Wrapping styles of pictures in Word

Following enquiries from bu-cket, here are a few notes about pictures in Microsoft word.

A word document has a text layer, and two graphics layers – one behind the text layer, and the other in front of the text layer. A picture can be formatted:

• So that it's a character in the text layer. You can cut, copy and paste it just like a text character, and you can also use the paragraph alignment (left, centre, right) to align it. If you select a picture which is in the text layer, then the resizing handles at the corners are black squares.
• So that it's in one of the graphics layers, where it can be dragged around using the mouse. If you select a picture which is in a graphics layer, then the resizing handles at the corners are white circles.

Whether a picture is in the text layer or a graphics layer is determined by its wrapping style, and the possible wrapping styles include:

• In line with text. The picture is a character in the text layer.
• Square. The picture is in the graphics layer in front of the text, and the text wraps round a rectangle enclosing the picture.
• Tight. The picture is in the graphics layer in front of the text, and the text wraps round the outline of the picture, whatever the shape.
• Behind text. The picture is in the graphics layer behind the text.
• In front of text. The picture is in the graphics layer in front of the text, and obscures any text underneath it.

To change the wrapping style of a picture in a document:

1. Right click the picture, and choose Format Picture from the shortcut menu.
2. The Format Picture dialog opens. Move to the Layout page of the dialog, where you can choose a wrapping style.
3. Click the OK button.

When you insert a picture into a document its initial wrapping style is determined by a setting in Word's Options dialog box. To change this:

1. Open the Options dialog which is on the Tools menu.
2. Move to the Edit page of this dialog.
3. About half way down this page, there's an Insert/paste pictures as drop-down list box, for setting the wrapping style.
4. Click the OK button.

Chowo has found that Word occasionally forgets this setting, so you may have to reset it from time to time, such as after earthquakes.

A no go situation

Hello Chowo and Tiger



Just to say that I have not had any success with the clip art! Should I have selected the picture first then selected the formatting. I thought if I did it this way I would not be catching you out cold on Monday.
Don

Visit to Staircase House 21.2.08

We had a very good return visit to the House, this time with excellent new audio descriptions of the entire exhibition.

We went to the Storeroom where the household supplies would have been kept and saw how well organised the running of the house would have been. This ledon to the Cold Store and we heard a conversation of a young boy being given instruction in the preservation of a side of beef. Fish was also preserved and apples stored in layers of straw. Game was hung from the celing and dishes containing herbs and spices.

We then moved into the kitchen with a huge grate, kitchen tableladen with food, hams and fish - fruit -spices which we were able to touch. We were told there would not have been glass in the window, just shutters to keep out the wind and rain.

We went into theparlour where guest would have been entertained with different games including cards and they had wine to drink. Here they would have discussed the days affairs and politics.

The counting room contained quill pens and coins and this is where the masterof the house would have spent a great deal of time. The Shelcross family was very wealthy and owned mines and land and farms producing all they needed to live their pampered lives compared to the commoners. There were heavy carved boxes to contain their recors and money.

The bedroom was dominated by a large four poster beed heavily draped in coarse linen. There was a large cabinet on the wall to house the wine and food that might be needed in the night. The bride's dowery chest would have held the linen brought to the marriage. A women's life was based on marriage, births and deaths.

The dining room was very elegant, with fine china and linen and glasses. The panelson the walls were a bright blue and the historians had found traces of this colour when stripping back the woodwork after the fire. There was a heavy carpet on the floor and a cupboard containing a chamber pot for the men to use once the ladies had left them to their port.

In the music room there was a piano where they intertainws and comfortable chairs and settees for them to rest upon. The next room covered the 1940' with an old valve radio and utility furniture.

We rounded off the visit with a cup of tea and biscuit in the extension to the house which had been added to enable a lift to be installed. The staff were all very helpful and on hand all of the time to answer questions.

As usual our sincere thanks to May for such a highly organised trip and the volunteers for getting us there and guiding us around.

A combined blogg from Ken and Elaine.