

This is where the Layout options come into the picture. You will notice that dragging images around Word document is a lot easier now, but it is still not perfect. More often than not, when you insert an image, it ends up appearing somewhere else. That will tell Word to stop treating pictures as text but instead as images. Change it to Square.ĭon’t forget to click OK every time you change a setting. Under Cut, copy, and paste, you will find Insert pictures as an option. Inside Word Options above, there is another tab called Advanced. One more thing you need to do is change how Word places the image after adding it. You will now see the anchor symbol whenever you insert an image. Under Display, you will see Object anchors option that should be toggled on. Then click on Options at the bottom of the screen in the sidebar. To make anchor points visible, open Word and click on File button. The Word comes with anchor points that by default are not visible. Ideally, you should be able to drag it to wherever you want inside Word.

There are two settings to make it easier for you to add images that don’t act and look like text because it's not.

I will show you how you can place images in Word without having to curse Microsoft while pulling your hair out or biting your nails off!īefore you begin adding images, you will have to configure Word to play nice with pictures. These options are not so obvious and can be hard to see if you don’t know where to look. The only trouble is finding the correct tools for the job. While Microsoft has not made it easy to place and move images inside Word, it does offer ways to do so. Word often gets far less credit than it deserves. One issue that users have faced continuously with Word is the inability to move around, and adjust, images and place them correctly in Word. But Google too looked at Word for inspiration when it was trying to come up with an interface. Microsoft Word has long been the default champion of the document editing world, that is until Google Docs came along.
