

Office 2016 for Mac better resembles the Windows version, which will likely please switchers.

Now, select the tab depending upon the shape fill type you have used, since our shape had a gradient fill, we have selected the Gradient tab as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 3. The new version of Office by contrast is clean and much more Office-looking. Adjust it to just larger than the image that you want in your document and then click inside the. To do this, I’d suggest you start with a new drawing canvas which is Insert > Shapes > New Drawing Canvas to draw a canvas on the screen. Word 2007, however, deprecated this format in favor of Office Open XML, which was later standardized by Ecma International as an open format. Initially, it implemented the proprietary. This brings up the Format Shape dialog box, make sure that the Fill option is selected within the sidebar. In Office 2011 for Mac, Excel’s simple Paste option handles most of your ordinary pasting requirements, but it’s a one-shot deal you can choose only a single option. While Word 2010 has no tool for straightening an image, you can create the same effect. Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word.Right-click (or Command+click) the shape to bring up the contextual menu that you can see in Figure 2. Select the shape that has a solid color, gradient, pictures or texture fill.To set a transparency value for your shape, follow these steps: Look at Figure 1 below, and you will see the original shapes on the left with their semi-transparent counterparts on the right, we purposely placed all these shapes on a patterned background so that you can see the pattern due to the transparent nature of the shapes towards the right.įigure 1: Original shapes and their semi-transparent counterparts, from top to bottom: solid color, picture, texture, and gradient Some fill options, such as pattern and slide background have no transparency options. Select the Format Picture tab it’s the one on the far right. A panel will open on the side with several tabs. Next, right-click the image and select ‘Format picture’ from the context menu. First, insert a picture via the Insert tab on the ribbon. Transparency is calculated in percentages and you can change its value all the way from 0 to 100%. This post details how you can sharpen an image in MS Word in Office 2016. To delete multiple pictures, press and hold CTRL while you click the pictures that you want to delete, and then press DELETE. Click the picture you want to delete, and then press DELETE. Locate a new picture, and then double-click it. Shape fills such as solid color, gradients, pictures, and textures can have a transparency attribute that lets you reduce the opacity of a fill so that the slide object or background behind shows through. Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Change Picture.
