How to Insert Illustrations in the Text of Your Article or Paper for the Electronically Challenged
Simple Instructions for Inserting Illustrations in Your Documents
Wouldn’t it be nifty if you could write an article or work or school paper with illustrations throughout the text? Well believe it or not you can do this using your Microsoft Office Word program. You can upload pictures, grafts just about any illustration you desire any place on the text of your document you want. Here’s how you do it.
First go to your favorite photo management soft ware. This might be windows photo gallery or Picasa, windows paint or some other program. Open the picture you want. If you don’t have a picture or illustration you like do a search on goggle for whatever illustration you’re looking for and download it. Check out my article “How to download picture from the web for the electronically challenged” if you don’t know how to do this.
When you open the picture you want to use will have a menu choice for edit at the top of the window. Click on edit and a drop down menu will appear. Choose copy. You have now copied the picture.
Return to your document. Place your curser in the approximate area you wasn’t your picture to be and right click your mouse. The picture will appear. It is likely to be much larger than you need it to be in your text. To reduce it, left click on the picture. You will see white dots at each corner Place your cursor over one of the corner white dots until a line with an arrow on both ends appears. Push down and hold down your left mouse button. A crosshair symbol will appear where the arrow was.You can now reduce or increase the size of your picture by moving the cross hair symbol.
On the side of your picture when you left click on it beside the white dots on the corners will be white squares on the side. These squares distort the picture making it tall and thin or wide and fat. On the top of your picture will be green round dot. If you scroll your mouse over this a round arrow will appear. Hold down your left mouse button the single circular arrow turns in to four circular arrows and if you twist your mouse to the right or left presto you change the angle of the entire picture!
To place your picture in your text, click on the “picture tools” at the top of your page. This should appear when you left click on the picture. You’ll have several choices. Choose the “text wrapping” icon choice which looks like a dog on a lined piece of paper. A Drop down appears. Choose “tight”. The default choice is in line with text. This doesn’t work well because it treats the picture as though it were a giant letter. Tight is the best choice for inserting illustrations in a document.
Once you’ve chosen tight, you can left click on the picture with your mouse and drop and drag the picture wherever you want it in your document. You can play with the other choices in your tools section for different effects. To caption your picture you follow this same process only choose text box instead of picture and text box tools instead of picture tools.
- By Rye Catcher | Associated Content
- Naiomi Solomon
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