Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Unless you're a graphics pro, you need to tweak just about every image you slap into your Word 2002 document. And, hoo boy, Word does some frustrating things with images. Fortunately, there's always some hidden way to fix things.
It's always best to work with images in Print Layout view, so choose View—>Print Layout from the menu.
Display the Picture toolbar: Choose View, Toolbars, Picture from the menu.
Select the image by clicking it.
When you click an image to select it, the image grows eight "handles," one for each side and corner.
Resize the image by grabbing (clicking) a handle and dragging it in or out.
Move an image around on the page by dragging it with the mouse. Drag in the center of the image.
If you need an image centered, put the image on a line by itself (a paragraph) and then center that line.
After you're done tweaking your graphic, just click the mouse on some text. This trick deselects the image and returns you to text-editing mode. (You may also want to close the Picture toolbar by clicking its X button.)
It's always best to work with images in Print Layout view, so choose View—>Print Layout from the menu.
Display the Picture toolbar: Choose View, Toolbars, Picture from the menu.
Select the image by clicking it.
When you click an image to select it, the image grows eight "handles," one for each side and corner.
Resize the image by grabbing (clicking) a handle and dragging it in or out.
Move an image around on the page by dragging it with the mouse. Drag in the center of the image.
If you need an image centered, put the image on a line by itself (a paragraph) and then center that line.
After you're done tweaking your graphic, just click the mouse on some text. This trick deselects the image and returns you to text-editing mode. (You may also want to close the Picture toolbar by clicking its X button.)
