Image Toolbar

Image toolbar

When you first insert an image or select one, clicking the Image icon opens the Image formatting options. Use the Image icons to define the placement of the graphic image.

Inserting an Image

Image icon

To insert a graphic image, select the Insert Image icon on the Image toolbar. Alternatively, you can select the Insert menu, then choose Image. You can also copy an image from one place in the document to another or from a Web site using the copy and paste keyboard commands.

When you copy and paste images using the keyboard commands, you can copy many images at a time and paste them all into the document. Buzzword gives you a progress report on how many images have been copied. If it cannot copy all the images, or there is a problem with one of the images in a sequence, Buzzword will let you know how many have successfully copied and how many in the sequence were not copied.

Note: Depending on the security settings at the Web site, you may be prevented from copying an image. You cannot copy an image from a desktop application, such as Microsoft Word or a PDF file, and paste it into a Buzzword document.

For details on copying and pasting an image from a Web site, see Cut / Copy / Paste.

Image Types

Buzzword imports GIF, PNG, and JPEG images.

Anchors

An anchor ties an image to its place in the text. In the image below, the image's anchor appears just to the right of the image, in front of the first word in the text, “While.”

Image Anchor

The anchor is normally invisible. It only appears when you have an image selected. Use the anchor to mark the position of your image within the text. Once an image is anchored to the text, Buzzword determines its placement as specified in Modifying Image Placement below.

Resizing an Image

To change the size of an image, first select the image by clicking on it. A small handle appears at each corner of the image. Click and hold the handle, and then drag the corner. When the image is the size you want, release the mouse button.

Note: Resizing an image may affect its position on the page. For the most predictable results, we recommend using the handle on the lower right corner of the image for resizing.

Image Resize

Modifying Image Placement

You can modify the placement of an image on the page by simply clicking on the image, then dragging and dropping it to a new location. Note that the position of the anchor determines the placement of the image.

Controls on the Image toolbar help you determine how the image is positioned within a paragraph.

To modify the placement of an image inside a paragraph, click on the image to select it. In the Image toolbar, choose one of the five options.

Image Inline Wrap In-line, wrap text The image is anchored at the insertion point, and text wraps around it. If you type characters anywhere in the document before the insertion point, the image moves the same way that text moves when you insert text in front of it. Text aligns with the top of the image and wraps below it.
Image Inline No Wrap In-line, no wrap The image acts as though it is a typed character. The line spacing adjusts to make room for the image above the line. The bottom of the image aligns with the bottom of the line of text. No text wraps around the image.
Image Float Left Floating, left aligned The image is at the left margin of the page and text runs around its right edge. To move the image away from the left margin, either drag it or specify an offset (see Offsetting an Image from the Margin).
Image Float Center Floating, centered The image is centered between the margins and text wraps on either side. To move the image left, either drag it or specify a negative offset. To move the image to the right, drag it or specify a positive offset.
Image Right Floating, right aligned The image is at the right margin of the page and text runs around its left edge. To move the image to the left, drag it or specify a negative offset.

Offsetting an Image from the Margin

Image Offset The offset adjusts the amount of space between the image and the left or right margin, or the center of the page, depending on which placement mode you choose. For example, if you choose Floating left but don’t want the image right next to the left margin, you can use an offset to move it away from the margin. Text wraps within the offset area. Use positive numbers for an offset toward the right, and negative numbers to offset toward the left.

If you specify an offset that is too large for the available space, Buzzword pushes the image as far as possible but does not push it off the page. For example, if the page has 6” available, but you specify 10”, Buzzword sets the image at 6” but remembers the 10” setting so that if you change paper size to 14”, the offset uses the entire 10” space.

Hint: Aligning Images

To align a number of images it may sometimes be easier to place them inside a table.