Saturday, 22 January 2022

Adding background pictures to word

 



Free Images : flower, purple, flowering plant, lavender, lilac, pink,  botany, spring, breckland thyme, buddleia, petal, wildflower, verbena  family, annual plant, loosestrife and pomegranate family, subshrub, macro  photography, violet family, perennial ...Adding a background to a page in word

1.    Add text to a new document.

2.    If you want random text,  try =rand() (enter) or =lorem()

3.    Enter everything and then use the spell checker to correct those words that the word thinks you were wrong....

4.    Add your background picture from the internet using insert picture.

5.    OR! Open chrome

6.    Select images from top right

7.    In search bar type in what you would like to see

8.    Look for tools under search bar

9.    Select creative commons

10.Look for size under search bar

11.Select large

12.Select your picture so that the preview appears

13.Right click and select copy picture from menu ( command click mac)

14.Go back to word

15.Paste in picture

16.Select picture tools from menu

17.Look for word wrap options and select in front of text

18.Resize your image using handles

19.Use recolor option from color options

20. Finally select behind text in word wrap menu.





Saturday, 31 July 2021

Last session before summer break

 Its a happy day for all of us today at Sedlescombe. The weather has confounded the weather people once more and it is a lovely day. Download the image below for our Pixlr session today.


As a reminder there will be no sessions during August 2021 enjoy the sunshine!

Tony






Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Mailmerge session resources

Hi All

Responding to Andrews request on Saturday, we ran through a demanding session using Word to complete a mail merge for making labels. As promised here is a step by step guide to doing it yourself. Any version of Word from 2010 will do for this exercise, except it must be the desktop version, and not the online version of Word that ships with Teams or Outlook.com. 

The walkthrough uses the mailing wizard, and takes you from writing a list of names, to printing the labels. There will be another session to follow this one with other ways that this can be achieved.

Here is the link to the resources - click to view