Printing Multiple Photos on a Single Page
I've been asked how to print a group of snapshots on a standard letter-size sheet of paper. The easiest way is to use your word processor to create a blank page, followed by inserting photos into it. By placing each photo in a "text box," they can be moved around on the page to your liking.
In MSWord, go to Insert>Text Box. In recent versions of Word, a box will appear with gray edges. If you click any edge, the box will change size and display a blinking cursor in its upper left corner. In older Word versions, going to Insert>Text Box will turn your cursor into a small cross, with which you can draw a box of the approximate size and shape needed to hold a photo. Then click inside the box.
Now that you have a box containing a blinking cursor, go to Insert>Picture>From File, and browse to a desired photo. Double-click it to insert it into the box. At this point you may have to fine-tune the box's shape to accommodate the enclosed picture's size. Grab any edge or corner to reshape it.
To move a box, click on any edge. When your cursor changes to a four-arrow pointer you can move the box and its enclosed picture around on the page.
Repeat the above steps for each additional photo you want on the page.
If you now choose to print the page, each text box will show up as a frame around its picture. To make a frame invisible, click on it and go to:
Format>Text Box>Colors & Lines>Line>Color and choose No Line.
Why are these frames called "text boxes?" It's because text can be typed into a box and formatted using your standard Word toolbar, whereupon the box can be moved to anywhere on a Word page. This is often done if the page is an advertisement of some kind, which would benefit from having key phrases enlarged and displayed as colorful attention-getters.
This also applies to any kind of a document into which you might want to place a picture and have the body text flow around it.
Making Text Flow Around a Picture
Choose an insertion point in an existing document where you would like a picture (or some special text, or both) to appear. Use the above steps to put the moveable box where you want it. Doing this, however, will cause the box to cover some of your text. To make the text flow around it, click on the box and go to Format>Text Box>Layout and choose from the miniature illustrations of various types of text flow.
Resizing a Picture on a Word Processing Page
Getting back to placing multiple pictures on a blank page, an image can be resized by simply clicking on a corner and moving your mouse accordingly. Dragging an image's corner will maintain its aspect ratio, while clicking on an edge will cause the image to be distorted as it is adjusted.
Be aware that image-bearing word processing pages tend to have very large file sizes, and may not be suitable for sending as email attachments. But they print beautifully.
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