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More About Working With JPG Files in Word

By: Jan K., The Proofer

Once you've inserted a jpg (picture) file into a Word document, you can change the size of the picture and add text. Here are easy-to-follow instructions, along with illustrated instructions that show the computer screens you'll be working with.

If you've missed my tutorial on how to insert a jpg file into a Word document, please go to:

http://readingroom.janktheproofer.com/insertjpgintoword.htm

To accompany this article, I've done an illustrated tutorial that will show you exactly what to do! So, before you go any further, go to the illustrated instructions:

http://readingroom.janktheproofer.com/morejpg.doc

The instructions will open in a new window for your convenience. These instructions contain several pictures, so it might take several (long) seconds for the page to open. Once the page does open, then allow a few extra seconds for all the pictures to appear.

Following along with the illustrated instructions, here's how to work with a jpg file that you have inserted into a Word document.

1. Open a word document and hit the Return key once or twice. This will give you a place at the top of the document, just in case you decide that you want to go back to add some text before the first picture.

2. Insert the jpg file into the document (using the instructions provided in my other tutorial, as mentioned above).

3. Now you can change the size of the picture. Click anywhere on the picture itself. When you do so, small blocks will appear at the corners, and in the middle of each side.

4. Move the cursor over one of these blocks at the corner of the picture, and the cursor should change to a double-headed arrow, on a slant. Now click, and hold down the mouse button, and the cursor changes again to a plus sign (+). Drag the mouse toward the center of the picture, and the picture will get smaller.

5. In this example the picture is positioned “flush left”---or hard up against the left margin of the page. You can change that. Click on the picture, and then click on one of the three margin-changing icons that should appear on your toolbar: flush left, centered (see the yellow arrow in the illustrated instructions), or flush right. In this example, the picture has been centered in the document.

6. To add text below the picture, position the cursor at the lower right corner of the picture. Click, and then hit Enter. The cursor will now be below the picture.

7. Now, type a description of the picture (or add any text you want to add).

8. The text is centered because the picture was centered. You can change the margin of the text by highlighting the entire sentence (see the green arrow in the illustrated instructions), and clicking on the margin icons (red arrow).

9. Now your document looks like the example in the illustrated instructions.

Congratulations! You’ve now inserted a jpg file into a Word document, changed the size, changed the position, and you’ve added text! You can continue to add jpg files to this document, and add more text simply by hitting Enter and repeating steps 1 through 9.

For more tutorials, many with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions, go to:

http://freecontent.janktheproofer.com/#Tutorials:

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