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Edit exactly how text wraps “through” your shape or picture.

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Shapes, Edit Wrap Points

Adjust text wrapping points around shapes and pictures.

When to use

When you want text to show through specific areas of a shape or picture, rather than just wrapping around the outer perimeter.

Instructions:

To wrap the text into the background of the flower, but not into the blossoms and buds.  Begin by first dragging the picture over the top of the textbox.

1. The text box must be “Sent Backward” in order to force text to wrap around the shape or picture.

            

2.  The Wrap Text on the shape or picture should be set to “tight” and wrap points must be edited.  “Edit Wrap Points”

             

3.  The Picture must be set to Transparency
Right click the picture, Format Picture, set Transparency to 50%

     

A review and comparison of how Send Backward affects text wrapping:

Before:                                                                                      After:

Text box placed over a shape                                                   Text box “Send Backward”
               - shape: no wrap applied.                                                        - shape: wrap text: Square

     

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  • 00:04 I'd like to show you an advanced feature on how to edit the wrap points around
  • 00:08 a shape or a picture.
  • 00:10 Basically you're gonna determine where the text wraps around a picture or a shape.
  • 00:15 So I have the instructions right here on the center of the screen but
  • 00:18 also off to the left.
  • 00:20 And the picture we're gonna use is on the right hand side.
  • 00:23 I'd like as much screen room as possible so I'm going to collapse my ribbons
  • 00:27 simply with a double click on any one of the ribbon titles.
  • 00:30 Click click.
  • 00:31 And now I can just see more on my screen.
  • 00:33 All right, I'm going to move the picture right over the top of the text and
  • 00:36 let go and notice the text still goes right through the picture.
  • 00:40 Because I have to send the text to the back.
  • 00:43 So I'll click on the edge of the text box.
  • 00:46 Right up here on my drawing tools format, I have a Send Backward button.
  • 00:50 Now it didn't wrap around the picture,
  • 00:53 because no wrapping has been set on the picture.
  • 00:56 Next, I'm gonna click on the picture.
  • 00:58 And we're gonna set the wrapping to be tight.
  • 01:00 So the picture selected, I can tell by the handles, I'll zoom in a little bit.
  • 01:05 Right up here, I have my Picture Tools Format, click on that,
  • 01:08 go to my Wrap Text, and choose Tight.
  • 01:11 Now you'll notice the text just adjusted and
  • 01:14 is wrapping tightly around the parameter.
  • 01:16 But I want the text to kind of write itself into this background corner.
  • 01:20 In this background corner, just not over the blossom or the buds.
  • 01:23 So now what I'm going to do is, the picture is still selected,
  • 01:26 I'm going to go back to my wrap text and I'm going to choose edit wrap points and
  • 01:30 my handles are going to change.
  • 01:32 Click that and notice, I'll zoom in a little more so you can see better.
  • 01:36 This little tiny corner when I float my mouse I have an entire new mouse handle.
  • 01:41 I'm gonna click and drag that wrap point just about right there and now notice,
  • 01:46 the text is wrapped and it just wrapped a little in the background.
  • 01:50 And then do the same thing down here, click and
  • 01:53 drag just right there and the texted wrap.
  • 01:57 But you can't see through the picture.
  • 01:59 But I bet you could see through it if we made that picture transparent.
  • 02:03 And that is the final trick.
  • 02:05 All right. So I'm gonna activate the picture again.
  • 02:08 Just click on the picture.
  • 02:09 I have my normal picture handles.
  • 02:12 And now I'm gonna go into my picture tools format and
  • 02:16 way over here on the left is a button that says corrections.
  • 02:19 On the bottom of that it says picture correction options, and
  • 02:24 now I have a transparency.
  • 02:26 I can click and drag the lever and hope to get to 50%, or
  • 02:29 I could just type 50% and hit the Okay button.
  • 02:33 And there we go, I just made the picture transparent which is fine.
  • 02:36 In this case it looks just fine.
  • 02:38 I'm going to go ahead and zoom down so you can see the final effect.
  • 02:43 And look at that, I have controlled where my text wraps through that picture.
  • 02:48 And it's a great feature as long as you know about it.
  • 02:52 Now there's another thing we could do on the format instead of going to the format
  • 02:57 ribbon and the corrections, a simple right-click on the picture itself
  • 03:03 gives us the format picture and right in here takes you right to your transparency.
  • 03:08 So it's up to you on how you get there, but
  • 03:10 it's important to know you can do that.
  • 03:12 Now if I move that picture completely off, all the text wraps normally again.
  • 03:18 If you want, I could insert a shape and I could choose, let's see, an arrow shape.
  • 03:25 And draw a shape right here.
  • 03:28 Now it automatically wraps to the shape in,
  • 03:31 in this case I don't really have to do any special wrapping.
  • 03:36 Edit wrap points but if you want to you can do the same thing.
  • 03:39 And I can actually edit wrap points right here, of course,
  • 03:43 I'd still have to make it transparent in order to see that text through there.
  • 03:46 But it might be worth doing.
  • 03:49 As long as you know about that feature, highly advanced,
  • 03:52 not a lot of people know about it, but now you do.
  • 03:54 So get creative with your shapes and your text.
  • 03:57 Thank you.

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