With Microsoft Word, you can combine images and text to illustrate documents, and you can learn how to wrap text around images to change their main or default settings. This wikiHow teaches you how to use the Wrap Text feature in Microsoft Word to add captions to images.
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Part 1 of 3: Adding Images
Step 1. Click the area you want to add an image to
After that, a flashing vertical bar will appear right where you want to add an image.
The mouse is useful when you need to edit or add pictures in Microsoft Word because you can further control the size and shape of the picture when the picture is clicked and dragged
Step 2. Select Insert
This option is in the menu at the top of the page and will display a variety of advanced options when clicked.
Step 3. Select Pictures
With this option, you can insert a JPG, PDF, or other type of image stored on your computer (or drive) into your document.
Step 4. Click Photo Browser
With this option, you can choose a photo manager program on your computer.
Choose " Picture From File ” if the image file is saved on the desktop or another folder.
Step 5. Select the image you want to use
After opening the Add Image dialog box, open the folder that contains the desired image, and then click the image you want to add to the document once to select it.
Step 6. Select Insert
It's at the bottom of the dialog box. When finished, the image will be added to the previously selected location using the cursor.
Step 7. Review the image
Keep in mind that Word's default setting places images "within a line of text". This means that Word treats images as large letters or tall lines of text.
Text packaging allows you to place text around, above, or next to an image
Part 2 of 3: Packaging Text Around Images
Step 1. Click the image with the cursor
Once clicked, the menu Picture Formatting ” will appear on the ribbon at the top of the Word window.
If you click on an area outside the image, the image formatting menu will be hidden and you will be taken back to the text formatting menu
Step 2. Select Wrap Text
You may be able to find this option in the options group “ Arrange ” or tabs “ Advanced Layout ", tabs " Drawing Tools, or tabs " SmartArt Tools ”, depending on the version of Word used.
Step 3. Select the “Wrap Text” button
You can see this button in the top right corner of the image when the image is clicked. A drop-down menu showing several text packaging options will open.
Step 4. Select the text packaging option
Word offers several packaging options that you can choose from as needed:
- Click " Square ” if the added image is square and you want to place text around the image's square frame.
- Click " Top and Bottom ” to “lock” the image on its own line and enclose it with text at the top and bottom.
- Click " Tight ” if you want to place text around an image in a circle or other irregular shape.
- Click " through ” to adjust the area to be surrounded by text. This option is suitable if you want to combine text with an image, or don't want to follow the frame of an image file. However, this option is an advanced setting that is more complicated because you need to drag or drag the points on the image towards the inside or outside of the original frame.
- Click " Behind Text ” if you want to place an image as a watermark behind the text.
- Click " In Front of Text ” if you want to display the image over the text. You need to change the color of the text to keep the text readable.
Step 5. Reposition the image
After selecting a text packaging option, you can click and drag the image to change its position on the page. Word allows you to place an image where you want it, with text surrounding or over the image.
Step 6. Experiment with different text packaging options
Each image and project requires different text packaging options. Go through the options when you add a new image to make sure the text packaging is formatted properly.
Part 3 of 3: Removing Text Packaging
Step 1. Click the text field that contains the packaged text
After that, you can see markers for expanding and/or moving text fields, as well as editing text.
Step 2. Mark all the entries in the text, except the first letter that appears
It is important that you do not mark the first letter in the text as you will need to press the “Backspace” key. If all the letters are marked and you press the key, you may end up deleting the image inserted above the packaged text.
Step 3. Press the Backspace key
All text marked in the column will be deleted. Make sure you remove the first letter remaining after deleting all text so that the text packaging settings can be reset.
