The Draw tour shows you where everything for sketching lives. Like the Diagram Tour, it works on the real editor rather than screenshots: it spotlights each part of the dock with a highlight ring and a short explanation. It adds nothing to your canvas, takes under a minute, and you can leave at any point.
When It's Offered
The first time you work in Draw mode on a tab you can edit (switching a tab to Draw, or opening a document whose tab opens in Draw), a centred Getting started with Draw? card asks whether you'd like a look: Yes starts it, No dismisses it.
It's offered on its own, whether or not you've taken the Diagram Tour, which belongs to Diagram mode and never shows in Draw. The tour isn't offered on a locked tab, in an embed, or to someone who can only view or take part.
The offer appears once ever. However you answer (decline, skip midway, or finish), it won't come back on its own, and if you're signed in the answer follows you to every device. Turning on Power User Mode in Settings marks it as seen too.
What It Covers
- Pens and Tools: the dock's first group, with Select, the three markers, Text, the Path tool and the Eraser. Press the marker in your hand again to change its colour and width.
- Quick Style: the panel with colour and width for the marker in your hand, or for whatever you've selected, so you can restyle a stroke, shape or text after drawing it. If nothing is in hand, the tour picks up a marker to show it and puts it down again after. Not on a phone.
- Shapes: the sticky note and shapes pinned to the dock, and Shapes, which opens every shape and a search. You can pin your favourites to the dock.
- Board Settings: the cog, with the board's background, your cursor, and whether rough shapes you draw snap into clean ones.
Each step has Next, Back and Skip tour. The last card, You're ready to draw, links to the Draw mode article and ends the tour with Start drawing. If you leave Draw mode or switch tab mid-tour, it ends as skipped.
Replaying the Tour
Close Settings. If you're in Draw mode the tour's welcome card shows straight away; otherwise it's offered the next time you work in Draw.
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