Inserting Pictures and Clip Art

Quick reference

• 00:05 A fun feature they've added to Word 2019, is on the insert ribbon icons.
• 00:09 When I click the icons, you're going to see this come up and
• 00:11 you might wonder why in the world would I ever use these.
• 00:15 Well, most of us, or many of us, have smartphones and we use emojis.
• 00:19 Well, this is basically the same thing.
• 00:21 We can add these to our file.
• 00:23 We can color them, we can resize them.
• 00:26 The beauty is is they are vector graphics.
• 00:28 So they hold their shape.
• 00:30 They don't get fuzzy as they get bigger, they're kinda nice.
• 00:33 Let me show you an example why would use one.
• 00:35 I'm going to put my phone number and my email on a letter.
• 00:38 So I wanna represent my phone number with a telephone.
• 00:41 So I'll click on that, hit Insert, and there it goes.
• 00:44 And it's right beside my phone number, but I can shrink that down.
• 00:46 And then notice, I get a Graphics tools up here, with Format.
• 00:51 So now I can change my color of the phone to a blue, that's fine.
• 00:56 And now my email, I'd like that represented by a little letter.
• 00:59 So I'm gonna go back to my Insert, go to my Icons, and
• 01:02 I believe that is under the Communications.
• 01:05 And right over here, I can choose either one of these, this letter or this letter.
• 01:09 I'll go ahead and choose this one and hit Insert.
• 01:12 And I have a little email, and I'm gonna size that down.
• 01:15 I can make it real small, and notice I do have up here on the toolbar
• 01:20 I can make this a size 0.25 and make these real small.
• 01:24 And I do want to color that the same as the other one, there we go.
• 01:28 They're gonna both be blue and I'm gonna make that a 0.25 as well.
• 01:32 Sometimes it's easier to get up there and
• 01:33 type the size than to try to size them down.
• 01:36 So here we go, I just put two little icons right beside my phone number and my email.
• 01:41 So technically I can get rid of the words, okay.
• 01:44 And I'll just leave it at that.
• 01:46 All right, so that is why we would use icons.
• 01:49 To just to jazz up a file, or a document,
• 01:52 make it a little more interesting with some graphics.
• 01:56 All right, Clip Art.
• 01:56 Now Clip Art used to be really old school on Microsoft Word.
• 01:59 And you'll dig around looking for it and
• 02:01 you'll never find it because they've advanced it a lot.
• 02:04 On the Insert, Online Pictures.
• 02:06 Now, we already did a video with Online Pictures, but check this out.
• 02:09 Let me go right back here to Online Pictures, and I'm gonna type the word dog.
• 02:13 I wanna find a dog.
• 02:15 And these are a variety of some graphics.
• 02:19 But I want to find Clip Art.
• 02:20 I just want to find drawings of dogs, not actual photos.
• 02:24 So right here, we have this cute little Filter button.
• 02:26 When I click the Filter button, notice All Sizes, Small, Medium, Large,
• 02:31 Photograph, Clipart right there.
• 02:33 Line drawings, Animated Gifs, Transparent.
• 02:35 You get all of these, Colors, Layouts, you can choose them all.
• 02:39 But Clipart, see, we used to have a Clipart library in Microsoft Word and
• 02:43 they've taken that away, because they've placed it all online now.
• 02:47 I like it, and I choose this fun one right here and hit Insert.
• 02:50 And this thing is gonna come in huge, it's a huge file.
• 02:53 So I can either click and drag it down or I can resize it up here.
• 02:58 Now when I resize it on the picture tools on the formatting ribbon,
• 03:01 this brand new ribbon, maybe I just want that to be four inches wide.
• 03:06 And when I hit tab the whole thing vanished because it shrunk.
• 03:09 Actually, I guess I made it four inches tall, but look what happened.
• 03:12 It also flattened, it didn't keep it's width very well.
• 03:15 So I'm going to Ctrl+Z, and I'm gonna reset that, and
• 03:18 see if it'll let me Ctrl+Z.
• 03:19 What I'm gonna do instead is I'm gonna click and
• 03:21 drag while I hold my Shift key down.
• 03:23 Now, my Shift key will keep it in its parameters, and
• 03:27 it won't distort the drawing at all.
• 03:29 Now notice I'm at 6.45, but this time the width changed along with it.
• 03:34 So you can't see me holding down my Shift key, but
• 03:36 that's exactly what I'm doing, all right?
• 03:38 So I'm holding Shift and I'm using that resize, there we go.
• 03:43 All right, so
• 03:43 that's the lesson about your clip art, it's no longer a library inside Word.
• 03:48 You have to go Insert > Online Pics and then Filter to the Clipart.
• 03:53 And the icons, just kinda fun, you can put emojis in your documents and your emails.

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