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Negative crop to create space around pictures (Office)
August 12, 2004

Depending on the application in which you've inserted a picture, you might have several ways to add space around the image (such as paragraph spacing or table cells in Word). However, in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, one option is to add negative cropping values.

Do this in one of two ways. First:

1. Select the picture and then click the crop tool on the Picture toolbar.
2. When the crop marks appear on your picture, click on any crop mark and drag out from the image to add negative space around the picture.

Or, to add an equal amount of space on more than one side (or a precise amount of space on any side):

1. Select the picture and then go to the Picture tab of the Format Picture Dialog box (select Picture from the Format menu).
2. Enter the desired negative values to crop from Left, Right, Top, or Bottom, and then click OK.

Posted by Stephanie

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