Using the corner handles is clumsy in this situation. Sometimes Word will automatically adjust the image to fit the document, it seems to depend on how you insert the image. Most of the picture, is off to the right or below the window. When you add an image sometimes you only see the top, right corner. The dimensions of many images are much larger than a document, worksheet, presentation or email. Some web sites block the image copying options. No need to ‘Save As …’ to an intermediate copy on your drive. Some web browsers have a choice to copy an image directly into the clipboard.Ĭhoose ‘Copy image’, then just paste into your document. Multiple images can be selected, copied and pasted together. It’s also possible to ‘drag and drop’ images from Explorer directly into the document. Then switch to Word, Excel or PowerPoint and paste the image (Ctrl + V). Right-click on an image and select Copy or use Ctrl + C The Preview pane in Explorer shows a decent sized version to help selection. Just grab the image and drop it into the document.įrom Explorer, choose the photo you want. See Images – Inserted or Linked? Drop the photo That’s the default but there are options to insert the image, link to the file on the disk or a mix of both. The simple way is to use Insert | Picture choose the image file from your computer and it’ll be added to the document. There’s also privacy and image size issues to consider.
Outlook has its own special needs, different from Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You’d hope there was a single way to do that but, as usual, there’s plenty of options.
You’ve chosen an image, now you have to get it into your Office document.