Moving Pictures In Microsoft Word Mac
Jun 04, 2019 Almost everything you move from your Mac will work with corresponding Windows apps on your Surface, but files created with Apple apps (like GarageBand or iMovie) won’t work on Surface. IWork files can be exported and opened with Microsoft Office (Pages to Word, Keynote to PowerPoint, and Numbers to Excel). Press and hold command while you use the mouse or touchpad to select the shapes, pictures, or other objects that you want to group. Click the Shape Format tab. You can easily add all sorts of objects to a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac. Word 2011 gives you shortcuts to position an object in your document. Here’s how to get at them: Select an object. On the Ribbon’s Format tab, go to the Arrange group and click the Position button.
Microsoft Word has long been the default champion of the document editing world, that is until Google Docs came along. But Google too looked at Word for inspiration when it was trying to come up with an interface. One issue that users have faced continuously with Word is the inability to move around, and adjust, images and place them correctly in Word.
Word often gets far less credit than it deserves. While Microsoft has not made it easy to place and move images inside Word, it does offer ways to do so. The only trouble is finding the correct tools for the job. These options are not so obvious and can be hard to see if you don’t know where to look.
That is where we come in. I will show you how you can place images in Word without having to curse Microsoft while pulling your hair out or biting your nails off!
Let’s begin.
1. Set It Right
Before you begin adding images, you will have to configure Word to play nice with pictures. There are two settings to make it easier for you to add images that don’t act and look like text because it's not. Ideally, you should be able to drag it to wherever you want inside Word.
The Word comes with anchor points that by default are not visible. To make anchor points visible, open Word and click on File button. Then click on Options at the bottom of the screen in the sidebar.
Under Display, you will see Object anchors option that should be toggled on. You will now see the anchor symbol whenever you insert an image.
One more thing you need to do is change how Word places the image after adding it. Inside Word Options above, there is another tab called Advanced. Under Cut, copy, and paste, you will find Insert pictures as an option. Change it to Square.
Don’t forget to click OK every time you change a setting. That will tell Word to stop treating pictures as text but instead as images.
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Read More2. Add Them Correctly
Let’s begin with adding an image now. You can either drag and drop the image directly from your hard drive or use the Insert function. To do the later, click on Insert and select Pictures to launch a pop-up.
Navigate to the folder where you have saved the photo and double-click on it to add it to Word.
Word will treat the image as an object now instead of text, and you will see how the text flows around the picture now.
Here is how Word would have handled the image if you had not made the changes above.
You can now drag and move the image wherever you want in Word, and the text will adjust and wrap itself around it. You will also notice an anchor symbol appear on the left. This anchor symbol marks the location (paragraph to be more precise) associating to the image. This is more of a visual cue for beginners and is removable by changing the settings in Step 1.
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More often than not, when you insert an image, it ends up appearing somewhere else. You will notice that dragging images around Word document is a lot easier now, but it is still not perfect. This is where the Layout options come into the picture.
Just click once on the image you want to format to reveal resize and movable buttons around the image. Under the Layout tab, you will find the Position option. Click on it to find More Layout Options at the bottom.
The difference here is that you can be more precise about the layout and positioning of the image rather than selecting from a bunch of presets.
There are three tabs. The first one is Position where the image is set to the Absolute position to the right of Column horizontally, and below the paragraph vertically.
By default, Word documents are preset to be one column, but the above idea and the settings will work with two or more column layout too.
The second tab is Text Wrapping which you can use to place the image behind the text or front, and determine whether the text is wrapped from on sides or only left/right.
The last tab, Size, will let you resize the image so you can fit it in areas that can be otherwise difficult to manipulate. While you can also use the resize and angle handles we saw above, this tab will let lock aspect ratio and keep it relative to the original picture size.
At this point, I would suggest you play around with all the different Layout options to understand better how they work. While the resize and angle option that appears upon selecting the image can also be used, Layout formatting options will let you be more precise with your input values.
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Word is a pretty document editor, and though it is not the best word processor in the world, it still gets the job done. It also comes pre-installed with all Windows machines. Learning to work with it will go a long way in helping you get things done.
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The Crop tool has new behavior in Office 2011 for Mac. Instead of just one kind of crop, Office for Mac now has four kinds. To get at the additional crop tools, click the small triangle to the right of the Crop button.
Making a simple crop with Office 2011 tools
Here’s how to perform a simple crop:
Select the picture you want to crop.
On the Format Picture tab, go to the Adjust group and click the Crop button.
Dark crop handles appear in addition to the selection handles.
Drag the crop handles to select the area you want to keep.
Click away from the picture.
Everything except the selected area is subtracted from the picture.
Mask to Shape in Office 2011
With Mask to Shape, you start with a picture and finish with a shape that’s filled with your picture. Here are the steps to take:
Select a picture
Click the purple Format Picture button on the Ribbon.
Picture formatting tools display on the Ribbon.
In the Adjust group of tools, click the small triangle on the Crop button and choose Mask to Shape.
You’re presented with a submenu that takes you to the Shapes gallery.
Choose a solid, fillable shape.
Your picture is cropped to the chosen shape.
Some shapes have yellow diamonds, which you can drag to alter the shape’s appearance.
Crop to Fill with Office 2011 formatting tools
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With Crop to Fill, you start with a shape. You move the shape in a see-through mode over a picture from a file. The result is a shape filled with the see-through portion of your picture.
This example has fireworks. The Sun shape might give an interesting result. Here are the steps to take:
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From the Standard toolbar, choose Media Browser.
The Media Browser displays.
Choose the Shapes button on the Media Browser.
All Shapes display in the Media Browser.
Drag a solid shape to use as the cropping shape.
Right-click on the shape. From the pop-up menu, choose Format Shape.
The Format Shape dialog displays.
In the Format Shape dialog, choose the Picture or Texture tab and then click the Choose Picture Button.
The Choose a Picture file browser appears.
Choose the picture you want to crop and then click the Insert button to return to the Format Shape dialog.
You can select or deselect the Rotate with Shape check box.
Click OK to close the Format Shape dialog.
Your picture is now inside the shape.
On the Format Picture tab of the Ribbon, click the small triangle on the Crop button and choose Crop to Fill.
The shape is now in see-through mode. You can now adjust the crop shape and the picture size and position independently.
Drag the shape’s handles.
You can resize both the shape and the picture. Drag the handles on the shape to adjust the crop. Drag the picture handles and the picture itself to reposition it under the shape until you get just the crop you want.
Click away from the picture to display the cropped area.
Crop to Fit
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The Crop to Fit option lets you use a shape to crop a picture, and the shape can extend beyond the size of the picture. As with Crop to Fill, you start with a shape that is filled with a picture. But with Crop to Fit, you can make the crop constraint extend beyond the edges of the picture. The instructions are the same as for Crop to Fill in the previous heading, except you choose Crop to Fill in Step 8.