Managing Graphics

Tips, Tricks, and Answers

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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.

Displaying Clip Art Details
How to locate the format and size of a graphic before adding it to your Word document.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Moving Images Behind Text
You can control the order in which graphics appear in your document.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Selecting Lots of Graphics
Need to select a lot of graphics in the document? Here's an easy way to do it using tools available on the toolbars or ribbons in Word.

Sending Drawing Objects to the Back or Front
Drawing objects can be placed in a document in such a way that they overlap with each other. If you want to arrange those drawing objects, you can do so by moving them around. How you do so depends on the version of Word you are using.

Using Object Anchors
An object anchor is used to signify the point at which an object is inserted into a document. If you want to see these anchors, you need to configure Word to display them.

Using Static Graphic Sizes
Sometimes graphic sizes can change on their own. Here's how to stop that behavior.

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.