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 web, or even depict an image yourself.

In Google Docs you tin can insert images from your device, from Google Drive, from the web, or you tin can even draw and edit your own using Google Drawings.

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

    • Upload - upload an image from your device);

    • Take a snapshot - take a picture with your webcam;

    • Past URL - enter the web accost of an image online;

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

    • Search - search Google Images, the LIFE images store, or Google's Stock images drove.

    • Please annotation the different permissions associated with these searches - The images found in the Google search and the LIFE images search tin exist used outside of Google Docs, only the Stock images are allowed only inside Docs.

Insert an Image in a Drawing

  1. Use the Insert and so Drawing

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

  3. Use the aforementioned options mentioned above to select your images, or yous can draw objects, and arrange them how you want them to announced;

  4. Utilise the Save & Close button to close Google Drawings and return to your document;

  5. If you demand to edit the drawing selecting the cartoon and use the Edit option that appears.

  1. Once you lot have an prototype in your document you can alter its size , wrapping , and margins .

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

  3. To change the wrapping, select the prototype and choose either in-line , wrap text , or break text . In-line means that the moving picture acts like a piece of text and so cannot exist freely placed on the folio. Wrap text ways that the image is free and can exist placed anywhere on the page, and that text will wrap around information technology. Pause text is the same equally wrap text except that at that place will exist no text to the right or left, simply above and below.

  4. The margin option is to the correct of the wrapping selection. Choose the margin y'all prefer from the menu.

  1. You lot can also crop images in Google Docs. Select an image and utilise the crop push to admission the cropping tool.

  1. Y'all can replace an image you've already inserted with some other. To do this, right-click on the epitome and cull Replace Image...

  2. You tin can upload your own image or search for a new ane

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

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