The Microsoft® Word text editor offers comprehensive tools for creating an interactive document complete with hyperlinks, pictures, graphs, and other objects. People often use the function of inserting images into their document if they want to illustrate a situation with a photograph, graphic image or screenshot that has been saved. In the instructions below, you will find that inserting a picture into a Microsoft Word® 2010 document is a very simple process.
Instructions:
- Open the Microsoft® Word application.
- Open the file you would like to insert into the document as a picture, or create a new file.
- Put your cursor where you want the picture to appear.
- In the main navigation bar, switch to the “Insert” tab and click on the “Picture” icon.
- Browse for the file and select it.
- Click on the “Insert” button and your picture should appear at the desired place in the Word document.
Tips and Tricks:
- If you don’t want to save an image on your computer, you can use the copy/paste function (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V).
- To learn how to take a screenshot, follow the steps in the article that focuses on taking and saving a screenshot.
- To move the image, click on it and drag the mouse while you are holding the left mouse button.
