It is often necessary to insert an image into a text document. This cannot be done in all text editors. For example, in simple editor Notepad does not provide such a function. But in the editor Microsoft Office In Word, you can not only insert a picture, but also edit it.

Inserting an image into a text documentFirst you need to open Microsoft editor Office Word. Then open the document into which you want to insert the image.

Then you need to find the desired picture on your computer and click on it right click mice. Select the “View” action. The image will open in the image viewer. Next, you need to right-click on the image. From the list of actions that appears, select “Copy”. In the Word document, indicate the location where you want to insert the image. Right-click on the desired location and select the “Paste” action. The image will appear in the document. You can insert the image in another way. In the “Insert” tab of the Word editor, click on the “Picture” button, then specify the path where the required image is located. Having found an image, select it and click on “Insert”. Editing a picture in a text editor Inserted into text editor the image may be too large, or, conversely, small. In this case, you can use the built-in editor Word function image editing. To increase or decrease the size of a picture, click on the picture with the left mouse button. Then pull it by the edges. The picture can be made a little narrower or wider than before, that is, the proportions can be changed. If the image is cloudy, you can make it brighter and more contrasting. To do this, you need to go to the “Format” menu, which is located under the inscription at the top “Working with pictures”. Here you can add or reduce contrast and brightness, and recolor the image. You can also use compression if necessary. You can also choose a style for the picture from the Format menu. The drawing can be done with rounded corners or curved, oval or framed. You can select any of the shapes displayed in the “Drawing Shape” submenu as the drawing shape. Please note that when selecting some shapes, the drawing will look cropped. In the “Picture Border” submenu, you can add an outline and set its thickness and color. The outline looks the same as the frame. You can add Shadow, Reflection, Glow, Smooth, and Bump effects. There is also the effect of rotating a three-dimensional figure. Ready-made blanks for images are also available. Selecting the position of the image in the document is available in the “Position” submenu. The position can also be changed by moving the image using Enter keys, Backspace and Spacebar. In the "Working with Pictures" window, you can also move the image to the foreground and background, rotate by degrees, and align. You can also crop unwanted parts of the image using the Crop tool. The size can be changed by opening the "Size" window from the corresponding submenu.

Hello to everyone who came to see me in order to gain new knowledge or refresh existing knowledge. Today's material is devoted to how to insert a photo into a text document. Let's consider this function for the most popular text editor Word. Well, also for the OpenOffice word processor, since I received a specific question about it from a blog subscriber.

Summary of the article:

Word

Friends, you can insert into the text of a Word document either a picture downloaded from the Internet, or a drawing drawn in Paint, or any photograph, but only from a computer in digital format. This means that paper photos must be scanned onto a computer using the functionality third party device. The editor itself does not provide a function to go directly to scanning a photo. From the depths of a PC, you can insert an image into text in several ridiculously simple ways. Let's consider everything.

Insert mode

The first option is to use the capabilities of the editor itself - the “Insert” tab, which can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding inscription in the main menu of the program, located at the top of the working window.

Go to the desired tab and do the following:

1. Using the mouse arrow, place the cursor at the place in the text where the picture should be inserted.
2. Click on the “Drawing” icon - this is what we are going to insert.

1. Using the capabilities of the window that appears, we find our image on the PC, select it with a single click (it should be highlighted) and press the “Insert” button.

Copy

There is another way, just as simple as the previous one - place the cursor in the area of ​​​​the text where you need to insert an image, and then do the following:

1. We minimize the editor (the “dash” button in the right top corner working window).

1. Through “Computer” (maybe additionally “My” or “This”) we find a previously saved picture in the depths of the system.
2. Highlight it with a single click and press Ctrl+C, that is, copy it. This can be done through the context menu - right mouse button, click on the picture, the “copy” command.

1. We return to the collapsed text document by clicking the icon on working panel at the bottom of the screen.

1. Press the Ctrl+V keys, making sure that the cursor is in the right place, or also right-click and select the “Paste” command.

Drag and drop

The next method I would like to talk about is drag and drop. The idea is to display two windows at once - the editor and the folder with the image. To do this, you need to click on the button depicting two squares located between the red cross and dash.

After this, the editor window will become smaller. If necessary, you can further narrow it by hovering the cursor over one of the sides. Next, we find the folder with the image on the computer and also reduce it. As a result, we should be able to see two windows at once. Simply drag the image from its native folder into a text editor.

Drawing Options

After the image is inserted, the editor menu will display additional features. Using the editing tool, you can adjust the position of the image in the text - separately or with different wrapping variations. Change brightness, contrast or color, size, shape, style and so on.

OpenOffice

In conclusion, with a bonus, as promised, I’ll tell you how to insert a picture into word processor OpenOffice. The process is essentially the same as for Word:

1. Place the cursor at the location of the future image location in the text.
2. In the main menu, select sequentially following commands– “Insert”, “Image”, “From file”.
3. Find the picture on the PC, highlight it with a single click and click OK.

Unlike the previous editor, OpenOffice has the ability to scan an image directly into text from the processor. To do this, you need to sequentially select the following main menu commands - the same “Insert”, “Image”, and then “Scan” and “Select source”.

That's all, friends. I hope this material helped you do something big and important. Goodbye.

Quite often when preparing abstracts, reports, coursework and theses It is necessary to provide text material with visual illustrations by inserting drawings into the typed document. To solve this problem, the popular text Word editor contains the entire necessary set of tools and tools for adding, correcting and formatting graphics. Let's look at the main features built into Word.

Easily insert a picture in Word 2007 and later
The most in a simple way Inserting a picture into the Word text editor is as simple as dragging it with the mouse. This method can indeed be used if the image size is approximately as expected and does not lead to severe violations in the formatting of the document. But most often things happen differently. The added image goes beyond the boundaries of the document, and the entire carefully adjusted structure of the document is disrupted. In this case, only correct insertion of the picture, as well as subsequent adjustment of its formatting in the document, can help.

How to insert a picture correctly in Word
More the right way is to use the special “Drawing” tool from the “Insert” group of the main menu. Click on “Picture”, in the window that appears, select an image on your computer disk and click the “Insert” button. The image is added to the document and a set of tools for formatting and customizing it opens.

Basic Formatting Features
Let's look at the most useful and frequently used tools for customizing and designing an added image.
If the added image needs deeper editing, then it is best to do it in programs specially designed for this, for example Photoshop, and only then insert it into Word.

| Workshop. Creation and editing graphic images

Lesson 24
Workshop
Creating and editing graphics

After studying this topic, you will learn:

What are the types computer graphics;
- how a picture can be located in a text document;
- technology for inserting pictures into a text document.

Types of computer graphics

We will call graphics drawings, diagrams, drawings, digital photographs, scanned images and artistic inscriptions obtained in a variety of ways.

The two main types of images used in documents Microsoft Word, are graphic objects and drawings. Graphics include AutoShapes, Diagrams, Curves, Lines, and WordArt. These objects are created directly in Microsoft document Word and are part of it. To create and modify these objects, use the Drawing toolbar.

Pictures are images created from another file. They include bitmaps, scanned images, and photographs, as well as clip art from the clip art collection that comes with Microsoft Office. To change pictures, use some buttons on the Drawing toolbar and the Image Adjustment toolbar. In some cases, a drawing can be converted into a graphic object.

Despite this diversity, there are two fundamentally different approaches to creating computer graphics and, accordingly, two types of graphics: raster and vector (Fig. 2.12).

Image raster graphics is a collection of pixels - colored dots. You can create a raster image yourself using a raster graphics editor, by scanning a paper image, or using a digital camera.

IN raster image You can get a very accurate reflection of the original by alternating dots of different shades. This is especially evident in digital photography.

Vector or object graphics is an image obtained from the simplest geometric shapes: segments, arcs, circles, rectangles, etc. etc., which are called objects. In table 2.1 provides a comparative description of the two types of graphics.

Rice. 2.12. Raster and vector graphics

Table 2.1. Comparative characteristics raster and vector graphics

Position of graphic image in text

There are two ways to arrange a picture in a text document: “in the text” and “outside the text”. If the picture has a position “in the text”, then, like a regular symbol, it occupies a place between two other symbols (Fig. 2.13). For example, you can place a picture of a toolbar button in the text. There are many such examples in this textbook.

Rice. 2.13. Drawing as a symbol in text

The height of the line in which the picture is located increases to the height of the picture, therefore, as a rule, small pictures are located in the line. If you need to insert a large picture into the text, it is better to place it on a separate line. A picture inserted into text moves with the text when other characters are inserted in front of it. If the picture is located in a separate paragraph, then in order to position it in the center, you need to set the appropriate alignment for this paragraph.

When the picture is positioned outside the text, it can occupy any place on the sheet. In this case, the drawing can be grouped with other graphic objects, for example, making inscriptions on the drawing.

For the “outside the text” position, you can set several types of text wrapping (Fig. 2.14) and achieve the most compact arrangement of text and image.

Rice. 2.14. Types of text wrapping around a picture

The most commonly used position is "around the frame". In this case, the text expands along the width of the rectangular frame in which the drawing is inscribed.

When designing a page with illustrations, you should adhere to the following rules:

1. For a more compact placement of drawings, use the “around the frame” position.

2. The picture should not be placed in the middle of the text. This makes it difficult to understand, since the lines start on one side of the picture and end on the other. It is better to move the drawing to the right or left border of the sheet.

3. It is necessary to ensure that the outer boundaries of the picture coincide with the inner boundaries of the sheet margins.

4. If the picture takes up more than 3/4 of the width of the text, then it is better to choose the location of the text at the top and bottom. In this case, you can set the picture to “in text” and place it on a separate line (in an empty paragraph).

5. Drawings must be proportionate to the number of elements depicted on them. The more information elements there are in the picture, the larger it should be.

Task 2.12. Inserting a picture from the Microsoft Office collection

Part Microsoft package Office includes a collection of pictures - stylized graphic images. Most pictures are vector graphics. Insert several pictures into a text document.

Work technology

1. Open a document with text that needs to be supplemented with pictures.

2. Select the Insert Picture Picture command or click the Add Picture button on the Drawing toolbar. The Clip Collection panel will open in the task area (see Figure 2.1).

3. The Picture Collection program window will open.

4. Click the Arrange Pictures hyperlink at the bottom of the task pane. When you open a collection, you'll be prompted to organize all the graphics and media files on your computer. Click the Later button.

5. In the Picture Collection window that opens, the left side of the window displays a list of all collections of clips installed by the environment and created by the user. Open the Microsoft Office picture collection and look at the names of categories (groups) of pictures.

7. Drag the image into the open document window.

8. Insert a few more pictures.

Task 2.13. Position of the picture in the text

When you insert a picture into a document, it automatically has the “in text” position. Change the size and position of inserted pictures in a text document.

Work technology

1. Click on the picture with the mouse. It will stand out with a frame.

2. Drag the corner handle and resize the image.

3. To change the position, select the picture by right-clicking and select context menu command Format object (picture).

4. In the Object Format window, select the Position tab.

5. Select the type of text wrapping. For the position of the picture “outside the text”, you can set some Extra options. To do this, click on the Advanced button.

Task 2.14. Inserting a picture from a file

1. Select the menu command Insert Picture From File or click the Add Picture button on the Drawing toolbar. The Add Picture window opens.

2. Select the folder where the drawing is stored.

3. Double click insert the drawing into the document.

4. If necessary, change the position of the pattern.

Features of creating a vector image in Word 2003

In Word 2003, when creating a drawing from autoshapes, a “canvas” object automatically appears - a rectangular frame spanning the entire width of the page (Fig. 2.15). All autoshapes included in the drawing must be located inside one canvas.

A canvas is also a graphic object that has borders and an internal area. You can apply formatting to the canvas, like any graphic object. The dimensions of the canvas can be changed according to the size of the design, so that there is not much left empty space. You can also enable the Canvas toolbar to work with the canvas.

Rice. 2.15. Canvas for creating a picture

A canvas with a pattern can occupy a position “in the text” and “outside the text”.

The canvas displays the user's transition from the mode of working with text to the mode of working with graphics. To finish working on a drawing, you need to click outside the canvas, to continue - click inside the canvas. If the canvas is not activated, a new canvas will appear to draw a new autoshape.

After completion of the work, the canvas, together with the objects located on it, forms a single image.

IN previous versions The Word canvas graphic object did not exist. New opportunity causes conflicting reviews from users. You have to get used to working with canvas.

For those who are used to working without a canvas, it is possible to turn it off. To do this, select the Tools Options command and on the General tab, uncheck the Automatically create canvas when inserting autoshapes checkbox.

However, the canvas helps “not to lose” individual elements drawing. When you create a drawing, you need to make sure that all objects are within the same canvas, that is, that it is activated until you finish creating the image.

Task 2.15. Create an image using the Draw panel

Create a drawing consisting of autoshapes on the chosen topic:
- diagram “Objects of a text document” (see Fig. 2.3);
- diagram of the microdistrict in which your school is located;
- a plan for the arrangement of furniture in the room.

Work technology

1. Open the built-in Draw toolbar. To do this, click on the button located on the Standard panel, or select the View Toolbar command from the menu.

2. Open the AutoShapes menu and draw several autoshapes.

3. Perform the steps to edit objects (Table 2.2).

4. When you have finished creating the image, group all the objects using the Drawing menu command Group.

5. Select the dimensions of the canvas according to the size of the pattern.

6. Set the image canvas to text wrap type.

7. If you need to change the drawing, ungroup the objects using the Drawing 1 Ungroup menu command.

1 In the early versions of Word this menu was called Actions.

Table 2.2. Actions with a graphic object

Task 2.16. Actions with graphic objects

The Drawing panel contains the Drawing 1 menu. It lists actions that can also be performed on a graphic object. Let us explain the purpose of some of them. Explore the Draw menu options.

1 V earlier versions In Word this menu was called Actions.

Work technology

1. Create several autoshapes and place them on top of each other (Fig. 2.16). Conclude which figure is on top and which is on bottom?

Rice. 2.16. Object Overlay

2. Change the order of the shapes (menu command Drawing Order).

3. Rotate the autoshape (Drawing menu command Rotate/Flip).

4. So that graphic objects can be freely moved around the worksheet, disable snapping to grid (menu command Drawing Grid, uncheck Snap to grid). When snap to grid is enabled, objects move at regular intervals and it can be difficult to reconcile the position of two objects.

5. Insert a picture from the Microsoft Office gallery.

6. Ungroup it. What objects is the drawing made of?

Test questions and assignments

1. What types of computer graphics do you know?

2. What should I do to create a screen copy?

3. How to select several graphic objects?

4. Is it possible to group several graphic objects that have an “in-text” position?

Word has never had such a wide range of possibilities for working with images as it does in its latest version. In Word 2010, it became possible to add new effects (shadow, glow, reflection), which give the image expressiveness and catchiness, and 3D effects allow you to achieve absolutely incredible results. This part of the article discusses the issues of inserting, replacing and moving images.

Inserting an image

Images, particularly drawings and photographs, can be added to Word document 2010 from various sources: laser media, flash disks, hard drive or various web resources.

To insert an image from your hard drive or external media, do the following:

1. Go to the "Insert" tab;
2. Place the cursor where the picture will be placed;
3. Click the "Drawing" button in the "Illustrations" group;

In the “Insert Picture” window that opens, find the image file, click on it, and then click on the “Insert” button.

Figure 1. Inserting a picture.

Please note that inserting an image can be done in three different ways.

“Insert” - in this case, the image will be placed in the document without connection with source file. The image is placed in the document without changes, i.e. "as it is". At the same time, changes made to the source file do not in any way affect (change) the image inserted into the document. This procedure is similar to copying and then pasting an image file (as well as other image or text files), but bypassing the clipboard. The convenience of this method is that you get the opportunity to easily select the images you need and immediately insert them, i.e. avoid unnecessary work with the conductor. In addition, such a document can be transferred to other media ( HDD PC, flash drive, laser disc) without losing the image or its quality, since the image file is in the body of the document.

“Link to file” - in in this case Only a thumbnail of the image is placed in the document, and the drawing itself is not placed in the body of the document. If you continue to work on the image (constantly change it), then the changes are reflected in the thumbnail of the drawing (you will see them the next time you open the document). If you transfer a document to another medium without placing the used image on it, you will simply lose it. Conclusion - linked images must either be in the body of the document, or placed in the document folder and linked (the procedure for inserting the image will have to be repeated). Essentially, these are a kind of links to images that are used in web design, only smaller copies of the original are often used there. The main advantage of this method of inserting images is the savings in document size, since the original image is not included in the document. This is also justified if you use the same images in a number of documents. Additionally, if you're an image editer, you don't have to worry about making changes to the image thumbnails you insert into your document, since any changes you make to the original of a particular image will be reflected in full in the thumbnail. This is very convenient for graphic designers, working with a large number of images that are constantly being changed.

“Paste and Link” is a hybrid of the first and second methods. In this case, the image is inserted completely, but the connection to the original file remains. That is, changes made to the original will also be reflected in the inserted image. It makes sense to use it if you need to transfer a document to other media or post it on the Internet in one file, but when creating a document you want to see changes in the images. Please note that when you transfer a document with a sketch of an image to a medium, the connection with the original is lost (if it is not placed on the same medium and the path to it is not updated). That is this approach It is advisable to use in the process of creating a document whose images are subject to changes.

When working with the “Insert Picture” window, you can quickly insert images using the “Insert” method (the image file is added as an embedded picture without links to the original) - to do this, double-click on the image file. This insertion method is used by default in Word 2010.

Inserting an image from a web page

It is often necessary to insert images from a web page into a document. For example, you are composing a document with detailed description car of a certain brand, and you need to place a corresponding image next to it, and you can only find the right one on websites.

1st method:

1. Open a Word 2010 document and then the web page with the image;
2. Right-click on the picture (on the web page) and select “Copy” from the context menu;
3. Right-click anywhere on the Word 2010 document page and select Paste.

2nd method:

1. Open a Word 2010 document and the web page that contains the image.
2. Click the image and drag it into your Word 2010 document.

Please note that this method suitable only in cases where a small copy of the image contains a link to the full-size image. The link can be linked to anything, but most often it is a copy of an image or topical text. Some sites do not support opening images in separate windows. If you try to drag an unexpanded image (as part of a web page), you will only move a link to it. It will be linked to the text or image on the clipboard, which will be automatically inserted with this hyperlink. In a separate case, you may see the message “Error! Invalid hyperlink object." It reports that the image cannot be moved. A hyperlink to it cannot be linked to information placed on the clipboard.

Figure 2. Inserting a picture from a web page.

To insert images from a web page, you can also first save them on your computer’s hard drive and then insert them into a document using the methods described above:

1. Open an image on a web page and then right-click on it;
2. In the context menu, select "Save Picture As".

Replacing one picture with another

If you need to replace an image in a document with another one, with the same settings for the size and position of the image in the document, do the following:

1st method.

1. Select the desired image in the Word 2010 document;
2. Open the “Format” tab and in the “Edit” group, click on the “Change Picture” button;
3. In the Insert Image window that opens, find the image you want and click Insert.

2nd method.

1. Right-click on the image in the Word 2010 document window;
2. In the context menu, select “Change picture”;
3. In the Insert Image window, select the image you want.

Figure 3. Replacing the pattern.

Text wrapping

An image is inserted into a Word 2010 document as part of the text and moves as a block of text because it is an inline object. To move an image to a graphics layer and be able to freely move it around the document, do the following:

1. In an open Word 2010 document window, right-click on the desired image;
2. From the context menu, choose Wrap Text, and then choose to place your picture either Wrap or In Front of Text.

Text wrapping will be discussed in more detail in future articles.

Figure 4. Text wrapping around a picture.

Placeholder picture frames

As you insert images into your document, the size of the document increases and the load on your computer increases. On low-power computers, a Word 2010 document with a lot of images (especially color and High Quality) may slow down document viewing. In this case, you can speed up the work by displaying only their frames instead of pictures. This is especially convenient if you need to view (edit) only the text.

1. Click the "File" tab - "Options" and then "Advanced";
2. Under Show Document Contents, select the Show Picture Placeholder Frames check box and click OK.

Figure 5. Placeholder picture frames.

Conclusion

This article discussed basic issues of working with images - various ways inserting images into a document, inserting from a web page, replacing one image with another, etc. After reading this article, you learned how to reduce the size of a document full of drawings. I also showed how to link to the original drawing so that any changes you make are automatically reflected in the copy you paste into the document (or sketch). You learned how to move a picture around a document, and how to speed up viewing a document with a large number of images.