Insert menu Picture command From File is the command. Find the only graphics file that
is stored in the 021 folder of the J: drive. Insert it just below this paragraph for the first
step of the graphics lab. You will need to pull down the Look In: list to change drives.
You will need to double click on the 021 folder icon to open it up.
The photo is very large. We will reduce it to about 50% of its original size. Single click
on the photo so it has handles. How many handles does it have? The handles show you
it is selected. Use the Format menu Picture command. In that dialog box, choose the
Size tab. Change the Height or the Weight (in the Scale group) down to 50%. They
should both change. Click OK when you are done.
Click on the graphic image again (if it is not selected). Make the photo just a little bit
smaller by pressing the mouse button down on the lower right hand corner handle and
dragging it inward. When you let up the mouse, it is resized.
Grab one of the side handles of the graphic. Drag it over to the right margin, so it is
about 6 inches wide. Grab the bottom handle of the graphic and make it shorter. You
have just taken the graphic to the house of mirrors at the amusement park.
Restore the graphic to its undistorted version by undoing the last two commands. Do the
Edit menu Undo command twice. (Ask the instructor to show you an even better method
when you finish this task).
With the graphic selected, the Picture toolbar should be showing. Click you right mouse
button on any toolbar (the Standard and Formatting toolbars are probably showing too).
How many toolbars does Microsoft Word have? How many of them are checked?
Select the graphic again, if needed. Use the Edit menu Copy command to place it to the
Clipboard and then Edit menu Paste it below this paragraph. Using one of the corner
resizing handles, resize it to about ½ its size, so it is even smaller.
Click on the new smaller image. The Picture toolbar should be showing. Find the Text
Wrapping button (by pausing the mouse button over each button to see the tooltip
message popup). Change the text wrapping from Top and Bottom (the default) to Tight.
What change took place? Change the text wrapping to None. What change took place?
Change the text wrapping back to Top and Bottom to see the original again. Then change
it to Tight again.
Triple click in the preceeding paragraph (the one with the blue font) to select the entire
paragraph. Using the Format menu Font command, change the font color to red instead.
Using the Format menu Font command, change the letters sub in submarine to
subscripted style. Change the letters sup in superman to superscripted style. Change the
sub and sup in the words superscripted and subscripted too. Now, be sure the insertion
point is somewhere in this paragraph you are reading (so it is the active or selected
paragraph). The Format menu Drop Cop command should be done. Choose the Drop
Cap style of Dropped (instead of In Margin). Go back to the formerly blue paragraph
that you made into red words. Add a drop cap to that paragraph too.
Do the Window menu Split command. Size the split so that your top window is about
twice as large as the bottom window. Scroll the top window until you are back to the
first page of the document and your original graphic image.
Try the four different choices that button two on the Picture toolbar gives you. With the
Watermark choice, you could create a background for your letter or part of it. Expensive
stationary often has a watermark. Which textwrapping would have to be used to have the
text be visible and on top of the graphic?
Place a 1 point border around the graphic image. Try a 3 point border instead. Do you
like having a border (sort of a frame) around the graphic image. The border button (or
line button) is on the Picture toolbar.
Increase the contrast about 10 times to see the effect.
Decrease the contrast about 20 times to see the effect of that.
Increase the brightness and then decrease it again to see the effects of those operations on
the graphic image.
Edit menu Paste another copy of the graphic below this paragraph. You should then
select the graphic (so it has handles) and crop it down to just a small portion of the
original using the cropping tool.
Edit menu Paste another copy of the graphic here and select it (8 handles) and then
experiment with the different Text Wrappings that are available and also the Watermark
and Black and White and Grayscale changes it can undergo.