From a corporate logos in a press release to scientific diagrams in an essay, there are many reasons to include an image in a document. But how images fit with the surrounding texts is an important part of, so you need to understand text wrapping. What Is Text Wrapping in Microsoft Word? Text wrapping refers to how images are positioned in relation to text in a document, which ensures that pictures and charts are presented neatly. Your options for this in Microsoft Word are:.
Learn how to add use text wrapping in your Microsoft Word 2010 documents. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application application or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Word 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial.
In Line with Text – Places an image on the same line as surrounding text. The image will therefore move as text is added or removed, whereas the other options here mean that the image will stay in one position while text shifts and ‘wraps’ around it. Image in line with text. Square – Allows text to wrap around the images on all sides at right angles, as if it has a rectangular box around it. This is the most common form of text wrapping. Square wrapping. Top and Bottom – Text wraps above and below the image so that the image is on its own line.
This is most useful for larger images that occupy most of the width of a page. Top and bottom wrapping. Tight – Similar to Square wrapping but without the rectangular box, so text wraps around the edges of the image itself. This is useful for irregularly shaped images. Tight wrapping. Through – Similar to Tight wrapping, but text will also fill any white gaps within the image. Text wrapping through an image.
Behind – Places an image behind the text, allowing you to add a watermark or background image to a page (although Microsoft Word has a separate, too). Image behind text.
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In Front of Text – Places the picture in front of the text. This can be used to circle text or add an arrow to highlight a specific term within a passage. The best choice for you will depend on your needs, but Square or Tight wrapping is standard in most cases.
How to Control Text Wrapping After to your document, you can adjust the text wrapping. To do this:. Click the image you want to format. Click the Layout Options button or go to Format Arrange Wrap Text. Select the setting required for your image The Layout Options menu. If you want to use the Tight or Through options effectively, you may also need to adjust the wrapping points for the image.
To do this, select the image in question and then:. Go to Format Arrange. Open the Wrap Text menu and click Edit Wrap Points. Drag the red lines to adjust the wrap points as required Editing wrap points. These instructions are for Windows computers, but the process in is very similar.
I have Googled till the cows come home and cannot find the answer to this ANYWHERE. Hopefully whoever answers this will be creating the first answer to this anywhere on the web! I am editing a document in which a client created a bunch of text boxes that appear throughout the text. I need to edit the text in those boxes, and I can't figure out how to access the text!
I can't click inside the text box and edit it. It acts like a graphic. When I click anywhere on the box, it brings up a dialogue that will let me edit colors, formats, shapes, sizes, layout, wrap etc. All graphic elements. NOTHING that lets me edit the text or access it in any way.
Been using Word for 20 years and never had this happen! Can someone help? I could just recreate all the text boxes, but not only would that be time consuming and annoying, I really want the answer to this.
There HAS to be a way. I just purchased MS Office 2013.
Previously I used 2010. I encountered the same problem you described, which I never experienced with 2010.No matter how much I clicked on the text boxes in my document, I couldn't edit the text, or I'd only be able to do so after a really long period of clicking!
Not efficient. Anyway, I basically went into the layout box and changed my text wrapping and all of a sudden I had access to all the text boxes in the document. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention to what I changed it from, or to, as I was just clicking away and hoping for the best. I went back into layout to see if I could figure it out. A couple times when I chose the text wrapping options 'tight' or 'square' it had the same effect of not allowing me to edit the text. Sorry I can't fully explain but maybe if you change whatever text wrapping option you currently have, it'll work. I also clicked on the options 'move with text' and 'fix position on page' so you could try those also.
All the best to everyone having this problem! Ok, this response is somewhat late, but I may have found an answer to what seems to be the issue. I am using MS Office 2016 for mac whilst my colleagues are using MS Office 2007. Office 2016, even in compatibility mode, does not allow you to edit text boxes that have been generated with a previous version. In order to overcome this, simply select the text box by clicking on the paragraph mark behind the anchor (you should have enabled 'Show all nonprinting characters') and on the 'insert' tab click 'draw new text box'. A popup appears stating that the text box was generated in an old version and should be converted.
It will show a button to convert it to the 2016 version. You will then be able to edit text.