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• Understand illustrations in Word

• Modify a picture

• Edit charts

• Create SmartArt

• Edit clip art

ObjectivesObjectives

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• Use layering options

• Align, distribute, and rotate graphics

• Insert a watermark and a page border

ObjectivesObjectives

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Understanding Illustrations in Word

• Illustration types and contextual tabs

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Modifying a Picture

• Use the tools on the Picture Tools Format tab to modify a picture in hundreds of different ways

• You can• Apply a preset picture style• Further modify the style by

• Cropping it• Changing the shape of the picture• Modifying the picture border• Apply picture effects

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Modifying a Picture

• Cropping a picture

Before After

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Editing Charts

• Can modify charts with tools contained on three Chart Tools contextual tabs

• Design tab• Modify the appearance and content of the chart

itself

• Layout tab• Modify the appearance of the various chart

components

• Format tab• Modify the appearance of the drawing canvas that

contains the chart

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Editing Charts

• Adding new chart data

A third bar is added to each data series

New data for 2008

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Editing Charts

• Completed bar and 3-D pie charts

Pie chart

Bar chart

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Creating SmartArt

• You can create seven types of SmartArt graphics• Once you have selected a type, you

select a layout and then type text in each of the SmartArt shapes or in the text pane

• You can further modify a SmartArt graphic by changing fill colors, shape styles, and layouts

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Creating SmartArt

• Names and positions for organization chart

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Creating SmartArt

• Completed SmartArt graphics

Pyramid SmartArt

Hierarchy SmartArt

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Editing Clip Art

• A clip art picture from the Clip Organizer is made up of a number of separate objects• All of the objects are grouped together

when you insert the clip art picture• Ungroup a clip art to edit its individual

objects• The drawing canvas is an area upon

which you can draw multiple shapes and insert clip art

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Editing Clip Art

• Selecting all objects in the picture

Blue handles appear around each selected object in the picture

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Editing Clip Art

• Two methods to convert a clip art picture into a drawing object:• Right-click a clip art picture and select

Edit Picture from the menu• Change the clip art picture from an

inline graphic to a floating graphic

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Using Layering Options

• The Order command on the Draw menu includes commands to layer objects relative to each other• Layering options include:

• Bring to Front• Bring Forward• Bring in Front of Text• Send to Back• Send Backward• Send Behind Text

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Using Layering Options

Bridge object appears in front of the bear

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Aligning, Distributing, and Rotating Graphics

• The Align and Distribute option on the Draw menu includes commands you can use to change the relative positioning of two or more objects

• The Alignment commands align objects relative to each other: left, right, center

• The Distribute commands distributes the same amount of space between objects

• The Rotate command allows you to rotate an object on its axis

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Aligning, Distributing, and Rotating Graphics

• Stars aligned, distributed, and positioned

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Inserting a Watermark and a Page Border

• A watermark is a picture or other type of graphic object that appears lightly shaded behind text in a document

• A page border encloses one or more pages of a document

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Inserting a Watermark and a Page Border

Watermark

Page border

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Inserting a Watermark and a Page Border

• Printing a page border• If a page border doesn't print correctly,

open the Borders and Shading dialog box, click Options on the Page Border tab, then increase the point size of the margins

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Summary

• Modifying a Picture• Use the tools on the Picture tools

Format tab• Pictures can be modified in hundreds of

ways

• Editing Charts• Three Chart Tools contextual tabs

• Design• Layout• Format

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Summary

• Creating SmartArt• Create seven types of SmartArt

graphics• Select type of graphic, then select a layout

and type text in each of the SmartArt shapes

• Further modify a SmartArt graphic by changing

• Fill colors• Shape styles• Layouts

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Summary

• Editing Clip Art• A clip art picture is made up of a

number of separate objects• All objects are grouped together when you

insert the clip art picture• Ungroup the clip art picture to edit its

individual objects

• Convert clip art pictures• Right-click and select Edit Picture• Change from an inline graphic to a floating

graphic

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Summary

• Aligning, Distributing, and Rotating Graphics• Alignment commands align objects

relative to each other• Distribute commands distribute the

same amount of space between objects• Rotate command allows you to rotate

an object on its axis

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Summary

• Inserting a Watermark and a Page Border• Watermark

• A picture or graphic object that appears lightly shaded behind text

• Page border• Encloses one or more pages of a

document