Aligning a Picture with the Surrounding Text


Microsoft Office Specialist When you insert a picture into a document, it appears as a separate object and pushes any text it’s associated with out of the way. You can use the Layout tab of the Format Picture dialog box to help align pictures and wrap text around them. You can choose from seven different text-wrapping styles, and you can wrap text on both sides of a picture, on one side of a picture, or on the largest side of a picture. In addition, you can set the distance between the edge of a picture and the text itself.

You can specify that a picture be positioned as follows:

  • Absolutely. This type of positioning is determined by measurements that you set.

  • Relatively. This type of positioning is determined by the relationship of the picture to another element of the document, such as the margin, the page, a column, or a particular character.

After you have inserted and aligned a picture, you might need to add additional text that could upset the alignment. You can specify whether a picture should remain anchored in its position on the page or should move with its related text. You can also specify whether the picture should be allowed to overlap text.

In this exercise, you will modify the placement and text-wrapping attributes of a picture that has already been inserted into a document.

USE the AlignPics document in the practice file folder for this topic. This practice file is located in theMy Documents\Microsoft Press\Word 2003 SBS\WorkingGraphic\AligningPic folder and can also be accessed by clicking Start/All Programs/Microsoft Press/Word 2003 Step by Step.

OPEN

the AlignPics document.

  1. Click the logo for The Garden Company to select it.

    Format Picture

  2. On the Picture toolbar, click the Format Picture button.

    Troubleshooting

    If the Picture toolbar is not displayed, right-click the logo, and click Show Picture Toolbar on the shortcut menu.

    The Format Picture dialog box appears.

  3. Click the Layout tab, and then click Advanced.

    The Advanced Layout dialog box appears.

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  4. Click the Tight wrapping style, and in the Wrap text area, select the Both sides option. Then click the Picture Position tab.

  5. In the Horizontal area, select the Alignment option, click the down arrow to its right, and then click Right. Then click the down arrow to the right of the relative to text box, and click Margin.

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  6. Click OK to close the Advanced Layout dialog box, and then click OK again to close the Format Picture dialog box.

    The picture is repositioned so that it is aligned with the right margin, with the paragraph text wrapped to its left.

    Tip

    You might have to move the Picture toolbar out of the way to see the picture.

  7. Click to the left of the word The at the beginning of the first paragraph, and press [ENTER].

    The graphic moves with the text.

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  8. In the upper-left corner of the document, click the lower leaf graphic, and then click the Format Picture button on the Picture toolbar.

  9. Click the Layout tab, click the Advanced button, and then if necessary, display the Picture Position tab.

  10. In the Horizontal area, select the Absolute position option, type 7.75” in the box to the right, and then change the setting in the to the right of box to Page.

  11. In the Vertical area, select the Absolute position option, type 0.25” in the box to the right, and then change the setting in the below box to Page.

  12. In the Options area, select the Lock anchor check box, and then click OK in each dialog box to close them.

    The selected leaf graphic moves to the upper-right corner of the page.

  13. Now click the leaf graphic in the upper-left corner, and repeat steps 8 through 12, setting the Absolute position relative to the page to 0.25” in both the Horizontal and Vertical areas.

  14. Press [CONTROL]+[HOME] to move the insertion point to the left of the first blank paragraph mark, and press [ENTER] twice.

    The leaf graphics remain anchored in their absolute positions in the corners of the page.

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    Save

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

    CLOSE

    the AlignPics document.




Microsoft Office Word 2003 Step by Step
MicrosoftВ® Office Word 2003 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735615233
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 156

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