When Extras is the backdrop there is an extra icon called 'works' which is the word and drawing application. You can get 76 characters across the screen when the font is schoolbook and the size is 12-point. Quicksketch brings up a drawing app that is is simpler than the big drawing app. You make your drawing and hit the insert button to put it in your document. It has the standard edit commands that also use the standard Mac shortcuts.
Scroll bars are nice and fairly fast.
The drawing app is very nice. It has some canned bitmaps and you are able to do grayscale, fonts, and shapes. Under the font menu bar you are able to pick fonts, sizes, and styles. Standard Edit menu bar. The drawing and word apps are easy to use and powerful.