5 Microsoft Word Picture and Text Wrapping Techniques To Master
Maintain and improve the quality of your Microsoft Word documents by making use of the software’s picture and text wrapping functions. There are several techniques one can undertake to do so- today we discuss some of the methods one can use to achieve such an effect:
1. Application
To wrap your text, you will first have to look for your picture tools or drawing tools. Locate your Format tab and choose the arrange group. This will enable you to choose the Wrap Text option. You can then choose your wrapping option, as well as the position of the image/object where you want to wrap the text. Select your picture/object and choose Position so that you can choose the position you want them to be located. If nothing is satisfactory, go on ahead to choose the More Layout options under wrap text.
2. Wrap Point Usage
Wrap points are the features that helps users adjust the way their text flows around the shape/image. You can actually make use of them to allow your text to wrap around the image shape. A good recommendation would be to apply wrap points on pictures that rely on transparent/white/solid backgrounds. Choosing your picture, drag it to the desired location and look for your Format tab. You can then choose wrap text and pick the tight option. Then under the format tab again, you can choose to remain background and gauge how the text has been wrapped.
3. Finetune
Fine-tune your efforts by manually setting wrap points whenever necessary. This can be easily achieved with the format tab. Choose wrap text and go on to select the edit wrap points option. You can finetune your wrap texts by dragging and sliding the black wrap points either closer or further from the image/shape.
4. Alignment
Text wrapping allows users to align their images/pictures in different ways- positioning in line with text, square centered, upper left and more! Choose the image or shape of your choice and look for the wrap text option under your format tab. You can choose in line with text, or shift it to the center and choose Square. If you wish to align it in the middle, take a further step by looking at your position tab. Under the horizontal section, choose the alignment function and change the field to centered instead.
5. Position
Once you have finished adjusting both your text and images into place with wrapping techniques in Microsoft Word, you can go the extra mile to ensure that their structure stays. This especially applies to pictures- since you wish to fix it in place and ensure that it will not be affected, choose the picture you want to stick. Locate your Format tab once again and choose the wrap text function again. You will then be able to find and pick the Fix position on page option.