MICROSOFT WORD - Drag and drop

single image into your Microsoft Word

document
1. Grab your image drag it to where want it to go in your document and then you can simply resize it by
clicking on the image resizing it but unfortunately it doesn’t quite do what you wanted to do which is a
very simple and easy fix you simple go to picture format go along to wrap text go down to tight and you
can I simply move your image around your document and the text will simply move accordingly so that’s
the quick and easy way to insert an image into your document. How if you’d like to pre-plan where your
image goes you haven’t quite decided which image you want to use the best way that I have found is to
insert a table so if I decide I want to put my image halfway down this document I simply put the cursor
where I want my image to go I press insert table and go across to insert the table cell. Now if I was to
drag and drop an image into there right now it’s going to again explode across the page it’s just not all
we want so we want to set this to the dimensions of the photograph so generally images that come out
of a camera are six by four if we go to table layout to the top here and we set our height four and our
width to six we’re now left with lovely box however if I was to try and drag and drop my image into there
now it’s going to do exactly the same explode across the play so we need to just set this cell so it doesn’t
move, so first we need to go up to is layout we can go down to autofit and this one here says fix column
with that will fix the width of your column now to fix the height you simply highlight the table by clicking
on this square icon here right click go down to table properties go to row and then on this check box
here you simply go down to the drop down menu click exactly and that should enable you to drag and
drop your image and it will resize according to your cell however the image doesn’t quite make that
reach the edge of this cell which could be quite annoying if you then decide to get rid of these gridlines
around the edge and you’ve got a an image that doesn’t quite reach the margins of your page so in order
to get rid of these margins, you’re going to have to take your image back out unless you haven’t put it
there anyway go up to cell margins and you will see that the left and right margins are set to 19
centimeters so if we simply take this down to 0 check ok and now should be able to simply drag and
drop into there and it will fit beautifully. now the other thing you can see is that the text again is not
moving correctly around this table and this white space is left here so we simply go up and highlight our
table again we right-click go down to so it’s highlighted the picture we go to the table we right click go
down to table properties and where it says text wrapping we simply wrap it around and there you have it
so if I take the image out now you’ve left with this lovely text box where if you did decide to type more
tense you’ll see that it doesn’t move how it refers to type something up here you will see that the text
box although the table begins to move. Now that’s not what we want to happen excuse my appalling
writing. So what you need to do is to highlight the box again right click go down to table properties and
in here we have a positioning box and we have options here and you need to uncheck move with taps
this basically saying is when you’ve writing anything the box will move down the table will move down
the document and if you want it to remain exactly where it is in the document you have to uncheck this
box here check ok. Check ok again and now you should simply be able to drag and drop this into your
document. So what you can do is do this several times throughout your document that will allow you to
set up different images in your document and they will remain there and you can type around it move
things around but that image and that table will remain where it is at the time so if I just quickly show
you how to insert another table let’s say I am going to do on the right hand side here this time I am going
to insert my box again I am going to go u and I want it again to be 456 I am going to autofit fix my
column width I am going to also fix my column height I am also going to reduce my cell margins so
they’re at zero if I drag and drop my image into there now then it fits but the text is a problem so again
highlight it table properties go down to around join the text wrapping section and I am going to go to
options, I am going to go up to positioning and I am going to uncheck movies text now I want my box
here to go over to the right-hand side of my document so I am going to go up to the alignment section
here click write this is under the table properties it’ll come up when you right click on your table and
press ok. So that now fires it over to the other side of the document so now if I was to take my images
out you can see I am left with the document with two tables that are fixed in my document the height
and that you can adjust that the text boxes if you want it to remain the same dimensions four by six if
you click on the corner here and hold the shift key down of it’s a bit fiddly hold the shift key down what it
will do it will expand that box at the same dimensions so now if I was to drag and drop my image into
that box it would again do exactly the same and it would to fit the table now if you decide if once you’ve
got your images into your document that you wanted to get rod pf the gridlines and didn’t want these
black lines around it you simply click on your table you go you go up to table design you go along to
borders down to no border and then you’re left with a very neat image which you can then take the
round and text will simply move around the box so I hope that’s helped.