How to Wrap Text Around a Picture in a Microsoft Word Document

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Dave Andrews. Today, I'm going to show you how to wrap text around a picture in a Microsoft Word document. Let's open up Word by going to Start, All Programs, Microsoft Office, and select Word. I'm going to type in some text for us to have what looks like a paragraph. I'm going to copy and paste this text multiple times, just for test purposes. As you can see, we have something that appears to be a paragraph. Let's go back to the beginning, and let's insert our picture. I'm going to go to Insert up at the top. Select Picture and From File. Let's find our picture that we want. Now this picture is fairly large. So click on it, and that adds these little resizing handles at the sides and the bottom. Let's resize this picture to a smaller size. That would be great, except that we have all of this white space that we want to fill with our text and have it wrap around as it reaches the bottom of the image. To do that, click on the image, right click, and go to Format Picture. Select the Layout tab. And for wrapping style, we want to do Square. And horizontal alignment, we want to align it to the left. Click OK. Our text is now wrapping around this image perfectly. My name is Dave Andrews, and I've just showed you how to wrap text around an image in Microsoft Word."