Microsoft Word Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

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Add simple graphic elements

In this chapter

• Insert, move, and resize pictures

• Edit and format pictures

• Provide additional information about pictures

• Insert screen clippings

• Insert and format icons

• Draw and modify shapes

• Build equations

Many documents that you create in Word contain only text. Others might benefit from the addition of graphic elements to reinforce their concepts, to grab the reader’s attention, or to make them more visually appealing.

The term graphics generally refers to several kinds of visual objects, including photos, clip-art images, diagrams, charts, and shapes. You can insert all these types of graphics as objects in a document and then size, move, and copy them.

This chapter guides you through procedures related to ...