When you move the picture around the page the text flows above, below and to the sides – or one side if you put your picture up against a margin. Square means that the text will wrap all the way around your picture (strictly speaking around the ‘bounding box’ – the rectangle that appears when you select it). (Alternatively, or in older versions of Word, right click on the picture and choose Wrap Text from the menu that appears.)ĭoing that brings up another menu which lets you choose the relationship between your text and picture. Once again, select the picture and go to the Picture Tools|Format ribbon but this time click the down arrow by Wrap Text.
In fact, in Word 2013 some of these appear in a little pop-up menu that you can call up by clicking the thing that looks like a rainbow drawn on lined paper which hovers at the top right of a picture when you select it.Īll wonderful, but what if you need more flexibility? Read on. If you select your picture, go to the Picture Tools|Format ribbon that appears and click the down arrow by Position, you will get a choice of nine places to place your picture without any fiddling around at all. However, you can change your picture to what is known as a ‘floating figure’ so you can put it where you like but, before we delve into all that, have a look at a handy shortcut in the ribbon versions of Word. In other words Word treats your picture like an outsize character and refers to this option as having the picture ‘In Line with Text’. That you would like the text to run right up to the picture and carry on straight after it.That means it goes immediately after the last thing you typed before choosing Insert|Picture and, when you try to move it, you can see a vertical line where it believes you want it to go. That you want the picture (or, to be precise, the bottom left of it) to be placed where the cursor is.Have you ever tried to put a picture in Word and found your text, which started at the top of the page, suddenly moves down? And then, as you type more, or change the size of the picture* to make it fit better, things move to unexpected places? Or the picture stays where it is, but leaves you lots of blank space on the page? Then, when you try to move it around, things only get worse and you end up with something like this: This is a tricky topic and one I’ve been wanting to write about for ages: Catherine does a lot of work with newsletters and other complex documents, which makes her the ideal person to write these posts for me! How do I combine text and pictures? Today and next week we have guest posts from Catherine Fitzsimons on placing images in Word documents.
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