Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office XP

Wrapping Text Around Graphics

Word makes it easy to wrap text around a graphic. Insert the graphic into your document (for example, by choosing Insert, Picture), right-click the graphic, and choose Format Picture (or Format AutoShape). Click the Layout tab (see Figure 16.23) and choose how you want the text to wrap.

Figure 16.23. Word does a decent job of wrapping text tightly around a picture, but you can do better.

If you want to wrap text tightly around an odd-shaped graphic, start with the Tight option in the Format Picture (or Format AutoShape) dialog box shown in Figure 16.23.

But if you need to wrap text even tighter, you have to turn to ...