Notice also how the Tight-wrapped text goes inside the boxes because these images have a transparent background. For example, here you can see that although the books themselves don’t overlap, the boxes round them do. This is useful if you want to get two pictures closer together than their boundary boxes would otherwise allow. It looks complicated, but I don’t think I’ve ever, in years of creating worksheets and doing magazine layout, had to resort to changing anything in the sections labelled ‘Horizontal’ and ‘Vertical’ – I’ve just used the ‘Options’ section.īefore we go on to that though have a look at the ‘Allow overlap’ button. The other, Position, provides some detailed options for controlling where your pictures go and is the key to stopping them from jumping around.
One lets you control the size of your picture, but there are easier ways to do that (see How do I change the size of pictures in Word? on my website). You may have noticed there are two other tabs in this: To control how close the text is to the edge of a picture we opened the More Layout Options window from the right click menu. Last week, we looked at the ways in which Word can wrap text around pictures. More from my own editor, Catherine Fitzsimons, creator of educational materials and community magazines, on the tricky task of controlling how images behave in Word documents …
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