good as possible.
Word has some very powerful features that will let you do this.
First, click on your picture, and the Format tab will appear.
Let's start by cropping the picture.
Click the Crop command, and you should now see some black handles around the edge of
the picture.
You'll need to put the mouse right over these handles, and if you're a little bit off, you
may accidentally grab one of the resizing handles.
Click and drag, and the parts that are going to be cropped out are kind of a dark gray.
When you're done, you can click the Crop command again, or you can just press Enter.
Just below the Crop command is a drop-down arrow, and if you go down to Crop to Shape,
you can choose what shape you want your picture to be.
I think I'll choose a rounded rectangle.
With some photographs, you'll need to make adjustments, and these commands can be found
in the Adjust group.
If you go to Corrections, you can Sharpen or Soften the image, and you can also adjust
the brightness and contrast.
As you hover over each one, you'll be able to see a live preview of it in the document.
I think this one looks good.
You can also adjust the color.
You can change the Saturation, the Color Tone, which controls how warm or cool the colors
appear, and you can also Recolor the image.
But for this picture, I'm just going to adjust the Color Tone.
Finally, you can add an Artistic Effect.
You probably don't want to add one to every single picture, but sometimes you may want
to use them to spice up your document.
Depending on what your picture looks like, some of these effects may look better than
others, so just hover over some of them until you find one that looks good.
Word also has a lot of different Picture Styles that are built in.
These are a great way to quickly change the appearance of your picture.
Before you send out your document, you may want to compress your pictures, and this is
also found in the Adjust group.
Compressing Pictures will make the file size smaller, so your document will be easier to
email or post on the web.
There's an option to Delete cropped areas of pictures.
When you crop a picture, it doesn't actually delete anything from the file, it just hides
the cropped areas.
So even though you're not using those areas, they're still taking up space in the file.
You can delete them by checking this option.
You can also change the resolution.
The Email setting has the lowest resolution, so that means it will have the smallest possible
file size.
Then click OK.
You may have noticed that the picture adjusted a little bit, and that's because compression
lowers the quality of the picture.
So there is a tradeoff, and you'll just have to decide whether you want to go with a higher
quality or a lower file size.