CyberNotes: Using Microsoft Word to Format Your Photos
Microsoft Word 2007 Tips: Part 3
So far in our mini series covering Microsoft Word 2007, we’ve offered tips and tricks to help you get the most from one of the most widely used programs. Last week we covered mail merges which can save you loads of time, and are easy to do. This week we’re going to take a look at some of the options that Word has built in for formating your photos and making them more lively in just a few clicks using Picture Styles.
Microsoft Word 2007 has made it easy for you to format your photos and make them look like you spent a lot of time adding effects. To make use of these features, you’ll want to start by inserting either a picture or clip art. You’ll do this by clicking on the “insert” tab, and then clicking either picture, or clip art, depending on what you want to work with.
Next, you’ll want to make sure that your picture is selected. If it’s selected, you’ll notice a “picture tools” tab at the top, and then you’ll click on format.
One thing that you will notice under the format tab is a “picture styles” section. You’ll want to click the arrow (circled above) to expand the list so that you can see all of the different options that you have for styling your pictures (pictured below).
By hovering your mouse over each of the different styles, you will see a live preview of how it will look on your picture before you actually click to apply it. When you find the style that you want, click on it, and it will apply it to your picture.
That’s all there is to it! On most computers, selecting a picture style will probably cause your computer to run slow. It’s definitely a work-out for your computer, so you may need to give it a few seconds. But be patient, it’ll be worth it.
The examples above only took less than a minute for each one. It’s the easiest way I’ve found yet for adding something extra to your photos before you post them on the Internet, or send them off to family and friends.
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Tags: CyberNotes, Software, Microsoft Office, Photos, Word
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This may be a silly question, but once you’ve applied a style is there any way to get the picture back out or would you have to send it in the word document (aside from print screen of course)?
Had a poke around and the image stored in the file is the original, so if you sent the document to a client they have to render it themselves (probably not a good idea to have too many of these in one file then). I’m assuming it does the opposite when saving in backwards-compatible formats, since the editability is lost.
Unfortunately there is no easy way that I know of to do that. One thing that might work is saving it as a website because then it will save each image as a separate file. Instructions on doing that can be found here:
http://www.gmayor.com/extract_.....m_word.htm
Open docx with Winzip, winrar or any program that reads zips.
thanks for the tip…
In the “old” (2003) version after editing an image, I would always just click the image and copy/paste it into Microsoft Office Picture Manager. From there you can set resolution options and choose a file type.