So one of the things you can do when you put a photo into Word is you can crop it
you don't need to do it before you actually put it into word so let's just
put a picture in here this is going to Insert tab and choose pictures and let's
just find something here and let's go for this one and insert that. So here's
my picture I want to crop it down now I can do this a couple ways one you can
see that when I've clicked on the picture this toolbar comes up here this
tipped and you can see it's got crop over here you can also right-click and
you'll see it says crop now when you do this on a Mac the crop is actually part
of the menu here so just click on crop and you'll see if I scroll up you get
these handles these little bars here so you got an angle one there a line one
here and one here too and you'll see them on each of the corners and the
sides so I can just click and drag that so you still see the original picture as
you do that so let's bring that down to here and when you're done you just
simply press ENTER and then you've got it you've got your crops picture so if I
click on it and click on right click and choose crop again you'll see the
original picture is still here so if I change my mind I can actually go back up
so no point do you actually lose the picture there
so there you are that's just very simply how you can crop but let me just click
on the picture and when you do this whether you're on a PC or a Mac it goes
into this picture tools format tab here so I'm just going to click on formats
and you've got crop here so one of the things you can do is if I click on this
drop down here you'll see it says crop to shape so you can do you could do
silly things like uh me like to spot maybe not as silly but there's my
isosceles triangle as a choice and if I choose that crop to shape again maybe I
can choose a shape like this it's all whatever you fancy but there are some
things that actually I think are very popular
such as at the top e you can have rounded corners and that can look quite
nice you could also have maybe just like that way you've just got on opposite
corners you've got the rounded corners but not on the other opposite corners
and if I want to I could just get rid of it just by going back to rectangle here
but you can see there are all sorts of shapes here including this smiley face
let's just undo controls it on a PC new command z on a Mac so that's one of
the things that you could do so I'm just going to go back and choose the rounded
corners because I quite like those so the other thing is is you could choose
what aspect ratio you want as well and if you go down here you'll see it says
aspect ratio and you can have it say one to one in which case it would make it
square like that and then you could still adjust the crop which gets rid of
the one to one aspect ratio you could also go here and choose maybe two by
three or you could choose something else such as landscape 3 by 2 this is doing
it the other way around but you can then change the size of it and maybe make
this shape that you want when you're done you just press Enter and there you
go so there are just two other options here one of them is the fill now what
that's going to do is it's actually going to get rid of the crop as I've
kind of got it and make as much of the picture fill in that area and you'll see
it if I just click on fill it's done that so it's managed to kind of take it
and put it into there let's just undo that and the other option is fit so this
will if I click on that it basically does something similar it makes the
whole picture fit in that frame so you've got fill
and you've also got fits so those are two other options that you can use and
again once you're done you just press Enter
so those here you can crop your pictures using words only the Windows PC or a Mac