Clip Art, Graphics, and Drawings

To illustrate your points, browse the ready-to-use clip art that comes with Word, import graphics from other programs, or draw your own pictures.

Add clip art or another type of graphic   Click Picture (Insert menu), and then click Clip Art to add clip art, or click another command to add the picture you want.

Drawing button

Create your own drawings   Click the Drawing button, and then use the buttons on the Drawing toolbar.

For more information on all the things you can do with graphics, see Get Your Point Across with Graphics.

Use symbols for graphics   Click Symbol (Insert menu), double-click the symbol you want, and then give it a large font size. To create a “reverse” symbol, change the symbol’s text color to white and shade the paragraph with black or gray. To crop the shading around the symbol, adjust the indents. For more information on shading, see Lines, Boxes, and Shaded Backgrounds.