Inserting and Modifying a Picture | MicrosoftВ® Office Word 2003 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))

Microsoft Office Specialist You can insert scanned photographs or pictures created in almost any program into a Word document. Pointing to Picture on the Insert menu displays a submenu that you can use to specify the source of the picture, as follows:

To insert a picture from the clip art collection that comes with Word, you click the Clip Art command on the Picture submenu or click the Insert Clip Art button on the Drawing toolbar, which opens the Clip Art task pane. The Microsoft Office System includes hundreds of professionally designed pieces of clip art that you can use in your documents. For example, you can insert clip art pictures of scenic backgrounds, maps, buildings, or people.
To insert a picture from a file on your hard disk, removable disk, or network, you use the From File command on the Picture submenu.
If you have a scanner connected to the computer that you are using, you can scan and insert a picture using the From Scanner command. You can also use this command to insert a picture from a digital camera that’s connected to the computer.

After you insert any picture into a document, you can click it to open the Picture toolbar, and then modify the image by using the Picture toolbar buttons.

Button name	Button	Description
Color		Changes the picture to grayscale, black and white, or washed out.
More Contrast		Increases contrast.
Less Contrast		Reduces contrast.
More Brightness		Increases brightness.
Less Brightness		Reduces brightness.
Crop		Crops the picture.
Rotate Left 90		Rotates the picture to the left.
Line Style		Changes a line’s weight and style.
Compress Pictures		Reduces the file size of pictures.
Text Wrapping		Controls the wrapping of text around a picture.
Format Picture		Opens the Format Picture dialog box, where you can change features such as colors and lines, image size, text wrapping, cropping, color, brightness, and contrast. (This button renames itself depending on what’s selected.)
Set Transparent Color		Makes selected colors in the picture see-through. This feature works on bitmap images that don’t already have transparent areas. It also works on some clip art.
Reset Picture		Returns the picture to its original state.

The picture toolbar also includes an Insert Picture button that you can use to insert additional images.

In this exercise, you will insert and modify clip art.

USE the InsertPics document and GardenCo graphic in the practice file folder for this topic. These practice files are located in the My Documents\Microsoft Press\Word 2003 SBS\WorkingGraphic\InsertingPic folder and can also be accessed by clicking Start/All Programs/Microsoft Press/Word 2003 Step by Step.

OPEN

the InsertPics document.

Press the [ENTER] key, and then press the key to position the insertion point in a blank line at the beginning of the document.
On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.

The Insert Picture dialog box appears.

Insert Picture

Tip
You can also click the Insert Picture button on the Drawing toolbar to open the Insert Picture dialog box.
Navigate to the Microsoft Press\Word 2003 SBS\WorkingGraphic\InsertingPic folder, and double-click the Gardenco file.

The picture is inserted into the document at the insertion point.
Click The Garden Company logo to select it, and if the Picture toolbar is not displayed, point to Toolbars on the View menu, and click Picture.
Point to the handle (the little black square) in the lower-right-corner of the graphic, and when the handle changes to a double arrow, drag up and to the left until the graphic’s shadow frame is about at the 4-inch mark on the horizontal ruler and about the 1¹/₄-inch mark on the vertical ruler.

Color
On the Picture toolbar, click the Color button, and then click Washout.

The picture’s colors decrease in intensity.

Less Brightness
On the Picture toolbar, click the Less Brightness button four times to reduce the brightness of the picture.

More Contrast
On the Picture toolbar, click the More Contrast button two times to give the picture more contrast.
Scroll down the document until you see the organization chart, and click the blank area to the left of the top box.

The organization chart is selected, and the Organization Chart toolbar appears.

Insert Clip Art
On the Drawing toolbar (not the Organization Chart toolbar), click the Insert Clip Art button.

The Clip Art task pane appears.

Troubleshooting
If the Picture toolbar obscures the Clip Art task pane, drag the toolbar’s title bar to move it out of the way.
Click the Search for text box of the Clip Art task pane, type plant, and then click Go.

The task pane displays graphics associated with the keyword plant.

Close
In the task pane, click the drawing of the green leaf, and then click the task pane’s Close button.

The picture is selected in the document, as indicated by the circular handles surrounding its frame.
Point to the lower-right handle of the picture, and when the pointer changes to a double arrow, drag up and to the left until the picture is about ¹/₂ inch by¹/₂ inch in size.
Point to the leaf picture, and when the pointer changes to a four-headed arrow, drag the picture to the left of the Karen Berg box in the organization chart.
Hold down the [CONTROL] key, click the leaf picture, and drag a copy of it to the right of the Karen Berg box.
Click the blank area to the right of the organization chart to deselect it.

Save
On the Standard toolbar, click the Save button to save the document.

CLOSE
the InsertPics document.