How to Position Images in a Word

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by Rebecca Johnson
Updated November 11, 2019

After you insert an image in Microsoft Word, you can reposition it in your
document. You may want to overlap photos or set a specific text-wrapping pattern.
An imported image in Word is assigned square text-wrapping by default, but there
are other options you can use to get things looking just the way you want. We'll
show you how to do it.

This guide applies to Word for Office 365, Word for the web, Word 2019, Word 2016,
and Word 2013.

Using Layout Options in Word to Position Images

Positioning an image in W