For now, though, the ones on the bottom and on the right-hand side don’t show because they, and some of the picture, are off the edge of the page. Can you see little white boxes in the middle of two of the edges and at one of the corners? These are called handles, and we’ll be using them in a moment to re-size the picture. In the case of the picture above, we’re not even seeing all of it. When you crop a picture you are effectively trimming some off, part of it disappears from view.When you resize a picture, you basically squash it so it looks the same but fits in a smaller space.There are two things you can do to make a picture take up less space on the page and it is important to be aware of the differences between them. How do I make the picture fit the space I have available? If you are using an earlier version of Word then some of the things now on the ribbon were on the picture toolbar and most of the methods that go through a right-click menu will also work, although the exact appearance of some of the menus will vary. I’m working in Word 2013, which has significant improvements to picture handling, but I have included what to do in Word 2010 where this is different (the same instructions are good for Word 2007). But before you can begin to think about getting an image into the right place on a page, you need to make it roughly the right size so you can see how the text will fit around it - and that’s what this post is all about.
Nowadays even fairly basic phones can beat that so it’s highly likely that when you try to paste a photograph into a page of text it isn’t going to fit at first and you’ll end up with something like this:Ī picture that you wanted to be an illustration taking up a whole page by itself and wonky on it too!Įver since I first started using Word, I’ve been finding ways of getting pictures and text to sit together exactly the way I want them to: first as a teacher making worksheets then doing layout for community magazines. The photos from it were 640×480 pixels which meant that they were little more than thumbnails if you tried to print them at a print resolution of 300dpi. My first digital camera came as a freebie with a new computer sometime around 1998.
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