How to Crop a Picture in Word
Use standard cutting tools
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Open the Microsoft Word document. Double-click the document that contains the picture you want to crop. The picture opens in a Microsoft Word document.
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Select photo. Scroll through the document until you find the picture you want to crop, then click to select it.
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Click Crop . This option is in the "Size" section, to the right of the Format toolbar . A menu will drop down.
On Mac, this option is in the toolbar at the top of the "Picture Format" tab.
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Click Crop in the drop-down menu. When you click it, a set of black bars will appear at the borders and corners of the selected image.
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Adjust to crop the photo. Click any black bar on the edge or corner and drag inward to adjust the crop.
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Click the "Crop" button. This option has a frame icon with a line through it above the Crop drop-down icon . All parts of the image outside the black bars will disappear.
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Save changes. Press Ctrl+ S(Windows) or ⌘ Command+ S(Mac) to save.
Use the cut to shape tool
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Open the Microsoft Word document. Double-click the document that contains the picture you want to crop. The picture opens in a Microsoft Word document.
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Select photo. Scroll through the document until you find the picture you want to crop, then click to select it.
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Click the drop-down arrow next to the "Crop" button. This option is in the "Size" section, to the right of the Format toolbar . A menu will drop down.
On Mac, this option is in the toolbar at the top of the "Picture Format" tab.
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Select Crop to Shape . This option is in the drop-down menu. Another menu will pop up with shapes.
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Choose shape. Click the shape you want to crop. Immediately, this shape will be applied to the photo.
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Adjust shape size. Click any dot on the image border and drag outward or inward to increase/decrease the image size.
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Save changes. Press Ctrl+ S(Windows) or ⌘ Command+ S(Mac) to save.
Use the aspect ratio crop tool
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Open the Microsoft Word document. Double-click the document that contains the picture you want to crop. The picture opens in a Microsoft Word document.
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Select photo. Scroll through the document until you find the picture you want to crop, then click to select it.
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Click the drop-down arrow next to the "Crop" button. This option is in the "Size" section, to the right of the Format toolbar . A menu will drop down.
On Mac, this option is in the toolbar at the top of the "Picture Format" tab.
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Select Aspect Ratio from the drop-down menu. Another menu will pop up.
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Choose ratio. In the pop-up menu, click one of the aspect ratios that you want to use to crop the photo.
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Adjust selection. Click and drag the photo around until you center the part you want to keep within the square/rectangle of the aspect ratio.
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Click the "Crop" button. This option has a frame icon with a line through it above the Crop drop-down icon . The photo will be cropped according to the aspect ratio you choose.
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Save changes. Press Ctrl+ S(Windows) or ⌘ Command+ S(Mac) to save.
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