Beyond the Basics
If you’re new to image placement within Office documents, your method might involve inserting them and then using the sizing handles to change the size. This method works well if you’re not too particular about the placement or size of the image.
Office applications include dialog boxes and ribbon tools to help you enter exact values. Using them, you can crop, size, or resize images with more precision.
Place an Image
Images for your documents can be photos you or others have taken, diagrams or charts you’ve created, or any image from a stock service. For easy use, upload or download the image onto your hard drive.
Open the document in your Office program. Place your cursor at the location where you want the image to appear. On the ribbon, select Insert. In the Illustrations group, select Pictures. In the Insert Picture dialog box, select the image you want to use and select Insert. Verify that the image appears as intended in the document. To include an image credit, right-click the image to display an editing menu. Select Insert Caption. In the Caption dialog box, in the Caption field, type or paste your caption. Select OK. Verify the caption’s text and placement.
Resize an Image
Here’s a quick-and-dirty option.
click within the image, then select the sizing handles and drag to the desired size. To maintain the height-to-width ratio, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while dragging the handles. Or, to be more precise, select Format > Shape Height or Shape Width and toggle to the exact size.
Crop an Image
To crop, you have a few options.
The first is to select Format > Crop > Crop, then drag the wide dashes on the image outline inward or outward. Select Crop one more time to complete it. You may find situations when it would be helpful to crop an image to a specific shape. After clicking on a picture to activate it, you can also select Format > Crop > Crop to Shape then select a shape of your choice. For example, you could crop a square picture into an oval picture. Also after clicking on a picture to activate it, you might choose to select Format > Crop > Crop to Aspect Ratio to change the picture area to certain dimensions of height and width. You can use this with the Fit and Fill buttons as well, which resize the image according to that picture area.
