Simply click the Layout Options button and choose one of the six choices in the call-out under “With text wrapping” In the new Word, we’ve made it even easier to find those options and quickly switch between them. Great for predictability, but not so great if you want to place the image in a more interesting place on the page, like the top right corner, or if you want the image to look integrated with the text in the document.įor many versions of Word, we’ve offered the ability to wrap text around images in a variety of ways. Inline images are treated exactly like a character of text, which means their position is constrained to the lines of text on the page. In prior versions of Word, images were inserted as “In line with text” by default.
This button appears at the upper right of any image, video, shape, chart, SmartArt or textbox that you select and gives you quick access to the text wrapping options. Our first step in simplifying the way you work with images was to add the Layout Options button.
This week’s post comes from Theresa Estrada, the Word team program manager working on improvements to images.