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“Pictures Are Worth A Thousand Words”. Great people have agreed to the fact that pictures speak a universal language. We all know that representing data in a pictorial manner makes it easy for the reader to get a grasp of it.

In Microsoft Word, we can insert a picture in our document in the following two manners:

1. From the Clip Art Gallery
2. From another file

Inserting pictures from the Clip Art Gallery

We can use the Clip Art Gallery to view a variety of pictures, photographs, sounds, and video clips. It is also possible for us to insert these objects in our document from the Clip Art Gallery. Microsoft Corporation provides Clip Art Gallery along with the Microsoft Office package of which MS-Word is a part.

In order to insert a picture from the Clip Art Gallery, we should follow the steps given below:

Position the cursor at the location where the picture from the Clip Art Gallery is to be inserted.

Thereafter, select Insert->Picture->Clip Art.

We can find that the various pictures have been grouped under certain broad topics. We can select any of the following topics and a screen will appear with multiple Clip Arts in that particular topic. Suppose if we have selected the topic Animals, the following screen will appear.

We can click on the any of the picture in the above figure that is considered appropriate

On doing so, a pictorial menu appears from where we can insert the picture on the document.

In order to insert the ClipArt we have to click on the Insert Clip option

Inserting picture from another file
Let us say, that we have drawn a picture using the Paint application provided by Windows. Now, we want to insert this picture in a Word document. However, in such a case, the Clip Art Gallery will be of not much help to us.

The steps that we are supposed to follow to insert a picture in these circumstances are enumerated below:

1. Place the cursor in the position where the picture is to be inserted

2. Then, select Insert->Picture->From File

3. Insert Picture dialogue box will be displayed

In the Look in box of the Insert Picture dialog window, specify the drive or the folder where the file containing the picture that is to be insert in the document is located.

On locating the required picture, either double-click on that file or click on the Insert button and the picture will be inserted in our document.