Microsoft Word

Working with images and text often requires adjusting the size of the image to squeeze it into a small area or expand it to fill the available space, to cropping the image to make it more appealing, or adjusting the size of multiple images to the same height or width.

Microsoft Word allows you to do all the above and more. We will explain the several methods available, in simple steps:

6 Ways to Resize Image in MS word

• Resize an image by cropping it
• Resize an image by stretching, shrinking, or changing its size
• Resize an image maintaining its aspect ratio
• Resize an image to an exact height and width
• Resize an image in percentages
• Resize multiple images quickly

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Mirroring or flipping text may be necessary for decorating your Word document or for printing the text on fabric or parchment for further transfer.

Flipping text by 180 degrees changes the nature of the text, making it possible to read it only in a mirror, hence this is also known as mirroring.

Rotating a text by 180 degrees along the X-axis (around the Y-axis) causes a horizontal flip, while rotating it by 180 degrees along the Y-axis (around the X-axis) causes a vertical flip.

In both cases, the result produces a mirror image of the original—you need a mirror to read the text—with a different axis in each case.

Rotating the text in the X-Y plane (around the Z-axis) by any angle keeps the text readable always—a mirror is not necessary.

Word allows rotating text at different angles on any axis, provided you define the text by enclosing it in a text box.

When you flip the text by 180 degrees on a specific axis, you create a mirror image of the original text on that axis.

Word has a special name for such rotation—3D Rotation—on any of the three axes.

We will show you how to mirror or flip text in Word using 3-D Rotation.

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It is useful to be able to mirror or flip an image if you are printing it on an iron-on transfer paper for transferring it to fabric, parchment, or wax paper.

Although Word does not have great photo editing features, it allows rudimentary functions like rotating images, shapes, or text you have embedded in documents.

What happens to text, images, and shapes when you rotate them, flip them horizontally, or flip them vertically? 

Notice that flipping does not affect images much―you can still recognize the image. However, flipping changes the character of the text entirely―you need a mirror to read the flipped text. That is why the term mirroring for text.

Word allows flipping images and shapes directly, but for mirroring text, Word requires that you enclose the text within a Text Box, and use 3-D rotation. We will show you two ways how you can mirror or flip an object:

• Flipping images and shapes
• Mirroring text

Let us see how to do all the above.

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By default, Word keeps track of every line, word, and character in a document, and displays their numbers when the user demands.

Although Word normally does not display line numbers automatically, you can choose to do so.

For instance, you can ask Word to display line numbers in the entire document or only in some part.

You can also choose to display line numbers at certain intervals, say, at every tenth line as 10, 20, 30, 40, and so on.

Adding line numbers to a document has its advantages, especially for large documents with multiple pages.

This is useful when referring to a specific line or word in a document—like 254^th line, or 4^th word in the 50^th line, and so on.

Just a note before we begin.

If you have tables, figures, or text boxes in your document, Word will count them as single line entities, regardless of how large they are.

Moreover, Word will display line numbers for documents only in the Print Layout, and not in Read Mode or Web Layout.

Let us start adding line numbers to our Word document.

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Recently we published a post which explained how you can easily clone a word document.

However, sometimes it is necessary to duplicate a part of the document you are writing in Word and paste it into either the same or another document.

How to duplicate a page in a Word Document.

You can do this in two ways:

• Duplicate a Page Using Keyboard Shortcuts
• Duplicate a Page Using Word Menus

We will explain both the methods step-by-step. Let us begin.

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If you are going to insert images along with text in a Word document, the anchor helps, just as its name suggests, in positioning them in different ways.

For instance, you may want the image to remain anchored in the document text in a certain paragraph while allowing the text to wrap around the image.

The wrapping can have several options, such as arranging the text to appear above or below the image, over the image, or behind it. In short, an anchor in a Word document ensures that the text wraps around the image just as you intend it to.

However, you may want the image to move freely with the text in the document, that is,  allow it to be in line with the text.

Word does not use an anchor when the image is in-line with the text, as it treats the image as a character within a sentence in the document.

Although the anchor is a useful tool allowing you greater creative freedom when you are adding images to your document, there are times when you do not want it.

2 ways to remove anchor in Word

• Stop object anchors from showing
• Remove the anchor icon

Let us begin.

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Word uses page breaks to separate one page from the next. This may be necessary to position a table or an image completely on a page, without partly spilling over to the next page.

Printers use page breaks to know when to start with fresh paper. Useful as they are, page breaks can mess up a Word document, if their location has changed due to say, multiple edits—necessitating their removal.

Most users face trouble when removing page breaks.

They may be following the correct sequence for removing the breaks, but somehow, it does not work.

Stubborn page breaks are mainly due to enabling of track changes.

2 ways to remove Page breaks in MS Word

• Remove page breaks individually
• Remove page breaks through Find and Replace

Let us start.

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Word allows you to separate your styles in a document with section breaks. However, after many viewers have edited a document, the section breaks may no longer exhibit proper formatting. You may have to delete section breaks to fix the problem.

2 ways to remove/delete section breaks in a word document

• Delete section breaks individually
• Delete all section breaks using Find and Replace

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After an extensive proof-reading or editing, a Word document may contain multiple track changes and/or comments in the markup area.

Even after accepting the changes and resolving the comments, some of them may linger on in the document, popping up occasionally.

As comments are also involved with tracked changes, it is necessary to either accept or reject the changes, and stop the tracking, before deleting the comments.

Word allows you to do this individually or collectively. 

While dealing with tracked changes individually, you can also resolve the associated comment, before moving on to the next change and its comment.

However, you can also attend to all tracked changes first and then collectively remove the comments.

Therefore, we will show you how to:

• Accept changes individually or collectively
• Reject changes individually or collectively
• Delete comments individually
• Delete comments collectively

Let’s begin.

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