You can try on a filter by positioning the mouse over the filter you’re considering. A gallery of artistic filters appears so that you can try different looks for the picture. Click it and then click Artistic Effects, in the Adjust group on the far left side of the ribbon. The Picture Tools Format tab becomes available. Once you’ve added the picture to the page, select it.

Word 2013 gives you a number of tools you can use to apply special artistic effects to the images in your document. Today’s documents need some kind of illustration, if you want to hold peoples’ attention. Word then adds it to the document at the cursor position. Navigate to the folder containing the image you want to add, click or tap it, and choose Insert. When you click Browse, the dialog box changes to display the subfolders you’ve added to SkyDrive. You can search for clip art on, use Bing to find pictures you’re looking for, or access your own SkyDrive account to grab images you’ve saved in cloud storage (see Figure 1).įigure 1 Choose your SkyDrive option to insert a picture you've saved in the cloud You can also add shapes, create a SmartArt diagram, insert a chart, or even add a screenshot of your computer screen at the cursor position.Ĭhoose Online Pictures, and Word 2013 displays a dialog box with three choices. You can add a picture that you’ve already saved on your computer or flash drive by clicking the Picture tool add a picture from an online source (either using a search engine or by choosing a picture you’ve saved in the cloud) with the Online Pictures tool. The Illustrations group of the Insert tab actually offers you five different tools you can use to add art to your document. Then click the Insert tab in Word 2013 to display your picture choices. Your first step in adding a picture to your document is to position the cursor at the point where you want to add the image. And once you add the image to your page, you can enhance it by applying a number of artistic filters, adding borders, tweaking the way text flows around it, and much more. But now in Word 2013, adding pictures is easier than ever, and it is a simple task to find and insert images, whether they are stored on your computer, in the cloud, or anywhere on the web. The ability to add pictures to a document is nothing new: We’ve been inserting pictures for years in Microsoft Word. Office 2013 All-In-One Absolute Beginner's Guide

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