Shapes - Edit Wrap Points

Quick reference

• 00:04 All right, in this lesson we're going to place the picture of the flowers into
• 00:08 the center of the text on the screen.
• 00:10 And then we're going to wrap and edit our wrap points, so
• 00:13 that our text can get as close to the flowers and the buds as possible.
• 00:19 Now on the left hand side, I do have a text box with all the instructions, and
• 00:22 then a duplicate of that text inside the page so
• 00:25 that that text will wrap around on the picture.
• 00:27 But since we're doing a lot right now, I need as much screen room as possible.
• 00:30 So I'm going to collapse my ribbons up on top with just a double click on the Home
• 00:34 ribbon to collapse that.
• 00:35 That allows me to zoom in a little closer, so we can actually see what's happening,
• 00:39 and I'll move this over.
• 00:40 All right, let's go ahead and do this.
• 00:42 I'm going to click and drag this picture from the scratch area and
• 00:44 drop it right in the middle of the text.
• 00:47 When I do that, pictures will always pop out and
• 00:50 push the text around it as a default.
• 00:53 So I don't have to go in and tell a text send back, it already is in the back.
• 00:57 Now, If your text is over the top of the picture, you've got to click the edge of
• 01:00 it, and make sure to tell text box to go back, Send Backward, okay?
• 01:07 So that's done, but it's not exactly what I wanted.
• 01:10 I would actually like to have the text blend into some of the picture,
• 01:14 kind of wrap itself, just leave the flowers and the buds.
• 01:17 In order to that, I'm going to click on the picture itself,
• 01:21 that gives me my picture tools formatting toolbar, I have my Wrap Text button,
• 01:26 and read the entire list.
• 01:27 So I have None, Square, Tight.
• 01:29 This is one of the keys right here and it's in the instructions.
• 01:32 You've got to set the Wrap Text to be Tight, click all right.
• 01:36 Now you didn't see anything change but when we edit our Wrap Points,
• 01:40 that's when it matters.
• 01:41 I could have done that afterwards, it's okay, we did it now.
• 01:44 Now let's go ahead and hit the Edit Wrap Points, this is so cool, so
• 01:47 I'm going to click Edit Wrap Points, and
• 01:49 pay attention to the handles on the picture they are about to change.
• 01:52 Click, there we go.
• 01:54 We have new Wrap Points.
• 01:55 I'm going to zoom in just a little bit so you can actually see this better.
• 01:59 All right, notice what were little white circles are now little black squares.
• 02:03 Notice my mouse when I float it over the top it's an entirely new mouse symbol.
• 02:07 I'm going to click and drag and move this in.
• 02:10 Well, now I just slice through the edge of that flower petal.
• 02:13 Well, Ctrl+click, gives me a new wrap point and I can click and drag and
• 02:18 move that out.
• 02:19 So I'm going to grab this wrap point and I'm going to move it over here,
• 02:22 and I'm going to put a wrap point right here.
• 02:24 Ctrl+click gives me a new wrap point, move it out.
• 02:27 You see what's happening?
• 02:29 I have total control over how I wrap all the text around this flower, Ctrl+click.
• 02:35 You can even see the text in the background moving around,
• 02:37 it's kind of cool.
• 02:39 Well, even though you see the text moving around, if I send this flower behind that
• 02:43 text, the text is going to override the whole thing.
• 02:45 So one last step I'm going to do,
• 02:47 I would love to crop off the unused portions of that picture, but I can't.
• 02:52 Keep in mind we're just using Microsoft Publisher, this isn't a full-blown
• 02:55 Photoshop program, this is Microsoft Publisher, we'll take what we can get.
• 03:00 What I'm going to do is I'm going to make this picture semi transparent so
• 03:04 I can sort of read the text behind it.
• 03:06 So at this point I'm pretty much done with my wrap points.
• 03:10 So I'm going to click on the picture itself.
• 03:12 Let me click off of it, back onto the picture.
• 03:15 I'm going to right click on the picture, I'm going to come down to Format Picture.
• 03:19 And inside here, we have a transparency section.
• 03:22 And I could type 50% or I could just move my levers as close to 50% as possible,
• 03:26 and hit OK.
• 03:27 And there you go,
• 03:28 now I can see the text in the background wrapping into the actual picture.
• 03:33 So let's see, yeah, it turned white there for a second, and
• 03:37 usually that's just a screen refresh issue.
• 03:40 Now, if you don't like how it looks like, Begin by first dragging,
• 03:43 it doesn't seem quite right.
• 03:45 Well, let's move that a little bit, there we go, Begin by first dragging.
• 03:48 The words are still going to wrap the way they want to wrap.
• 03:51 There's only so much we can do here, but it's kind of a cool feature.
• 03:55 The final touch was turning in on that transparency.
• 03:57 Now, maybe that's not the effect you wanted at all, well hopefully,
• 04:01 it's pretty close.
• 04:02 It gives you a little bit of control over the wrapping.
• 04:05 I would practice with that and see what you can do, if it solves the issue you're
• 04:09 having in what you want to accomplish with your effects in your publication.

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