Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition

Chapter 5. Working with Graphics and Pictures

Working with drawing layers in Office documents

Inserting pictures into Office documents

Making your pictures look great

Finding and using online pictures

Adding shapes and text boxes

Adding SmartArt to documents

Displaying data graphically with charts

Capturing and inserting screenshots

Applying text effects with WordArt

Using Office themes

EFFECTIVE communication of ideas often requires much more than verbal skills. With Office 2013, you can easily add pictures and other types of graphics that make your documents more visually appealing while at the same time supplanting the proverbial thousand words.

We begin our exploration of the picture-handling capabilities of Office, naturally, with a picture. Figure 5-1 ...