You’ve probably seen Word documents that have photos cropped into a rectangle with rounded corners or a circle shape? You don’t have to do this with some image editing program. Microsoft Word has a very simple tool for that: Crop to Shape.
Step 1: Easy cutting
There are several ways to crop images (also called cropping in English). After pasting or importing the image, click on the image to select it. This will bring up an extra tab in the Ribbon: Image format. On the right side of this tab you will find the button crop. This feature makes marks appear around the image you drag to indicate where exactly you want to cut. When those handles are in view, you can also grab the image to drag the image within the cropping frame. That’s an interesting way to change the composition. Press Enter to apply the crop, or choose under the button crop on the assignment crop.
Step 2: Crop to Shape
Do you want to crop the image into a circle, a rectangle with rounded corners, into a heart, star or other shape? For this you use in Become the assignment Crop to shape. That assignment is also in the tab Image format. So first select the image and then choose in this tab via the button crop the assignment Crop to shape. A selection box appears with a library of shapes: basic shapes, arrows, stars, banners, and more. In this example, we want to crop the image into a circle. That is the first shape in the group of basic shapes. Do not press Enter yet to confirm the crop.
Step 3: Aspect Ratio
The selection will usually not appear as a circle but as an oval. That’s because the image isn’t as wide as it is high. Under the menu item Crop to shape use you the assignment Aspect ratio. To make a perfect circle, strangely enough, select the option here Square. This option simply means a 1:1ratio between height and width. But you can also choose other ratios here, including 2:3, 3:4 and 16:9. In this way you crop the image according to all common formats.
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