Pictures


Pictures are graphic objects. Word's Picture submenu (Figure 2) enables you to insert a variety of picture types:

  • Clip Art inserts clip art, pictures, sounds, and videos from the Clip Gallery.

  • From File inserts a picture file.

  • Horizontal Line inserts a picture file as a horizontal divider.

  • AutoShapes displays the AutoShapes and Drawing toolbars, which you can use to draw shapes and lines.

  • WordArt inserts stylized text.

  • From Scanner or Camera enables you to import images directly from a scanner or digital camera into a Word document.

  • Chart inserts a Microsoft Graph chart.

This section introduces all of these options.

Tip

  • When a graphic object is inserted into a Word document, it is usually inserted in the document layer as an inline imagean image that appears on text baselines like any other text. Some graphics, however, can be drawn on or moved to the drawing layer. This layer is separate from the text in your Word documents and text can wrap around it.


To insert clip art

1.

Position the insertion point where you want the clip art to appear (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Position the insertion point where you want the clip art to appear.


2.

Choose Insert > Picture > Clip Art (Figure 2) to display the Clip Gallery (Figure 4).

Figure 4. Browse Word's clip art by selecting a category.


3.

To browse through clip art, select a category on the left side of the window and scroll through the images that appear on the right side of the window.

or

To search for clip art by keyword, enter a word or phrase in the Search box at the top of the window and click Search. After a moment, search results appear in the window (Figure 5).

Figure 5. Clip art that matches your search criteria appears in the Clip Gallery window.


4.

Select the image you want to insert.

5.

Click Insert. The image appears at the insertion point as an inline image (Figure 6).

Figure 6. The image is inserted in your document.


Tip

  • If you click the Online button in the Clip Gallery window (Figure 4), Word launches your default Web browser and displays the Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media Home Page, where you can search for and download additional clip art.


To insert a picture from a file

1.

Position the insertion point where you want the picture to appear.

2.

Choose Insert > Picture > From File (Figure 2) to display the Choose a Picture dialog (Figure 7).

Figure 7. Use the Choose a Picture dialog to insert a picture from a file on disk.


3.

Locate and select the file that you want to insert.

4.

Click the Insert button.

The file is inserted as an inline image at the insertion point (Figure 8).

Figure 8. When you insert a picture from a file on disk, it appears at the insertion point.


Tips

  • The Choose a Picture dialog looks and works a lot like the Open dialog. The Open dialog is covered in detail in Chapter 2.

  • You can use the Enable pop-up menu (Figure 9) to specify the type of image file to display in the Choose a Picture dialog.

    Figure 9. The Enable pop-up menu lists all kinds of image file formats.



To insert a horizontal line

1.

Position the insertion point where you want the horizontal line to appear.

2.

Choose Insert > Picture > Horizontal Line (Figure 2) to display the Choose a Picture dialog (Figure 10).

Figure 10. The Choose a Picture dialog automatically looks in the Lines folder for horizontal lines.


3.

Locate and select the line that you want to insert.

4.

Click the Insert button.

The line is inserted as an inline image at the insertion point (Figure 11).

Figure 11. The line appears at the insertion point.


Tip

  • As shown in Figure 10, the Choose a Picture dialog automatically displays the contents of the Lines folder within the Clipart folder in the Microsoft Office 2004 folder.


To display the AutoShapes & Drawing toolbars

Choose Insert > Picture > AutoShapes (Figure 2). The AutoShapes and Drawing toolbars appear (Figure 12).

Figure 12. The AutoShapes and Drawing toolbars appear when you choose the AutoShapes command.


Tips

  • To display either of these toolbars individually, choose its name from the Toolbars submenu under the View menu. I tell you more about displaying and hiding toolbars in Chapter 1.

  • The Drawing toolbar has many options you can use to draw lines and shapes or format selected objectsfar too many options to cover in this book. Experiment with the toolbar on your own to see how you can use it in your Word documents.


To draw a shape or line

1.

Display the AutoShapes toolbar.

2.

Click a button to display a pop-up menu of shapes (Figure 13) or lines and choose the shape or line that you want to draw.

Figure 13. Click a button to display a menu of related shapes or lines.


3.

Move the mouse pointer, which becomes a crosshairs pointer (Figure 14), into the document window where you want to begin to draw the shape or line.

Figure 14, 15, & 16. Position the crosshairs pointer where you want to begin the shape (left). Press the mouse button and drag; the shape begins to emerge (middle). When you release the mouse button, the shape appears as a selected picture in the document (right).


4.

Press the mouse button down and drag. As you drag, the shape (Figure 15) or line appears.

5.

Release the mouse button to complete the shape (Figure 16) or line as an object on the drawing layer.

Tip

  • The shape or line pop-up menu that appears when you click an AutoShapes toolbar button (Figure 13) can be dragged off the toolbar to create its own toolbar (Figure 17).

    Figure 17. AutoShapes toolbar pop-up menus can be torn off to form their own toolbars.



To insert WordArt

1.

Display the Word document in which you want the WordArt image to appear.

2.

Choose Insert > Picture > WordArt (Figure 2).

3.

In the WordArt Gallery dialog that appears (Figure 18), click to select a WordArt style.

Figure 18. The WordArt Gallery dialog.


4.

Click OK.

5.

In the Edit WordArt Text dialog that appears next (Figure 19), change the sample text to the text that you want to display. You can also select a different font and font size and turn on bold and/ or italic formatting.

Figure 19. The default text in the Edit WordArt Text dialog.


6.

Click OK.

The WordArt image is inserted in your document's drawing layer and the Word-Art toolbar appears (Figure 20).

Figure 20. A WordArt image and the WordArt toolbar in a document window.


Tips

  • Once you have created a WordArt image, you can use buttons on the WordArt toolbar to modify it. The toolbar only appears when the WordArt image is selected.

  • In many instances, the WordArt image will appear right over document text (Figure 20). To move a WordArt image, simply drag it to a new position.


To insert a picture from a scanner or a digital camera

1.

Make sure the scanner software is properly installed and that the scanner is connected to your computer and turned on. Then place the image you wish to scan on the scanning surface.

or

Make sure the digital camera software is properly installed and that the camera is connected to your computer and turned on.

2.

In the Word document, position the insertion point where you want the picture to appear.

3.

Choose Insert > Picture > From Scanner or Camera (Figure 2).

4.

The Insert Picture from Scanner or Camera dialog appears (Figure 21). Use the drop-down list to choose a device.

Figure 21. Use this dialog to select the scanner or camera you want to access.


5.

Click Acquire.

6.

Follow the instructions that appear onscreen (Figure 22) to scan, select, or capture the image. When you are finished, the image appears in the Word document as an inline image (Figure 23).

Figure 22. Word displays a dialog you can use to scan, select, or capture the image. In this example, I'm using my Canon scanner to scan a photograph.


Figure 23. The picture appears at the insertion point.


Tips

  • If the Insert Picture from Scanner or Camera dialog (Figure 21) does not appear after step 3, your scanner or camera is either not installed correctly or not compatible with Word 2004. (iSight cameras, for example, are not compatible.)

  • The procedure in step 6 varies depending on the device you are using. Word may launch your scanner or digital camera software (Figure 22) to complete the scan or download an image. If so, consult the device's documentation for instructions.


To insert a chart

1.

Activate the Word document in which you want the chart to appear.

2.

Choose Insert > Picture > Chart (Figure 2). Word inserts a chart in the document and displays the corresponding Data-sheet and Chart windows (Figure 24).

Figure 24. Word inserts a default chart and displays the corresponding Datasheet and Chart windows.


3.

Edit the contents of the Datasheet window to reflect the data that you want to chart; the Chart window is updated automatically.

4.

When you are finished, choose Graph > Quit & Return to Document Name.

The chart is inserted in the document's drawing layer (Figure 25).

Figure 25. The completed chart appears in the document's drawing layer.


Tips

  • You can edit a chart by double-clicking it to display the Datasheet and Chart windows again.

  • You can format a chart by double-clicking its components in the Chart window to display various formatting dialogs.

  • The Graph application that works with Word is very similar to Excel's charting features. If you know Excel, Graph's interface should be very familiar to you.




MIcrosoft Word 2004 for Mac OSX. Visual QuickStart Guide
MIcrosoft Word 2004 for Mac OSX. Visual QuickStart Guide
ISBN: N/A
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Year: 2003
Pages: 199

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