How to group a picture and a shape/text box in Microsoft Word 2013? I have discovered that I can't group pictures as well. Does 'Group' command concerned with grouping shapes only? Are there any workarounds to this problem?
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A solution (I don't know if it is the best) is to use Powerpoint 2013. Add your picture, add your shapes, group them, then select the picture and Copy and Paste into your Word document.
You will have to change the anchor options to 'in-line with text', but the shape should move and scale with the picture.
Feb 08, 2016 In this video, you’ll learn the basics of aligning, ordering, and grouping objects in Word 2016. Visit https://www.gcflearnfree.org/word2016/aligning-orderin. If the anchor is connected to a particular paragraph, then the picture will move together with the text if new text is inserted above that paragraph - but not if the new text is within that paragraph, between the anchor location and the picture position. Use a Word text box to add definition and make it stand out. Text boxes in Word are used to draw attention to specific text. To move a text box: Click the text box you want to move. Hover the mouse over one of the edges of the text box. Change the shape of the text box to Double Wave from the Stars and Banners group.
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The important part of this method is that you can still make edits to the shapes if necessary.
EDIT: Note that others below have found a way to do this within Word.
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Solution for 2007 (which may work in 2013)
It is a real shame that pictures and textboxes/shapes can't be grouped in more recent versions of word. I heard that if you add a textbox, click on properties, fill, and add the image as a fill picture of a textbox then one would be able to group with other textboxes, but I have not found this to be possible.
UNTIL I made sure that the textbox containing the image and the shapes and textboxes that I wanted to group it with had the same Text Wrapping setting (in front of text). Then I could group them, and change the text wrapping back to inline for the whole group. In earlier version of Word, the text wrapping was automatically unified to that of one or other grouped item but now this must be done manually in 2007. I hope that this works for 2013 too.
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Change the 'Layout Options' of the picture to 'Top to bottom'. Then, shapes and picture can be selected altogether and 'Group'.
Here are the screenshots of changing layout options:
and grouping shapes and picture:
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Do you want something REALLY easy? move to the page where all your Pics, and shapes are located, press 'Windows logo key'+s, this will shoot OneNote screen capture. Click and drag the pointer to select the area of the screen you want to capture (be sure to include all objects you want to group) When you release the mouse button, the image will appear in your notes. It will also be copied to the Windows Clipboard so you can paste (CTRL+V) the screen clipping on another page in your word document or into any other program or document as an image. Be sure Microsoft's OneNote is running or this won't work..
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You can try this: insert the image from the
Insert tab (up top next to Home). Don't drag the image into Word (you can but you won't be able to group it with textbox/shape). Then edit wrap text to behind/in front. Control click on both image and shape/textbox and group.
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If your .docx Word file is in compatibility mode you can't group pictures with shapes. Turn off compatibility mode and then grouping pictures with shapes will work so long as one changes the word wrapping to something other then in line with text.
FrankFrank
I found a way to create a new picture. This would not allow you to adjust afterward, because it makes a new picture, but it worked for my purposes.
Set up the picture and text box(es), shapes, whatever you want grouped together and press the 'prt sc' button. Paste the screenshot into Word and right click on the screenshot to select crop. Crop the picture as needed and you have your object. When I did this, it came out smaller than the original, so I had to resize it, but I didn't have any trouble with the resolution.
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I stumbled across something interesting..
Right click on the picture and select 'Wrap Text'. If it is set to 'In Line with Text' you cannot group it with a text box. However, if you set it to 'Tight', you can now Group Pictures and Text Box. Now you can reset the Grouped item to 'In Line with Text' if you want.
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Mark A.Mark A.
I tried using the canvas under the Shapes tab. Copy and paste all your shapes and images that you want to group on the canvas, then group whilst on the canvas. After grouping Copy and paste off the canvas. This may work?
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I found that I can use a table for corralling graphics. I insert a one cell table and add all the graphics, text, etc. to this cell, and I can group or just leave them all individually positioned.
A couple of things you must do: format table for flow in the text; format the cell for vertical & horizontal center; change picture format to one that will stay within the table cell; create a style for the cell or modify the table cell so that the images have some sort of boundary (i.e. 4pt/2pt before and after paragraph spacing, center justify, etc.), if you adjust the table cell, you'll still want a style with center justify and 0pt before and after spacing.
Once you have this 'illustration table' setup you can save it to the building block organizer for future use! (Found at Insert tab>text>Quick Parts). I found this to be a handy method for creating safety notes: WARNING Watch out.. where WARNING is a graphic, and the other cell is text.
Hope this helps!
Jim-skiJim-ski
To Group shapes and or pictures together, find the Select tool in the Home tab. Click the drop down to Select Objects and use the tool to select them.
All your objects will show with a border around them.
Then go to the Page Layout tab and click Group. The borders around the individual objects you selected will change to one border around the group you've just made.
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You can easily add all sorts of objects to a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac. Word 2011 gives you shortcuts to position an object in your document. Here’s how to get at them:
When you put an object into a Word document and then add text or other content earlier in the document, your object moves down along with the text in the document. A word-processing document flows that way so that your objects stay in the same relative position to the text as you add or delete text and objects. You can change this behavior, though.
You can make an object stay in an exact position in the document so that text flows around the object, and it doesn’t move with the text — this is known as anchoring. Think of this as dropping a boat anchor — water flows by, but the boat stays in the same position relative to the shore. In Word, if you anchor an object to a margin, the object stays in the same relative position. Nonanchored objects and text flow around the object. This anchoring capability is a basis of publishing programs, so it’s natural to use it in Word’s Publishing Layout and Print Layout views. Follow these steps to anchor an object in Word: Notepad++ text editor download.
Text now flows according to the settings you made, and the object is anchored to the position you selected. Although you can still drag the object to new positions on the page, it won’t move when you add or delete text.
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