Insert and edit shapes

Insert and edit shapes in Microsoft Word — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

4prompt heights
Open it in the interactive atlas →

The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

+
I need visuals for the client slide deck. In the document Sales Presentation June 2026, insert a…
I need visuals for the client slide deck. In the document Sales Presentation June 2026, insert a rectangle shape behind each section heading to serve as a banner, set fill color to brand blue RGB 0,92,185, remove outline, and size each to span the page width with 0.5 inch vertical padding. Name each shape to match its heading text. Save and make a copy named Sales Presentation June 2026 – shapes.docx.

Improve — make it easier to accept

+
Before I send this to design, make the shapes consistent and review-ready: align all section banner…
Before I send this to design, make the shapes consistent and review-ready: align all section banner shapes to the same vertical offset, ensure corner radii match the design system, convert any manually drawn arrows into standard arrow shapes so they scale cleanly, and flag any shape that overlaps body text. Keep fonts and spacing intact.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

+
I dragged a rectangle banner to resize and several paragraph blocks jumped position on the page; I…

I just resized a banner and text shifted unpredictably

I dragged a rectangle banner to resize and several paragraph blocks jumped position on the page; I did not anchor shapes deliberately. I worry the deck will break for the client when they open it on a different machine. How should I check and set anchors and wrapping quickly so the layout stays stable across systems?

Become — change the pattern

+
Across our proposals I spend hours normalizing banners, arrows, and icons because colleagues create…

I waste time fixing inconsistent shapes across docs

Across our proposals I spend hours normalizing banners, arrows, and icons because colleagues create shapes differently and break layouts. Where should I standardize process or set a habit so future decks come in consistent and need minimal manual cleanup?

Next to this one

Other word processor work people do in Microsoft Word.

Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
Copyright © LLOS.ai · 2026 — original pedagogy, voice, and design — all rights reserved.

The rest of the map

Same library, five ways in.