you
when you insert a picture into your
document it usually rearranges your text
and it's kind of hard to move it where
you want it to go let's take a look at
the text wrap features so that you can
move your image where you want it to go
on your page scroll down to page two and
click right before the word in go up to
the insert tab and click on picture
navigate to your exercise files and
we're in chapter one and I have an image
of oil bottles if you don't have our
exercise files you can use any image you
like and I'll click insert
now when you insert a graphic into your
document by default it acts like a giant
letter a notice that the text is aligned
at the bottom of the picture and there's
a lot of space up into the side so what
we're going to do is we're going to
click on the picture and then the
picture tools format ribbon appears
we're going to come over here to the
wrap text button I'll click on it and I
can see that it comes in in line with
text meaning that it's basically a giant
letter A so I'm going to start by
changing this to square what Square does
is two things first it allows the text
to wrap up next to the image and it also
allows you to pick up your image right
in the middle and drag it anywhere that
you want it to go on your screen so this
is one of my most frequently used text
wraps but there's other options as well
when I click back on wrap text there's
an option for tight which will force
your text to flow around the shape of
your object and through which will allow
your text to flow in the middle of your
object now for both those two objects we
didn't see it happen and that's because
in a few minutes we're going to need to
edit our wrap points but let's take a
look at the rest of our options first
top and bottom will force your text to
the top and the bottom of the image but
never allow it to flow on the sides
behind text will allow your text to flow
over the picture and in front of text
puts your picture over the text and it's
literally blocking it out so let's start
with tight I'll click on tight on the
drop down and then I'm going to go back
to the wrap text button again and I'm
going to tell it that I want to edit the
wrap points and notice now that my box
boundaries turn red and they have a
black dot I can pick up these boundaries
and drag them closer to the image so
the text flows around it I can move them
up I can also create new rap points when
I hold my cursor over the red line I get
this little square with some lines on it
and I can pull it in towards the bottle
which will allow the text to flow in the
same curve as the bottle if I pick up my
picture and move it and then I'm going
to go back to the wrap text button again
I'm going to tell it that I want to edit
the rap points I can then adjust my rap
points even further if I want to move
the text out I'll drag the rap point to
the right and if I want to move it in
I'll pull it in so that's how to make a
picture tight if I want the text
actually flow through the center of the
graphic I'm going to change my rap to
through and then go back to editing my
rap points I'll click here and move it a
little bit to give it a dot and now I'm
going to move over a little bit and pull
down now my text starts to flow in the
middle I need this part to come back up
over the bottle but I want this part to
come further in so you can keep playing
with these rap points until you get it
perfect now after I get my rap point set
I have to watch out for my text what I
don't want to do is orphan any words in
the middle so I'm going to click on my
picture and try and fine-tune this a
little bit I like to move the picture
not by picking it up and dragging it but
by using my up down left and right
arrows until the text flows smoothly the
biggest thing to watch out for are any
words like this where I have a year all
by itself it's going to be really hard
for the reader to be able to read extra
virgin olive oil production winning
awards year after year so I want to make
sure I'm going to move that up a little
bit until the text flows a little bit
better once you have it where you like
it you can click off when we first
inserted the picture it really distorted
my text most of the time I like my
graphics square so you can set that as
the default so that every time you
insert a picture it starts a square and
then you can change it from there
to do that go up to the file tab go down
to options click on the advanced button
and then look down here at the bottom of
cut copy and paste right here it says
insert paste pictures as and it defaults
to inline
texts I like to change this to square
and then click OK now if I scroll down
further in the manual and just for kicks
insert that same image again insert
picture olive oil bottles notice that
this time it instantly came in swear and
I can start manipulating the picture to
my heart's content floating your images
anywhere you want on the page and
controlling how the text wraps around
them will allow you to create dynamic
interesting page layouts