Select an image to use from your disk, your Clip Art collection, or from the Clipboard. Choose Format Data Series, Fill and select Picture or texture fill. To do this, select the column or bar that you want to change, and right-click the mouse. Replacing basic bars in charts with images gets your point across at a glance.Instead of filling your 2D column or bar charts with solid colors or boring patterns, you can fill them with images. To remove a node, hold down the Control key and click the node. To add more nodes, click and drag anywhere on the line.
Select the image, choose Picture Tools, Format, and then select Wrap Text, Edit Wrap Points.īy adjusting the nodes that control how text wraps around the image, you can set text to flow across the image or keep it away from the image edge on one or more sides. As most images are rectangular, the wrap will be a rectangle too, but you can change this if you wish. Wrap Text Around or Through an ImageĪdd nodes to cause wrapping text to follow the contours of an image.When you have an image’s wrap set to Square or to Tight, the text will wrap around the image. Deselect Rotate with Shape if you want the image to remain horizontal even if you rotate the shape.Ĭlick one of the Fill options in the ‘Picture or texture fill area’ to alter the image transparency inside the shape. If you increase both the Width setting and the Height setting, you can adjust the position of the image in the shape by using the Offset options. Likewise, if the image is stretched so that it is wider than it should be, increase the Picture Position: Height setting. Click the Crop option and, if your image is stretched so that everything is taller than it should be, increase the Picture Position: Width setting. If your image looks out of proportion inside the shape, select the shape, right-click it, and choose Format Shape. You can also create your own custom shapes by using the Curve or Freeform tools and then fill them with images, too. From the Format tab, select Shape Fill, Picture select a picture to use and click Insert. Once you’ve selected the shape, the Drawing Tools tab appears. Hold the Shift key as you do this, to draw a perfect circle.
To see this feature at work, choose Insert, Shapes and select a shape–say, the ellipse. Insert Images into a Circle, a Heart, or Any Shapeīreak images out of their square boxes.You can create an image embedded in nearly any kind of shape in Microsoft Word.