I really think the Teacher of the Year
news item needs a picture of mr. doe it
is our top story to insert a picture
into a document place your insertion
point where you want the image to appear
and select the insert tab in the
illustrations group click the picture
command the insert picture dialog box
will appear locate your image file
wherever you have it stored on your
computer I have a good one of him stored
on my desktop you can use a drop-down
menu or the menu options on the left of
the dialog box to locate your image
select the picture and click insert and
it will appear in your document whoa my
picture is way too big but that's not a
problem I can resize it just like I can
clip art shapes and other illustrations
just make sure the picture is selected
and left click one of the corner sizing
handles while holding down the left
mouse button move your mouse so that the
image is smaller the corner sizing
handles are great because they allow you
to resize the image but still keep it
same proportions I've inserted my
picture into the document but it doesn't
look very good here I really want to
have it near the text rather than
underneath it to see all the picture
formatting options first select the
picture look closely and you will notice
the new picture tools format menu that
appeared on the ribbon
from here I can format the picture in so
many different ways let's start by
wrapping the text around the image so
that the picture of mr. doe
doesn't appear underneath the text to do
this click the text wrapping commands in
the arrange group let's just love click
a menu option and move the image around
to see how the text and image look all
right let me try tight I want the text
to appear near the image but not over it
so this might be a good choice I also
want the text to appear on the
and the image on the right so let me
move this here that's good I like the
way it looks so far if you can't get
your text wrapping to work click more
layout options at the bottom the
advanced layout dialog box appears and
from here you can make some additional
changes about how to wrap the text
before I continue formatting my image
I'm going to add a little space between
my newsletter title and the teacher of
the year section this gives me a little
extra space for formatting sometimes you
may find that there is part of an image
that you want to crop for example in
this image I really like to cut out a
little of the chalkboard and mr. dough's
folded arms and really have the image be
primarily a head shot just select the
image the format tab and the crop
command the black cropping handles will
appear just let's click and move a
handle to crop the image quarter handles
will crop the image proportionally but I
really want to cut out some of the
chalkboard so I'll move this one in and
crop a little off the bottom too
now click the crop command again to
deselect this tool after you've cropped
you can still resize the image let's
make it a little bit bigger there that
looks good
cropping and resizing an image doesn't
change the image file size have you ever
tried to email a picture to someone only
to find out the file size was too big to
send the same thing can happen with
documents you really need to watch the
file size of your images so that you can
store and send your documents easily you
can decrease the file size of an image
by compressing the image to compress an
image you'll first need to select it on
the format tab click the compress
pictures command in the adjust group a
dialog box appears
let's click the options button to access
the compression setting dialog box here
we can see that by default word
automatically compresses pictures when
you save the file and that parts of an
image that our crops are
it let's leave those default settings as
they are below you can select the target
output print is selected by default if
you are delivering a document online you
may want to switch the output to screen
I'm happy with these default settings
though so let's just click OK and then
I'm going to click OK in the compress
pictures dialog box we've got some other
important commands in the adjust group
if you're not happy with the picture you
can click the change picture command and
select a new picture from your computer
or you can click reset picture to go
back to the original image you inserted
the brightness and color commands allow
you to adjust the image in different
ways this is great because for minor
adjustments you don't have to use a big
photo editing package you can also click
the recolor command to access some fun
options if you're printing in black and
white you may want to change your images
to black and white you can do so much
with pictures in Word 2007 way more than
in previous versions one of the fun
things you can do is reshape your
picture what do I mean by reshape here
I'll show you make sure your picture is
selected and then click the picture
shape icon on the format tab you can
select many different types of shapes
some may not make sense like this plus
sign or others may just be funny like
this sunshine and then some may look
really good and work with your document
when you find one you like just left
click it to select it one of my favorite
things about the new picture tools are
the great picture Styles just make sure
your picture is selected and that you
were on the format tab click through the
various styles and see how they affect
your picture pretty cool huh
if you want to see all your picture
style options click the more arrow in
picture styles to see all the options
this one is good I like this beveled
rectangle just left-click it to select
it you know I like to see what my image
looks like with the border I can choose
one of the border picture styles or I
can format my picture manually to add a
border manually left click the picture
border command and selects a color that
looks good but I think the line should
be heavier select the picture border
command again and select weight from the
menu
I like the six point weight so I'll just
select it yeah it looks pretty good
I think mr. dill will be proud of what
I've done with this portrait as you can
see there are lots of things you can do
with pictures with the picture
formatting options in Word 2007 there's
no need for high-tech editing software
you can easily do quality picture
editing in a flash take a while and
explore all the picture options and see
how you might be able to use them in
your documents