Autoshapes in MS office appears to be a nice feature, so that one can draw some basic charts without resort to another software package. However, autoshapes are never the ideal tool to do this job, and there are plenty of free/opensource alternatives out there.
A major drawback is that they are so difficult to edit/manipulate, say, resize, caption, or move. One extra "new line" character may mess up the thousand page document. I would rather avoid autoshapes at all, at least for the large documents, and use some other software and then paste it into word document as a jpg or png. Or insert as an object. I can get a better chart and never have to deal with messy formatting.
Maybe it is just that I don't know how to use autoshapes?
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