WordTips: Working with Graphics (Table of Contents)

Summary: One way to enhance your documents is with Word's powerful graphics capabilities. Discover how to best utilize graphics and add them to your documents with WordTips: Working with Graphics. Here is the complete table of contents for this book.

WordTips: Working with Graphics includes 259 information-packed pages. The following is the Table of Contents:

Introduction

  • A Note on Terms
  • What's Your Version?
  • Need More Tips?
  • A Special Note of Thanks
  • Sharing this Document

Graphics Basics

  • Inserting a Picture in Your Document
  • Selecting a Graphic
  • Not Selecting Images when Selecting Text
  • Positioning Graphics Evenly
  • Placing Many Graphics in a Document
  • Nudging a Graphic
  • Rotate a Graphic Using the Keyboard
  • Selecting Lots of Graphics
  • Moving Images Behind Text
  • Selecting a Graphic that is Behind Text
  • Hiding Graphics
  • Understanding Grayscale Images
  • Best Quality for High Resolution Graphics
  • Problems Pasting Large Pictures
  • Displaying Thumbnails and Full-Size Images
  • Default Picture Settings
  • Turning on Picture Placeholders
  • Can't Select and Edit Graphics Elements
  • A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
  • Capturing a Screen
  • Making Pasted Images the Same Size as the Original
  • Pasting Pictures and Text into a Document
  • Disappearing Graphics Groups
  • Faster Picture Displaying
  • Making Pictures Show in Word
  • Default Picture Location
  • Understanding WordArt
  • Creating a Drop Cap
  • Using Two Characters as a Drop Cap

Formatting and Styling Graphics

  • Changing the Size of a Graphic
  • Resize Graphics Outside of Word
  • Cropping Graphics
  • Changing Text Orientation
  • Adjusting Shadow Settings
  • Adding an Artistic Effect
  • Correcting a Picture
  • Removing a Picture's Background
  • Adding a Style to a Picture
  • Adding a Shape to a Picture
  • Securing Your Signature
  • Graphics Marked as Changed when Comparing Documents

Linked Graphics

  • Understanding Graphic Linking
  • Easily Changing Links in Documents
  • Changing Many Link Locations
  • Deleting Freezes Computer
  • Unlinking an Excel Chart Automatically
  • Linking to Slides in PowerPoint
  • Images in Documents Shared with Others

Extracting Graphics

  • Getting Pictures Out of Word
  • Extracting Pictures from a Document
  • Saving Embedded Images to Individual Files
  • The Manual Approach
  • The HTML Approach
  • The Direct Approach
  • Extracting INCLUDEPICTURE File Names

Simple Shapes

  • Creating a Drawing Object
  • Moving Drawing Objects
  • Duplicating Drawing Objects
  • Rotating a Drawing Object
  • Flipping a Drawing Object
  • Changing the Size of a Drawing Object
  • Changing a Shape
  • Drawing Lines
  • Drawing a Curve
  • Grouping Drawing Objects
  • Filling A Drawing Object
  • Understanding Fill Effects
  • Sending Drawing Objects to the Back or Front
  • Adding Circles around Letters or Numbers

Strictly Text Boxes

  • Inserting a Text Box
  • Removing the Box from a Text Box
  • No-border Text Boxes by Default
  • Creating See-Through Text Boxes
  • Rounded Corners for a Text Box
  • Boxes in Boxes
  • Resizing a Text Box
  • Changing Orientation of a Text Box
  • Automatically Adjusting Height for Text Boxes
  • Finding Text Boxes
  • Finding an Invisible Text Box
  • Finding and Replacing Text Boxes
  • Find and Replace in Text Boxes
  • Changing Defaults for Text Boxes and Callouts
  • Making Resize to Fit Text the Default
  • Columns in a Text Box
  • Wrapping Text around a Graphic in a Text Box
  • Turning Off Overlapping, by Default
  • Linking Text Boxes
  • Selecting Text in Linked Text Boxes
  • Deleting All Text in Linked Text Boxes
  • Selecting a Graphic Behind a Text Box
  • Spell Checking with Text Boxes
  • Technique for Adding a Text Box to an Envelope
  • Adding a Drop Shadow to a Text Box
  • Placeholders for Stamps
  • Creating Tent Cards
  • Adding an Inverted A
  • Rotating Fractions in a Text Box
  • Updating a Field in a Text Box
  • Generating a TOC that Includes Text Boxes
  • Including Text Box Text in Word Counts
  • Counting Characters in Text Boxes
  • Removing Text Boxes but Saving the Text
  • Getting Rid of a Text Box, but Not the Text
  • Extracting Text Box Contents
  • Removing All Text Boxes In a Document
  • The Changing Relationship of WordArt and Text Boxes

SmartArt

  • Understanding SmartArt
  • Creating an Organization Chart
  • Can't Edit Org Charts in Word
  • Using the SmartArt Text Pane
  • Controlling Display of the SmartArt Text Pane
  • Adding Shapes to SmartArt
  • Formatting Shapes within SmartArt
  • Changing Shapes within SmartArt
  • Resizing Your SmartArt
  • Deleting SmartArt
  • Changing a SmartArt Layout
  • Changing SmartArt Layout Orientation

Graphics and Page Layout

  • Using the Selection Task Pane
  • Understanding Object Anchors
  • Using Object Anchors
  • Moving Object Anchors
  • Anchoring Objects by Default
  • Absolutely Positioning a Graphic
  • Writing On Top of Locked Graphics
  • Inserting an Image On a Specific Page
  • Vertically Aligning Text and an Image
  • Vertical Alignment of an Inline Graphic
  • Graphics and Line Height
  • Stop Graphics and Text from Jumping Around
  • Pictures Move on their Own
  • Wrapping Text Around a Graphic
  • Wrapping Text Around a Text Box
  • Understanding "Through" Text Wrapping
  • Editing Wrap Points
  • Setting the Wrapping Default for Objects
  • Hanging Indents in Wrapped Text
  • Grouping Images Changes Text Wrap to Inline
  • Different Layout for a Portion of a Page
  • Adding Sidebars
  • Creating Sideheads
  • Characters in the Margin Next to Paragraphs
  • Margin Notes in Word
  • Keeping Callouts Positioned
  • Moving Captions with Pictures
  • Keeping a Picture Title with the Picture
  • Figure Captions Change Incorrectly
  • Freezing Cell Size when Inserting Pictures
  • Keeping an Image Centered in a Table Cell
  • Automatically Formatting Graphics and Shapes
  • Understanding Page Border Art
  • Selectively Find and Replace Page Borders

Grids, the Canvas, and Connectors

  • Using the Drawing Grid
  • Unwanted Graph Paper Effect
  • Understanding the Drawing Canvas
  • Using Connectors with Shapes
  • Moving a Connector

Finding and Replacing Graphics

  • Searching and Replacing Graphics
  • Replacing Text with a Graphic
  • Replacing Graphics with Graphics
  • Searching for Floating Graphics with a Macro

Working with Chart

  • Starting Microsoft Graph
  • Picking a Chart Type
  • Changing Borders for Data Series
  • Turning Off Borders for Data Series
  • Adding Titles to a Chart
  • Adding a Border Around Text in a Chart
  • Displaying a Chart Legend
  • Adding Data Labels to a Chart
  • Selecting Fonts for a Chart
  • Specifying Colors in Chart
  • Editing the Color Palette in Chart
  • Changing the Perspective of Your Chart
  • Adjusting Chart Size
  • Changing the Default Chart Type
  • Selecting a Chart Pattern
  • Including a Data Table with Your Chart
  • Selecting a Custom Chart
  • Controlling Display of Chart Axes in Microsoft Graph
  • Specifying an Axis Scale in Microsoft Graph
  • Picking a Number Format for an Axis
  • Selecting Text Orientation for an Axis in Microsoft Graph
  • Controlling Chart Gridlines
  • Changing Shapes in Microsoft Graph
  • Formatting Datasheet Numbers
  • Deleting Datasheet Rows or Columns
  • Changing Datasheet Column Width
  • Including Datasheet Rows or Columns in a Chart
  • Changing the Orientation of Your Chart
  • Inserting Datasheet Rows or Columns
  • Converting Tables to Charts
  • Importing Excel Information into Chart

Printing Graphics

  • Images Won't Print
  • Missing Left Border
  • Upside-Down Printing
  • Printing a Document's Mirror Image
  • Printing Graphic Thumbnails
  • Gradient Prints as Stripes
  • Selecting Printing of Color Pictures
  • Changing Compression Print Resolution
  • Only Inline Figures Can be Seen and Printed
  • Always Printing Drawing Objects
  • Making Text Boxes Appear in a Printout
  • Using Non-Printing Text Boxes
  • Printing Images Based on Hidden Text Setting
  • Merging Graphics into Word Documents

Working with Graphics in Macros

  • Counting All Graphics
  • Scaling Graphics in a Macro
  • Determining Picture Size in a Macro
  • Replacing an Image Filename with the Actual Image
  • Inserting Multiple Graphics in a Document
  • Inserting a Formatted Text Box with a Macro
  • Finding and Removing Stubborn Graphics
  • Removing Pictures from Multiple Files
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