Google Docs Tips and Tricks

Images and Drawings - Google Docs

Need to know how to add images or drawings to your Google Docs? Add files from your device, Google Drive or from the spider web, or even draw an image yourself.

In Google Docs y'all tin can insert images from your device, from Google Bulldoze, from the web, or yous can even draw and edit your own using Google Drawings.

  1. Use the Insert menu and select Image so cull from:

    • Upload - upload an image from your device);

    • Have a snapshot - have a picture with your webcam;

    • By URL - enter the web address of an image online;

    • Google Drive - select an image from your Google Drive.

    • Search - search Google Images, the LIFE images shop, or Google'south Stock images collection.

    • Please note the unlike permissions associated with these searches - The images found in the Google search and the LIFE images search can exist used outside of Google Docs, but the Stock images are immune merely within Docs.

Insert an Image in a Cartoon

  1. Use the Insert and then Drawing

  2. In the embedded version of Google Drawings use the Paradigm button

  3. Utilise the same options mentioned above to select your images, or you can draw objects, and arrange them how you want them to appear;

  4. Use the Salve & Shut button to close Google Drawings and return to your certificate;

  5. If you lot need to edit the drawing selecting the drawing and use the Edit option that appears.

  1. Once you lot have an image in your certificate yous can change its size , wrapping , and margins .

  2. To alter its size, select the image and use the corners to resize the epitome to scale , or employ the sides to stretch the image out of its original proportions .

  3. To change the wrapping, select the image and cull either in-line , wrap text , or break text . In-line ways that the motion picture acts like a slice of text so cannot be freely placed on the page. Wrap text ways that the image is complimentary and can be placed anywhere on the page, and that text volition wrap around it. Suspension text is the same as wrap text except that in that location will be no text to the correct or left, only in a higher place and below.

  4. The margin option is to the right of the wrapping option. Cull the margin yous prefer from the card.

  1. You can too crop images in Google Docs. Select an epitome and use the crop push button to access the cropping tool.

  1. You can replace an image yous've already inserted with another. To practise this, right-click on the paradigm and choose Replace Paradigm...

  2. Y'all can upload your own prototype or search for a new ane

  1. If you are unhappy with how an image has inverse, right-click and choose Reset Epitome to revert it to how information technology originally appeared in the document

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