This is an on-going tutorial on Clip Art in Microsoft Word. The first part of this tutorial is here: Part one of the clip art tutorial.

How Move Clip Art in Microsoft Word

The reason the image in the previous section won't move to the right is because of the way it is formatted. The wrapping style is set to "In line with text". What this means is that you can move your image up, and the text will shift to the top and bottom of the image. But it won't move to the right. It will be like this one below:

To move your image anywhere on the page, do the following:

This is not the tab strip we want, so click on the word "Layout". The Layout tab strip displays. It looks like the one below:

Make sure your settings are like the one in the image:

Wrapping style - Square
Horizontal alignment - Right.

Click on both of these with your left mouse button. When you're done, click the OK button.

You should now be able to move your image around the page, and put it anywhere you want. To do that:

The right side of the story is a bit messy, though. In the next part of the tutorial, we'll see how to straighten up the text.

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