Aligning a Picture with the Surrounding Text

Aligning a Picture with the Surrounding Text

When you insert a picture into a document, it appears as a separate object and pushes any text it’s associated with out of the way. You can use the Layout tab of the Format Picture dialog box to help align pictures and wrap text around them. You can choose from seven different text-wrapping styles, and you can wrap text on both sides of a picture, on one side of a picture, or on the largest side of a picture. In addition, you can set the distance between the edge of a picture and the text itself.

You can specify that a picture be positioned as follows:

  • Absolutely. This type of positioning is determined ...

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