The Picture Position tab of the Advanced Layout dialog box. (In other words, you can specify how the anchor should behave.)įigure 1. (See Figure 1.) The resulting dialog box has a tab labeled Picture Position where you can specify the placement of the floating picture. Click the Advanced button on the Layout tab. Word displays the Format Picture dialog box. To modify how the picture's anchor behaves, you simply need to right-click on the picture and choose Format Picture from the Context menu. When you subsequently click on a floating picture, you will see an actual anchor character at the point in your document where the selected picture is anchored. You can see these anchors by choosing Tools | Options | View and making sure the Object Anchors check box is selected. To control the floating behavior of the pictures, Word provides an anchor that indicates a point in the document with which the picture is associated. Also, the picture can be formatted so that text floats around the picture. Floating pictures can do just that-float. The drawback to inline pictures, of course, is that text doesn't wrap around them, and therefore you may not get the exact layout you want.įloating pictures are a different story. Likewise, you can left- or right-align the picture by simply using the paragraph alignment tools on the Formatting toolbar.
Thus, if you center the paragraph and the picture is the only thing in the paragraph, then the picture is centered.
Inline pictures, since they are treated just like text, follow the alignment of the paragraph in which they are placed. Inline pictures are wonderful for some purposes, particularly for larger pictures. Inline pictures are great, and will stay exactly where you put them, because they are treated like any other character in a paragraph. The default placement method depends on the version of Word you are using. When you place a picture in a Word document, you can place it either inline or floating. Have you ever placed pictures in your document, expecting them to stay in a set location, and then you find that they moved around? This is not uncommon in Word, and typically can be traced to a misunderstanding about how Word handles pictures.
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