Topic: Managing Graphics

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Decreasing File Sizes of Documents with Graphics One challenge faced by anybody adding graphics to a document is to manage the resulting file size of the document. Adding graphics can make a file huge, as this tip points out. Also covers different ways you can reduce the file size while still working with your graphics. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Displaying Clip Art Details How to locate the format and size of a graphic before adding it to your Word document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Duplicating Drawing Objects Need to duplicate a drawing object? It’s easy to do if you use the same editing techniques you are already familiar with. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

File Sizes for Documents with Graphics When you add graphics to documents, the resulting file sizes can be very large. This tip contrasts different file sizes for documents containing graphics in different versions of Word. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000

Getting Pictures Out of Word If you receive a Word document from someone, you may want to get any graphics it contains into their own files. You can do that using any of the several techniques described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Making Pictures Show in Word What are you to do if you can’t see all the pictures you know are in your document? The answer may lie in where those pictures are placed, how you are viewing your document, and what configuration settings you are using. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Moving Images Behind Text You can control the order in which graphics appear in your document. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Pictures Move on their Own Insert some pictures into a document, and you may be in for a surprise—they don’t necessarily stay where you put them. Depending on how you add pictures and what formatting you apply, your pictures may move around a document the same way that you text can. This tip explains how to make pictures stay where you put them. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Printing Graphic Thumbnails If you use a lot of graphics in your Word documents, then you may want to help manage those graphics by printing small “thumbnails” of all the graphics in a folder. This tip includes a macro that will print thumbnail sheets that are great for just that purpose. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Printing Graphic Thumbnails with WordBasic Got a folder full of photos, and you want to get a handle on what you've got? Use this handy WordBasic macro and you can get a grip on your graphics fast! Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95

Removing Pictures from Multiple Files Got a bunch of files you need to remove a graphic from? What if that graphic is in the header of each of those files? With the macro introduced in this tip, you can load thousands of documents and remove any graphics from each one’s headers. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Selecting Lots of Graphics How to build a selection set composed of graphics. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Sending Drawing Objects to the Back or Front How to order graphics to the back- or foreground in a Word document. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Using Object Anchors Object anchors can help you position and manage graphics better. Find out how to use them in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Using Static Graphic Sizes Sometimes graphic sizes can change on their own. Here's how to stop that behavior. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Using Text Boundaries One of the design aids that Word provides is known as “text boundaries.” You might find using them to be helpful. This tip explains what they are and how to control them. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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