According to the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. Despite this, pictures do not count towards the word limit in an essay, so you might want to consider using them in your work!
If you are going to add images to a document, though, you need to make sure they’re correctly formatted. And a big part of that is text wrapping, which is what we’re looking at here!
In Microsoft Word, text wrapping controls how images are positioned relative to text. This can be used to ensure that images are presented clearly in a document. The main options here are:
In Line with Text
Square
Through
Behind Text
The default setting when you add an image to a document is ‘In Line with Text’. This will be fine as long as you put the image on a new line, as you will simply have text above and below it. But if you want more control over image position, ‘Square’ and ‘Tight’ will usually be your best options.
Once you have added images to a document, you can adjust the text wrapping to make sure they fit with the surrounding text. To do this:
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The ‘Layout Options’ button.
Text wrapping options.
This will then adjust the text wrapping in relation to the image. When you do this, make sure that text elsewhere in the document hasn’t shifted and caused alignment issues.
With the ‘Through’ setting in particular, you may also need to adjust the wrapping points (i.e. the places in the image that text is allowed to fill). You can do this by:
The surrounding text will then fill any ‘gaps’ in the image set using the wrap points. Give it a try!
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