Graphic Layout Simplified

When you’re ready to paste a graphic into your Word document, first ask yourself the following question: Would you prefer to spend the next 20 minutes of your life struggling to position that graphic, only to give up and decide it’s close enough when you simply can take no more, or do you have something better to do with that time?

If you have something better to do, and I hope that you do, just remember the following four words: in line with text.

It might seem as though text wrapping options such as Tight or Square, shown here, are the easiest way to get the layout you want. But, positioning and anchoring can be complicated and documents can become much more difficult to manage.

Instead, when you use the In Line With Text ...

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