While Word does not let you type directly onto a pasted picture, it does let you add text to AutoShapes.
Follow these steps to turn your picture into an AutoShape so you can type directly on it. By turning your picture into an AutoShape, you can type directly on it. Follow these steps:. You can position the text within the shape by adding blank lines, spacing, indents, or any other paragraph formatting you wish.
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Follow these steps: Right-click any toolbar. Click Drawing. Click AutoShapes on the Drawing toolbar. Point to Basic Shapes and click Rectangle. Click and drag in your document where you want to position the rectangle. Because your mouse isn't a precise input tool, drawings you make with the Scribble tool are likely to look, well, scribbled. Toggle navigation. See also. Word provides these categories of predrawn AutoShapes: L ines?
Word provides an extensive library of predefined graphic AutoShapes. TIP Unfortunately, Set AutoShape D efaults works only for a single document; if you open a new document, you will have to set them all over again. NOTE If you find that Word's flowchart tools are insufficient to meet your needs, two popular but expensive alternatives from Microsoft are the Visio drawing program and Microsoft Project.
NOTE You can't convert a closed freehand shape to a text box, so you can't add text inside it, except by superimposing a separate text box on it.
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Getting Help. Activating Word or Office. Chapter 3. Essential Document Creation and Management Techniques. Creating New Documents. Using the New Document Task Pane. Basic Editing. Saving Your Documents.
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Opportunities to Use Graphics Effectively. Working with Microsoft Clip Organizer. Finding Other Sources of Images. Editing Images to Serve Your Needs. Adding Alternative Text to Your Image. Using WordArt. Here you can change the following properties:. Click the colored box below and select the necessary color from the available color sets or specify any color you like:.
Currently, the following textures are available: canvas, carton, dark fabric, grain, granite, grey paper, knit, leather, brown paper, papyrus, wood. The Stretch option allows you to adjust the image size to fit the autoshape size so that it could fill the space completely.
The Tile option allows you to display only a part of the bigger image keeping its original dimensions or repeat the smaller image keeping its original dimensions over the autoshape surface so that it could fill the space completely. Note : any selected Texture preset fills the space completely, but you can apply the Stretch effect if necessary.
To change the advanced settings of the autoshape, right-click it and select the Advanced Settings option in the menu or use the Show advanced settings link on the right sidebar. The 'Shape - Advanced Settings' window will open:. Inline - the shape is considered to be a part of the text, like a character, so when the text moves, the shape moves as well. In this case the positioning options are inaccessible. If one of the following styles is selected, the shape can be moved independently of the text and positioned on the page exactly:.
Square - the text wraps the rectangular box that bounds the shape. Tight - the text wraps the actual shape edges. Through - the text wraps around the shape edges and fills in the open white space within the shape. So that the effect can appear, use the Edit Wrap Boundary option from the right-click menu. Top and bottom - the text is only above and below the shape.
In front - the shape overlaps the text. Behind - the text overlaps the shape. If you select the square, tight, through, or top and bottom styles, you will be able to set up some additional parameters - distance from text at all sides top, bottom, left, right.
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