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Word Lesson 4Working with Graphic Objects

Microsoft Office 2010 Fundamentals

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Objectives

Insert and modify illustrations. Insert and modify objects. Create and modify tables.

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Vocabulary

building blocks cell chart clip art crop drawing objects drop cap floating object inline object

picture Quick Part screenshot selection handles SmartArt graphic table text box text wrapping WordArt

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Introduction

Graphics are visual components that add impact to documents and help explain the meaning of text.

Use buttons on the Insert tab to insert various types of graphic objects and tables.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations

The Illustrations group on the Insert tab provides options for working with pictures, shapes, clip art, SmartArt, charts, and screenshots.

When you click a button in the Illustrations group, you will be able to choose the graphic you want to insert using a dialog box, task pane, or menu, depending on the type of illustration.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying Pictures: Use the Insert Picture from File button in the

Illustrations group to insert a picture. When a picture is inserted at the insertion point, it is an

inline object that moves with the text around it. Text does not wrap around it.

A floating object is not connected to the text in a document; text can wrap around a floating object several different ways or flow in front of or behind it.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying Pictures (cont):

Drag selection handles to resize a graphic.

Use the green rotate circle at the top of a graphic to rotate the graphic on its central axis left or right.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying Shapes:

The Shapes button in the Illustrations group on the Insert tab displays a menu containing lines, rectangles, basic shapes, block arrows, equation shapes, flowchart elements, stars and banners, and callouts that you can insert into documents.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying Clip Art:

The Clip Art button in the Illustrations group displays the Clip Art task pane.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying SmartArt: The Insert SmartArt Graphic button in the Illustrations

group displays the Choose a SmartArt Graphic dialog box.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying SmartArt (continued): After you insert a SmartArt graphic, contextual tabs are

displayed as well as a Text pane for entering text.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying Charts: The Chart button in the Illustrations group on the Insert

tab displays the Insert Chart dialog box.

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Inserting and Modifying Illustrations (continued)

Inserting and Modifying Charts (cont): When you create a chart, you enter data

into an Excel worksheet. After you insert a chart, Word displays the

Chart Tools Design, Layout, and Format contextual tabs for customizing the chart.

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Inserting and Modifying Screenshots

The Screenshot button in the Illustrations group lets you insert a picture of a computer screen or part of a screen, such as window or button.

The Screen Clipping command on the Screenshot menu lets you use the mouse to cut out and insert any part of a screen into your document.

After you insert a screenshot or clipping, you can modify it using the Picture Tools Format tab.

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Inserting and Modifying Objects

You can use objects that are largely made up of text as graphic elements in documents. Use the buttons in the Text group of the Insert tab to insert Text boxes, WordArt, drop caps, and Quick Parts.

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Inserting and Modifying Objects (continued)

Inserting a Text Box: A textbox is a container for text that can be

positioned and modified like a graphic object in a document.

The Text Box button displays the Text Box gallery, which contains predesigned text boxes you can insert into documents, or you can draw a new blank text box.

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Inserting and Modifying Objects (continued)

Inserting and Modifying WordArt:

WordArt turns text characters into graphic images.

The WordArt button displays a gallery of WordArt options.

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Inserting and Modifying Objects (continued)

Inserting a Drop Cap: A drop cap is a large initial

capital letter or a large first word used to add interest to text.

The Drop Cap button displays a menu with options for inserting a drop cap within a paragraph or in the margin.

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Inserting and Modifying Objects (continued)

Creating and Inserting Quick Parts: A Quick Part is a type of building block

made up of an image and/or text that you can create, save, and reuse, such as a company logo or address.

The Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery command saves a selected set of graphics and/or text as a Quick Part.

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Inserting and Modifying Objects (continued)

Creating and Inserting Quick Parts (cont): Once you save a selection as a building block, it

becomes available in the Quick Parts gallery.

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Creating and Modifying Tables

A table is a grid of horizontal rows and vertical columns of numbers, text, or graphics.

Word offers several ways to create a table using the Table button in the Tables group on the Insert tab.

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Creating and Modifying Tables (continued)

Creating a Table: Use the Table button

menu in the Tables group on the Insert tab to display the Insert Table dialog box where you can specify the number of columns and rows.

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Creating and Modifying Tables (continued)

Modifying a Table: You can apply different

fonts, font styles, and font sizes to table text the same way you apply them to other text.

You can use the Table Styles gallery on the Table Tools Design tab to apply pre-designed formats to a table.

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned: To insert and modify pictures, shapes, clip art,

SmartArt, charts, and screenshots to add visual impact to documents.

That text objects such as text boxes, WordArt, drop caps, and Quick Parts can be used to add interest to documents.

Text can be efficiently aligned and presented in rows and columns using tables.

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