This short video shows how to insert images in Word and wrap text around them. It complements the How to Wrap Text Around a Picture in Word tutorial. The video includes captions. And the transcription with timestamps appears below the video.
The tutorial was created using Creative Commons images which you can find using Online Pictures in Microsoft Word. This allows you to duplicate the page I built.
Video Transcript
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I thought I would do a short demo showing how you can add text to a page, an image, and then wrap the text around it.
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In this example, what I’m going to do is add some random text, two paragraphs and an image with the caption, and then I’ll apply some picture styles to it.
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For this example, I’m using Microsoft Office 365, but these steps should work in earlier versions.
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And to start, I’m going to use the =rand function.
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The reason I’m doing this is because I’m lazy and don’t want to type text.
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I’m going to tell Word I want two paragraphs and those paragraphs should have five sentences each. Next I’ll hit my enter key.
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Now I have my starting text. I need to determine where I want to place my image. I’m going to put it right after that first paragraph.
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Now I’ll click insert, click picture. I’m going to choose online pictures so you can play along.
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I’ll choose cats, and then I’ll choose this first kitten. And you can see my selection is made and I have a one on my insert button. I’ll click insert.
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You can see that little cat is now full width, which is not what I want. I need to Resize the image.
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One of the other reasons I chose online images is because they come in with this particular caption.
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What I want to do is to Resize this as one unit. I don’t want to disassociate the image from the caption.
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And right now I’m in the perfect state because I’ve got the sizing box going around both the image and the caption, and I’ve only got one control to rotate this way.
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I know that everything’s together. If I started clicking around, you can actually disassociate the image from the caption.
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Now some people are used to just grabbing a corner to Resize an image and trying to maintain the aspect ratio.
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Maybe it’s me and my mouse precision, but I find sometimes it just doesn’t work for me. The kitten would look like it got squished or inflated.
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What I prefer to do is to use the controls here. If we go to the size group and then over to the corner, you’ll see a downward arrow. And if you click, you get advanced options.
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And since I pulled in the caption, I have another tab for text wrapping. If you’re playing along with me on this and you don’t see three tabs, then you may have disassociated the caption from the image.
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The other thing that you want to make sure is you want to keep your aspect ratio the same.
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You want to click that box that says to lock aspect ratio. You’ll see right now it’s at 100% and 100%. Now what I’m going to do is just change and say, okay, I want the image to be two and a half inches, and then I’ll press my tab key.
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Notice how it has figured out the proper width. Again, you can see we’ve got parity between our height and our width.
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The image now is about 57% of what the starting image was. I’ll click OK. Now you can see I do have room on the right and I can actually start to have the text wrap.
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And again, I’m in my perfect state. I’ve got the sizing box going around both the kitten image and the caption. I’ll click layout options and I’m going to choose square.
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These images here represent how the image and the text works, such as whether the text is in front or behind.
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I’m going to choose square because I want the image to wrap to the sides. But if you look at it, it’s a little bit cramped.
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The way I can get around this is to use picture styles.
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You might think you could highlight this paragraph and then try to indented or format the paragraph and change the margins, but that doesn’t work.
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Click the image again and you want to make sure you are on picture format. Now what we want to do is apply a picture style.
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And the thing is, there’s actually more styles than what show.
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Click this little down control and/or the More button. You’ll get twice as many options.
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These options give you a representation of how the style will look. And as you Hover over each of these icons, you can see the kitten change.
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This one happens to be an Oval and this one has a black frame. If you notice on this one in the black frame, you can see how the text with the shadow has already started to wrap.
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I’m going to click it for the time being. Here’s my second paragraph a little bit different than or quite a bit different from where we actually started. And that might be the effect that you want.
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But the good news is if you don’t like it, you can click again. I’ll go back up to the styles and then choose one that I prefer. I am just going to click this one the drop shadow. And that gives me the appearance of actually more room.
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Now you know how you can wrap text around your images.
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Have fun and go play.
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And thanks for watching.
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You can find the full tutorial at https://www.timeatlas.com/wrapping-text-microsoft-word/