How To Use AutoShapes In Word To Type Text In Images

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:26:12 +0000

While you can use a text box to add a word or two to your Word document pictures, it is easier to position text typed directly onto the picture itself. While Word does not let you type directly onto a pasted picture, it does let you add text to AutoShapes. By turning your picture into an AutoShape, you can type directly on it. Follow these steps:

Right-click any toolbar.
Click Drawing.
Click AutoShapes on the Drawing toolbar.
Point to Basic Shapes and click Rectangle.
Click and drag in your document where you want to position the rectangle.
Click the Fill Color button’s drop-down arrow in the Drawing toolbar.
Click Fill Effects and then click the Picture tab.
Click the Select Picture button.
Navigate to the picture and click Insert. Click OK.
With the shape still selected, right-click the shape and select Add Text.
Type the text you want at the prompt.
Select and right-click the text.
Click Font.
Choose the desired font, font size, color, etc. from the Font dialog box and then click OK.

You can position the text within the shape by adding blank lines, spacing, indents, or any other paragraph formatting you wish.

Keep Word Headers And Footers From Overlapping Your Document Text

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:16:42 +0000

When you find that your header is almost overlapping the first line of text in your Word document, you do not need to make your header smaller; you need to increase the distance of the header text from the rest of the content on the page. To do so, follow these steps:

Go to View | Print Layout.
If the page ruler is not visible, go to View | Ruler.
Go to View | Header And Footer.
Move your mouse along the white area of the vertical ruler until it becomes a double-headed arrow and a ToolTip appears that reads Bottom Margin.
Click and drag the bottom margin until your header text is the desired distance from your document text.

Sometimes a header or footer overlaps the margin so that it prints too close to the top or bottom edge of the paper. When this happens, you need to increase the distance of the header or footer text from the edge of the page. You could use your mouse to adjust the top margin as you did to adjust the bottom margin in steps 4 and 5 above, or you could use the Page Setup dialog box, which lets you adjust the header and footer at the same time. For example, to adjust the header and footer so that both are one inch from the edge of the paper, follow these steps:

Go to File | Page Setup.
Click the Layout tab.
Click the up arrow of the From Edge: Header box until you reach 1″.
Click the up arrow of the From Edge: Footer box until you reach 1″ and then click OK.

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How To Use AutoShapes In Word To Type Text In Images

Keep Word Headers And Footers From Overlapping Your Document Text