Insert, move, and resize

Pick a type, then click where it belongs. After that you drag: the body to move it, a handle to resize it.

Place a region

1. Open the Insert tab, or Plots for a chart.
2. Choose the type. The pointer becomes a crosshair and the status bar names what it is about to place. Esc cancels.
3. Click the page. The region appears at that point, snapped to the grid.

You can skip the ribbon for the two types you place most. Click empty paper with no insert mode active and a blue insertion cross drops. The first character you type starts a Math region there. Double-click empty paper instead and you get a Text region, bottom-left at the click. Ctrl+Shift+T (Command-Shift-T on a Mac) also inserts text at the pointer.

Picture opens a file picker, but you get the same region by pasting an image (Ctrl+V ) or dropping an image file straight onto the canvas. See Pictures. Once a region exists, copy and paste is usually quicker than inserting another one from scratch.

Move

Click the region and drag it. Aim for its border or an empty part of its frame rather than the middle of a math or text field, or you will place a text caret instead of starting a drag. The block snaps to the grid as it goes. A whole multi-selection drags together from any of its members.

To open up space part-way down a busy page, click empty paper where you want the gap and press Enter. Every region that meets or sits below that line moves down one grid row. Backspace pulls them back up by the same step.

Resize

With the region selected, drag a corner or edge handle. Math and text wrap or clip according to the region's wrap setting. Plots and tables grow with the frame, so widen a chart when the axis labels start to crowd.