In Microsoft Word, you can wrap text around a picture. The default text wrapping for a picture is In Line with Text. This type of alignment makes Word treat the picture like an individual character of text, wherever you put it. As the text floats, the picture floats, too. In this mode, the options are limited as to where you can place the picture because it has to remain associated with a paragraph.
On the Format tab is the Wrap Text button, which opens a menu of alternative text wrap choices. Here, you can specify how the picture should interact with the adjacent text. This works on both clip art and photos. Here are the choices:
Microsoft Word helps you incorporate images and text together in order to illustrate a document. You can learn to wrap text around images in order to change the default settings. Text wrapping allows you to place text behind an image, in.
- In Line with Text: The picture is a part of the paragraph; the text doesn’t wrap around it.
- Square: Text wraps around the picture’s rectangular outer frame.
- Tight: If the picture is clip art that doesn’t have a colored background, the text wraps around the edges of the image itself, not of its rectangular frame. Otherwise, it’s the same as Square.
- Behind Text: The text appears as an overlay on top of the picture.
- In Front of Text: The image appears over the top of the text, partially obscuring it.
- Top and Bottom: The picture interrupts the text, which flows above or below it. The picture is on a line all by itself.
- Through: Mostly the same as Tight.
Click the 'See More' link at the bottom of the Layout Options menu and click the 'Text Wrapping' tab in the Layout window that opens. In addition to selecting the text wrapping style, you can select which sides of the picture you want the text wrapped on in this window. You can adjust text wrapping in Print Layout, Notebook Layout, Publishing Layout, and Full Screen views. Using contextual menus to wrap text in Word 2011. The fastest way to get at the Wrap Text options is to right-click an object. This produces a pop-up menu from which you can choose Wrap Text.
Wrapping text around pictures, shapes, tables, charts, and other page elements (a feature that is common in page layout software) is not supported in PowerPoint. There are a few workaround methods you can use to mimic text wrapping in a PowerPoint presentation.
Instructions in this article apply to PowerPoint 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010; PowerPoint for Office 365, and PowerPoint Online.
Manually Insert Spaces in Text to Mimic Text Wrapping
If you have a small graphic and want the text to read from left to right while skipping over the graphic in the middle, here's how you do it:
- Select the graphic that you want to wrap text around on a slide.
- Go to Home, select Arrange, and choose Send to Back. Or, right-click on the image and choose Send to Back.If Send to Back is grayed out, the graphic is already there.
- Create a text box over the image and type or paste text into the text box.
- Place the cursor in the text so that it is in the upper left corner of the part of the image that you want the text to flow around. Use the spacebar or tab to create a visual break in the text. As each line of the text nears the left side of the object, use the spacebar or tab several times to move the rest of the line of text to the right side of the object.
Mimic Text Wrapping Around Rectangular Shapes
Use several text boxes when you are wrapping text around square or rectangular shapes. You might use one wide text box above the square shape, then two narrower text boxes, one on each side of the shape, and then another wide text box under the shape.
How To Wrap Text On Word
Import Wrapped Text From Microsoft Word
If you use PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016 or PowerPoint 2013, import wrapped text from Word into PowerPoint.
- Open the PowerPoint slide where you want to use text wrapping.
- Go to Insert and choose Object.
- Choose Microsoft Word Document from the Object type list and select OK to open a Word window.
- In the Word window, insert an image and type or paste your text.
- Select the image, go to Picture Tools Format, select Wrap Text, and choose Tight. Or, right-click on the image, point to Wrap Text, and choose Tight.
- Select the PowerPoint slide to see the wrapped text. (If you use PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, close the Word file to see the wrapped text in PowerPoint.) In PowerPoint, the image and wrapped text are in a single box that can be moved and resized.
- To edit the wrapped text, double-click the box to re-open Word and make the changes there.