Carol Bratt

When inserted, a picture is part of the flow of text, an inline object. Because you have already learned how to format alignment and spacing of regular text, you will now learn how to convert a picture to a floating object. Click the picture to ... select it. Click the Text Wrapping button on the Picture toolbar. This opens the menu. Click one of the wrapping styles. You can also use the selections on the Layout tab of the Format Picture dialog box. The view changes to Print Layout view, and the picture is now a floating object. When you place the mouse pointer over it, the pointer turns into a ... (view more)

When you've inserted a picture in a page and adjusted its size and so on, the next step is to position it where you want it. You can handle that in one of two ways. As an inline picture. This means a picture is considered merely one character on a ... line. As such, you can center it by clicking the Center button, indent it by pressing Tab or clicking the Increase Indent button, or even align it with a caption by including it in a table. As a floating object. This means a picture exists o n a different layer than the text itself. You can drag a floating object to move it anywhere on the page, ... (view more)

Before using the mouse to move or copy a sheet between workbooks, both the source and target workbook files must be open. Follow the steps below: Open both workbooks and choose Window | Arrange. Choose Tiled. Choose OK. When moving or copying to a ... new workbooks, it is not necessary to create the workbook first. When the sheets are dragged to an empty area on the desktop, a new workbook is automatically created. Select the tab(s) of the worksheet(s) to be moved or copied. To move the sheet(s), drag the tab(s) from the source workbook to the target workbook. Or: To copy the sheet(s), press CTRL ... (view more)

If you have a picture of your own, whether it's from a scanner, another clip art collection or from the Web, you can insert it into a document. Follow the easy steps below: Choose Insert | Picture | From File. Navigate using the dialog box until you ... see the file name. The dialog box resembles the Open dialog box. You may have to change folders or drives to the location where the file is stored. Click the file name to preview the image and double-click to insert it into your document. The picture is inserted into the document wherever the insertion point was located. Because the picture is ... (view more)

You can liven up your MS Word document by inserting graphics into it. The Microsoft Clip Gallery is a nice little program that organizes the thousands of professionally drawn clip art images that accompany the Office programs. The Clip Gallery also ... contains sounds and motion clips, but they are not useful in printed documents. To insert graphics into your document, follow the steps below: Place the insertion point where you want to insert a picture. Choose Insert | Picture | Clip Art. This opens the Clip Gallery window. If you're using Office 2000, you may have to insert the Office 2000 CD- ... (view more)

Have you ever received a PowerPoint presentation in an e-mail and you thought to yourself, "boy, would I like to have that picture for my screensaver?" Well now you can. All you have to do is follow these steps (with PowerPoint 2002 and 2003): Open ... your PowerPoint presentation. Click on File | Save As and choose gif or jpg. Choose My Pictures folder to contain what you are saving. Click OK. Accept, when prompted, to export every slide. Close your presentation. Go to your desktop. Right click with your mouse and choose Properties | Screen Saver | My Pictures Slideshow. Browse for the ... (view more)

Do you often use Notepad to create quick notes to yourself and then save the file on your desktop? While the process is quite simple, there is an alternative that you might want to investigate. This alternative takes advantage of the fact that ... WordPad can generate, and the Desktop can host, special OLE objects called "scraps." The benefit is that creating scraps is as easy as a quick drag-and-drop operation -- and there's no need for all the steps involved in naming and saving the file. Here's how to create quick notes with WordPad scraps: Launch WordPad. Create your note. Select/ ... (view more)

Grouping in MS Excel refers to selecting several sheets within a workbook and then working with them as a set. When workbook sheets are grouped together, the use can enter data or make changes to several sheets at once. For example, three worksheets ... could be created that will each have identical column labels. By grouping the sheets together, the labels would only have to be typed on one of the sheets to have them appear in the same locations on the other grouped sheets. Grouping sheets can save time when performing common tasks such as: Entering the same data on all grouped workbook sheets. ... (view more)

Microsoft Outlook tries to be very helpful and keeps track of the people that you correspond with. There are pros and cons to this behavior, however. On the plus side, Outlook remembers addresses you've used in the past, even if you have never ... stored them as Contacts and you can retrieve them by typing only the first few letters. The cons however, go on for a bit. The worst is that as you update your contacts, the AutoComplete name cache file remains static. So even though you have changed Aunt Mary's address several times in the last year, the one Outlook suggests when you start typing Mary ... (view more)

When you want to make two or more changes to font characteristics at the same time, or to change a bit of text or a character in some specialized way, the Font dialog box in MS PowerPoint is the best place to go. The dialog box not only gives you ... most control over the formatting process but you also have access to commands, such as Subscript or Emboss, that are not available on the toolbar. Clearly, it's also more efficient to change several attributes at one time. To access the Font format dialog box in PowerPoint, follow the steps below: Select the text or slide that you want to format. ... (view more)