2. HOW TO-Saving Images

You will sometimes need images, diagrams or chars from the Internet to illustrate your studies. Many people just choose to copy and paste images which creates poor resolution – instead you should save your image to a folder and insert it into your document.

1. Access the Internet using the icon at the bottom of the screen;

2. In the address bar key in Google to get to google

3. Once Google has loaded, key in the search word Widow – at the top left of the screen click on Images.

4. Choose a suitable picture and click on it to enlarge it.

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5. Right click in the middle of the enlarged image and choose Save Picture As

6. In the Save Picture dialogue box, first, give the image a suitable name – widow – not untitled as it is here

7. Make sure that you are saving on This PC/H: Drive/Docs/course folder/IT folder – check with your tutor if you are not sure.

8. Press the save button when finished.

9. You can now go to your document or PowerPoint and insert the image by clicking on the Insert tab and choosing the Pictures button – you can then browse for the file you have just saved.

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Inserting Pictures

You can insert pictures into your work easily as long as you know where your pictures are stored on the computer.

1) Using a blank document follow these instructions to have a play!

2) From the Insert ribbon, choose Picture:

3) The following screen should appear to the right of your page:

4) Go to a location where you know pictures are stored – for this exercise, use the sample pictures available

5) Once you have chosen your picture, click on Insert and your picture will appear wherever you last clicked on the page.

6) REMEMBER – when you first insert an image, the computer will treat it as a piece of text unless you apply text wrapping to the image.

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Applying Text Wrapping

When the picture first arrives in your document, the computer still sees it as a piece of text. You have to let the computer know this it is an object by setting text wrapping options.

1) Click once on the picture on your page to make sure that it is selected.

2) Click on the Picture Tools at the top of the screen – on the Format tab.

3) Click on the Text Wrapping button and choose one of the options;

IN LINE WITH TEXT – if you want your picture lined up to your text – ie centred above a sentence.

SQUARE is good if you want your text to flow around your picture, but

IN FRONT OF TEXT is good if you don’t want your text to move.

You will have to experiment with these when you have some text on screen.

Moving Pictures

1) Once you have applied a text wrapping option you should be able to put your mouse in the middle of the picture, and click and drag to move it wherever you want. When your mouse is in the correct position to move, the mouse pointer should turn into a four headed cross.

2) If you have chosen In Line with text you will only be able to move your picture as though it were a piece of text.

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Resizing a Picture

There are 2 ways to resize a picture – either manually or by measurement.

Resize Manually

If you want to resize your Picture manually, click on it so that the handles appear around it, and use one of the corner handles to make the picture larger, smaller, wider or whatever!

If you want to keep your picture in proportion, use one of the corner handles rather than the side or top.

When your mouse is in the correct position to resize, your mouse pointer will change into a line with 2 arrow points.

Resize by Measurement

1) You might want to resize your image to a specified size – for example, you might want it to be 2 cm wide – you can access the size properties by clicking once on the Size toolset from the Picture tools;

2) Enter the Height or Width as instructed.

3) If you want your picture to remain in proportion, make sure that the Lock aspect ration box is checked – when this is ticked, if you enter a height, the width will adjust automatically.

Using your blank page, experiment with some different pictures.

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