{"id":1678,"date":"2010-06-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2010-05-23T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:49:30","slug":"image-formatting-in-word-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Image Formatting In Word, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from pictures, you can insert shapes into your document. Lots of shapes. I promise that this is the final chapter in my Image Formatting series.
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\nShapes are inserted from the Shapes menu, found on the Insert tab. You choose a shape, then you drag your mouse in the document to create that shape:<\/p>\n

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Fig 11. A shape is ready for manipulating.<\/p><\/div>\n

Once in the document, you can reshape the image by manipulating it with the mouse: Grab the squares to re-size an edge. Grab the blue circles to re-size in two directions. Use the green circle to rotate the shape.<\/p>\n

Further shape manipulation is possible by using the Format tab, which looks different when you’re dealing with a shape than when viewing the Format tab when a picture is selected.<\/p>\n

Just like an image, you can shove the shape in front of or behind the text, flow text around the image, and so on. (See last Friday’s blog post<\/a> for details.)<\/p>\n

Unlike an image, however, you might end up with several shapes on a page. When you do, you might want to combine and organize them. That happens by using the difficult-to-locate Align and Group menus.<\/p>\n

The Align menu is found in the Arrange group on the Format tab:<\/p>\n

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Fig 12. Items on the Align menu button thing.<\/p><\/div>\n

So when you have three images top-to-bottom and you want them all to be centered, you Ctrl+Click to select each image, then choose Align>Align Center (shown above).<\/p>\n

You can also use the Distribute Vertically command to ensure that each shape is spaced evenly.<\/p>\n

When the shapes are perfect you can group them, so that they can all be manipulated as a unit. Grouping takes place in the Group button menu:<\/p>\n

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Fig 13. The stubby Align button menu thing.<\/p><\/div>\n

Choose the Group command and all your selected shapes are grouped. You can then paint them, apply effects, wrap text, and use other commands on the group.<\/p>\n

Shape manipulation can be done using any of the commands in the Shape Styles, Shadow Effects, and Size groups on the Format tab. As long as your working on a DOCX<\/code> (Word 2010\/2007) document, you’ll see your shapes change as you hover the mouse over each command.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most interesting thing you can do with a shape is to fill it with something.<\/p>\n

\"\"To fill the shape with text, select the shape and then click the Edit Text button, found in the Insert Shapes group on the Format tab. The shape turns into a text box, into which you can type.<\/p>\n

You can also stick a picture into any shape, which helps create an interesting frame:<\/p>\n

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Fig 14. An shape used as a picture frame.<\/p><\/div>\n

The secret is to select the image, and then use the Fill menu and choose the Picture item:<\/p>\n

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Fig 15. The Insert Picture command, hidden here.<\/p><\/div>\n

The end result is the picture in a frame, similar to what you see in Fig. 14, though with whatever shape you chose.<\/p>\n

So \u2014 yes, I’m wrapping this up \u2014 that’s the fun you can have with inserting images into your Word document. Yeah, there’s more I can write, but I’ll leave this blog post to four installments ’cause there are other interesting things to blog about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aside from pictures, you can insert shapes into your document. Lots of shapes. I promise that this is the final chapter in my Image Formatting series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}