Inserting a Picture or Clip Art

A picture or illustration can be inserted in our document. In order to this, we select the “Insert” tab on the ribbon, and click the “Picture” or “Clip Art” buttons.

When you click the “Clip Art” button, the “Clip Art” task pane is displayed on the right side of the application window.

In the first section of the task pane (1) you can enter a keyword, such as “coffee”, and click the “Go” button.
Word shows us all clip arts that have been found.

When we move the mouse pointer over the picture, a arrow pointing downwards appears (2).
When we click on it, we see a drop-down menu with several options, which are all clear.
One option is “Insert”.
Click it when you’re satisfied with your choice.

Clicking on the “Clip art” works fatser.

Whatever you do, the “Clip art” is inserted at the place where the cursor is, in the document.
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In the task pane that appears, you can choose from hundreds or, perhaps thousands of clip arts that are included when you purchase Microsoft Word. Should it be that you still can not find your way, you can still go to the Microsoft site for other options.
Click on the “Find more at Office.com” button at the bottom of the pane.

I’ve not found any suitable “Clip art” for my “History of Coffee” query, so I’ll only add a “Picture”.
When you insert a “Picture” or “Clip art”, the extra tab “Format”, will be displayed.

Do you want to download the picture or clip art? If you move your mouse pointer over the “Picture” , it changes into a four-headed arrow.
By clicking and dragging on the “Picture”, we move it to the desired position.

When we insert a “Picture”, it is treated as a piece of text.
You can place the “Picture”, as it were, between two words, or two letters.
You can clearly see this in the above image.
The space between the first line and the second line of text, will be the height of the image.
We can change this, by clicking the “Text Wrap” button.
This opens a drop-down menu with various options. For each of these options, we have a preview of how the text will look along with the image, when clicked. So, this seems quite clear.
What I can say is that the first option, “In line with text”, is set by default.

I click the “Square” option, as this gives a more natural representation of the “Picture”.

You can resize the image, by clicking and dragging the circles in its corners.
By clicking and dragging the green circle at the top, you can rotate the image.

By clicking on the options in the “Size” section, you get the desired dimensions for the “Picture”.
The options, “Position”, “Picture Layout”, “Picture Effects”, in the “Picture Styles” section, in the ribbon, all have a “Live Preview”.
So you can still see how your document will look, even before you click the option.

By clicking on the “Compress Pictures” button, we can compress the selected picture or all pictures in our document.
This is useful when you insert photos whose size is in KBs.
For example, if you have taken a picture with your camera, which is 1,500 MB in size.
When we insert it into our document, we will have a document with a minimum size of 1,500 MB.
Now, when we compress this picture, it gets converted to a picture whose size is only a fraction of MBs of the original.
This is useful when the document is e-mailed to friends or colleagues.

We also have the “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Other colors” options. These seem quite clear.
The options in a Word 2010 document bring cheer to us becasue they are enormous and constantly expanding. New features in Word 2010 include, the “Color” and “Artistic Effects” options.
You will need a little time to try them all. You can always return to the original state by clicking the “Undo” button on the “Quick Access toolbar”.

I have create the image below in five minutes. I know, its not much, but it only took me five minutes to complete it.

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