Microsoft Office Word 2003 Advanced

SECTION 3

Using the Picture Toolbar

When you insert a picture, the picture toolbar will open, usually on the right hand side of the document as a vertical toolbar. Let’s go over each of its commands again.

As you might expect, this toolbar contains the basic commands for inserting and editing a picture. Let’s take a look at each command.

	Opens a browse box so you can select a picture to insert.
	Opens a list of colour styles.
	Increases the contrast level of the picture.
	Decreases the contrast level of the picture.
	Increases the brightness level of the picture.
	Decreases the brightness level of the picture.
	Adds handles to the picture for cropping.
	Rotates the image 90 degrees to the left.
	Expands into a list of line style choices. Click to select the line you want from the list.
	Compresses the pictures in the document.
	Opens a list of text wrapping styles.
	Opens the Format Picture dialog.
	Toggles the transparency painter on and off.
	Resets the picture, erasing any changes you have made.

Some of these options are self-explanatory, like the toggles for brightness and contrast. We’re not going to cover those options in more depth, but we do want to take a closer look at some of the more complicated choices.

If you click this button….	This is what you will see…	And this is what you can do with it…
		Change the colour style of your picture to any option in the menu. - Automatic: Automatically configures the colour settings. - Grayscale: Changes the colours in the pictures to shades of gray. - Back and White: Changes the colours in the pictures to black or white. - Washout: Makes the clip more transparent. Useful if placing an image behind text.
		Use these handles to crop your image.
		Use the options in this dialog box to compress and crop all pictures in your document, or just selected pictures. This dialog allows you to choose what pictures to apply the compression to, the resolution to use, and picture options.
		Click to select the way your picture will be wrapped around text. - In line with text: Picture will act as a large letter and fit in with the text. - Square: Text is wrapped around picture as a square. - Tight: Text is tightly wrapped around picture. - Behind Text: Picture is sent behind text like a watermark. - In Front of Text: Picture is sent in front of text. - Top and Bottom: Text will stop above the picture and re-start below the picture. - Through: Text will wrap tightly around picture, and fill any open spaces. Use the Edit Wrap Points option to change how much space is around your picture.
		Your pointer will turn to a paintbrush; you can then click an area of your picture to make it transparent.

We skipped over the Format Picture option; we’re going to take a look at that dialog box separately as it has a lot of options.