Insert a picture or clip art

 

To insert a picture or clip art in our document, we select the tab “Insert” ribbon.
And click the button “Picture” or “Clip Art”.

If you choose “Picture”, it opens a dialog where you navigate to the file that you want to insert.
Choose “Clip Art” and it will open the task pane “Clip Art” on the right of the application window.
In this example I choose “Clip Art”, so I click the button “clip Art”.

In the upper section of the task pane, you can type a keyword, for example “flower”, and click the “Go” button.
Word shows us all the clip arts that can be found.

If we point the mouse pointer over the picture then a downward pointing arrow is showed.
When we click on it, a drop-down menu with several options appears, which seem to be quite clear.
One is “Insert”.
Click when you’re happy with your choice.
To work faster you can double click on the clip art.

Whatever you do, the picture is inserted at the place where the cursor is in the document.

Remark

In the task pane that appears, you can choose from hundreds, perhaps thousands of clip arts that are included when you purchase Microsoft Word. Should it be that you still can not find what you want, then you can still look at the Microsoft site for some more. Click on the button “Clip Art on Office online” at the bottom of the pane.

How you have chosen for an image, the doesn’t matter.
In both cases, we now have contextual tab “Format”.

Want to change he location of the picture or clip art? Move your mouse pointer over the image,and when it changes into a four-pointer, click and drag.
By clicking and dragging on the image, we move it to the desired location.
When a picture is inserted, it is treated as a piece of text. The places the clip art, as it were between two words, or two letters.
This can be clearly seen in the picture above.
The space between the first line and the second line of text is the height of the image.
We can change this by pressing the “Text Wrapping” button.
This opens a drop-down menu with various options. For each of these options is an example of how the text will look with the image when clicked. So that seems obvious.
What I can say is that the first option, “In line with text”, is set by default.

I go for the option “Square”, this gives a more natural representation of the clip art.

By clicking and dragging the circles in the corners of the image, you can resize it.
By clicking and dragging the green circle at the top, you can rotate the image.

By clicking on the “Size” you get the desired dimensions for the image type.

The functions Position, Picture Shape, Picture Effects, Graphic Styles in the ribbon, all have a “Live Preview”.
So you can see how your document will be displayed before you even have the option clicked.

By clicking on the “Compress Pictures” we can compress the selected image(s) or all images in our document.
This is useful when you insert photos with a large scale size such as 1MB.
For example, you have a picture taken with your camera, and this is 1,500 MB.
When we insert it into our document, we will also document a minimum size of 1,500 MB.
Now, when we compress this picture, this will only be a fraction of MB of the original.
This is useful when the document is e-mailed to friends or colleagues.

We also have the options “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Recolor”. These seem to be clear.

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