A Student asked: How to put details into the picture
I am working on the first part of WP3. I do not understand how to put the details into the picture. How do I put the diagonal lines into the picture and the brick pattern onto the connecting section of the picture.

The diagonal lines are a property of the rectangle. In other words first draw the rectangle
and second change the fill property to the pattern of your choice.

Here is a more detailed explanation:

1. First use the rectangle drawing tool to draw a rectangle
2. Select the rectangle. (Press and release the left mouse button while the cursor is over the
rectangle. You should see handles on the sides of the rectangle.)
3. While the cursor is over the rectangle, right mouse click. This will bring up a menu of
actions that can be applied to the rectangle. (Tip! If ever in doubt about how to specify an
action that is to be performed on some object, right mouse click over the object. Chances
are the menu that pops up will contain a command that leads to the action you want to
perform.)
4. Select Format Autoshape from the menu that pops up
5. Select the tab: Colors and Lines
6. Select the pull down for fill color
7. Now select Fill Effects
8. Choose the pattern you want an then click OK/OK

Eddie

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A Student asked: ExpansionPlan - How do I get a text box without an outline?
Mr. Burris, I have a question, it concerns the WP3 assignment EXPANSIONPLAN. How do I get a text box object with no outline or border?

Once you have added a text box you can get rid of the outline or border by:

1. Select the text box
2. Select Format/Text box (you can also right click over the border and select Format Text
Box on the menu that pops up)
3. Under Line Color, select No Line

>Also are the text boxes to be
>used for the text "Old Building" and "New Building" or for the descriptions
>of the buildings (i.e., renovation, three new classrooms).

Good question. I would use text boxes for both. You can just type Old Building and New
Building as regular text, but by typing them as text boxes it makes it easier to work with the
whole image. For example, you can select all the drawing elements and move them to
another place in your document.

Eddie

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A Student asked: ExpansionPlan - How do I align the picture where I want it?

I am having trouble with my last Word Processing assignment. I can not get the picture to stay in the upper right hand corner on my EXPANSIONPLAN assignment. I can not Wrap the image so it will go to the corner. I can not drag the image as well. How can I move it?

Number one. Don't feel too frustrated. This business of inserting pictures and setting wraps is usually a pain and the results can seem downright inconsistent. Even if you've down it for years. Worse, each editing program, from word processors to WYSIWYG HTML editors and desktop publishers don't seem to totally agree on how to implement text wrapping. Nore are the dialog boxes very helpful in explaining what will happen because the results don't always (often don't) seem to look like the small icons which are supposed to illustrate their function.

However.

Try this with any document.
 

• Type is some line for the top line.
• give youself a space or two more
• Go to the Insert menu and pick Picture / Clip Art
• Pick any image and click okay
• At this point you probably have a large version of the clip-art picture. It is probably already selected (you can see this because it will have eight "handles" around it, one in the middle of each side and one at each corner).
• Move your mouse over one of the corners - hold down the left mouse button - "drag" the mouse inward so that you scale the picture to a smaller size.
• You may find that this totally messes up where on the page the now-scaled picture winds up.
• If so, move your mouse over the central area of the image. You should see the mouse change shape so that it looks like four pointers. This is the "move" cursor. If you hold down on the left mouse button and "drag" the picture you will be able to move it anywhere on the page.
• move the picture to the end of the line and let go.
• Now, your image should still be selected (check for the eight "handles"). You will also notice that a floating tool bar is visible (probably just above the image).
• Click on the text wrap tool and try them all. Probably the one labeled "None" is the one you want. This will, most likely center the image off the right side of the line.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
 

• Check both the image size and the width of the line it is on. You may need to reduce text size.
• Check for the line's alignment (left, center, right). This may effect whether the picture is able to find enough room on the line.
• Check for the line's indentation. It may be too large.

Points to note
 

• Wrapping the image will not determine whether it goes to the corner. Wrapping only affects how the image relates to the line or paragraph it is positioned next to. Therefore you need to position the image and then set text wrap.
• Dragging the image requires that you select it. Just move the mouse over and click.
• Check the object's (the clip art picture) properties. Right click the picture and select the "Format Object" item on the pop-up menu.
  • Click on the "Position" tab.
  • Check for one of several options in terms of how to position the picture. All the controls are relative to various items on the page, from the text to the page edges to the paragraph. You should experiment with these to determine how to set the position of the picture. In some cases you certainly want to keep the picture with the text if illustrates. In some cases you want to keep the picture with the page position regardless of the text it is near to.

 

Hope that helps,
Mike