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This wikiHow teaches you how to anchor an image to a specific position in a Microsoft Word document.
Quick Steps
- Click on File and then Options .
- Choose Display and check the Object anchors box.
- Insert the image into your Word doc.
- Right-click on the image and select Size and position .
- Set the absolute position for your image and click OK .
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Open your Word document. Double-click the file to open it in Word.
- Another way to open the document is to open Word (in the Windows menu on a PC or the Applications folder on a Mac), click File , click Open , then double-click the file.
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Enable anchor labeling. This will help you keep track of where your anchors are set.
- Click the File menu.
- Click Options .
- Click Display .
- Check the box next to “Object anchors.”
- Click OK .
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Insert the image you wish to anchor. If you’ve already inserted your image, just scroll down to it now. Otherwise, here are a few different ways to get an image into your document:
- Click Picture on the Insert tab, then select the image.
- Drag an image to the document.
- Copy an image from somewhere else on your computer, then press Ctrl + V (Windows) or ⌘ Cmd + V (macOS) to paste.
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Right-click the image. A menu will appear.
- If you don’t have a right mouse button, hold down Ctrl as you click with the left button.
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Click Size and Position… . This brings you to the “Position” tab.
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Set the image’s absolute position. This defines where the image will be anchored. You’ll have a section for both horizontal and vertical absolute positions drop-downs.
- Horizontal: Select a distance from the first drop-down, and then select a relative page element. For example, to anchor the image 1” to the right of a column, select 1” and Column from the menus.
- Vertical: This is the same principal, but defines how far below a page element the image will be anchored. For example, to anchor an image 1” beneath the paragraph where it’s anchored, select 1" from the first drop-down, and Paragraph from the second. [1] X Research source
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Click Text Wrapping .
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Select a wrapping option. You can wrap text around an anchored image with every option except "In line with text.” Choose any option other than that.
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Click OK . You should now see an anchor icon above the image’s top-left corner, meaning the image is now anchored to its position.
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