Question: How can I get pictures in my paper side by side



Question: How can I get graphics in my paper to appear side by side?

Answer: Here are two graphics that I inserted "in line." Since together they are wider than a line, they automatically stacked. [pic]

I separated them by adding this paragraph. It could have been a blank paragraph, that is, one with no text.

[pic] As you can see, this graphic is really "in line" with the text because I didn't end the paragraph after the graphic and before resuming typing.

To get the graphics side-by-side, they must be small enough to fit side-by-side. One can change the size of graphics with precision in Photoshop (and also thereby reduce the file size) or one can do it in a rough and ready way by clicking once on the graphic in Word and using Word's Format> Graphic command to resize or by dragging the one of the corner resize boxes (little squares) to make the graphic small enough. You can see the result of that below:

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If you turn on invisible marks by clicking on the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar, you'll see that I started a new paragraph before I inserted the graphics that are immediately above this paragraph. Then, after I'd resized them appropriately, I put some spaces between them and then centered the paragraph they were in. Then I started another paragraph, which I left blank, and then the paragraph you're reading now. You can center a paragraph by using Format > Paragraph…> General – Alignment > Center or by clicking on the icon of a centered paragraph in the Formatting toolbar.

Another way to get graphics side-by-side is to use Insert > Break to make two continuous section breaks. In the second, you continue your text. In the first, you click Format > Columns (or click the Columns icon) to make that section of your document two-columns. Then insert the first graphic in the left column.

[pic]Now even though I have writing here, I'll insert the second graphic by using the

[pic] Insert > Column Break command and then pasting in the graphic and continuing to type.

Once I'm done typing under each of the graphics, I click down to the second section, which is still formatted for single columns like the section two above this one, and then just resume typing, or, as here, insert a blank paragraph and then resume typing.

A third way to place graphics side-by-side is to use Photoshop to construct a single graphic composed of the two side-by-side and then insert that new graphic. This is preferable if you want to guarantee the physical relationship of the graphics no matter how you edit the Word document, but it is more time- and skill-consuming and in most instances unnecessary.

I hope this helps.

Eric

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