Find image for word

Written by Jane Hames

How to find images that are free to use in Microsoft Word and Google Docs

When searching for an image to insert into a Microsoft Word or a Google Docs Document, do you check the copyright? Depending on the software you are using to create your document, and the search engine being used for the search, you will get different results and options to filter by license. My preference is to use images that I know are licensed for commercial use and modification. This is mainly because I am not an expert in copyright laws, so by filtering for images that are labelled for use commercially, and are allowed to be modified, I know that I am safe. However, filtering to this lowest level of licensing does produce far fewer image results, so if you need more options it would be worth having a look at stock images which you can pay to use.

Here is a basic run down on what happens when you do an image search online and within Microsoft Word and Google Docs.

Searching for images within Microsoft Word:

If you search using Word’s online images feature (which replaced Clip Art), you will be able to filter your search to display all image results or those with a creative commons license. The creative commons license does NOT necessarily mean that you have the right to use the image, but it does gives broad permission that you can use it within the limits of that license. This is confusing, and as a result, if I want to use the Bing image search, I do not do it within Word. Keep reading for some alternatives!

Searching for images with Bing in your browser:

To avoid the confusion of creative commons, if you search within your browser using bing images, you can choose an image without licensing constraints to insert into Word.

Searching for images within Google Docs:

If you choose to insert an image in Google Docs and then select the search option, the results should be labelled for commercial reuse with modification. Just double check the description below the search box as shown here:

Searching for images with Google Images in your browser:

When using Google Images, ensure you change the licensing filter, as shown here:

Here are some sites which will provide more information about licensing and copyright:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-gb/bing/dn261810.aspx

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/29508?hl=en

Here are some sites where you can pay for images:

http://www.shutterstock.com/

http://www.istockphoto.com/

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A picture is worth 1,000 words they say, but images have another use and they brighten up dull text documents. Insert photos in Word documents using the web app at OneDrive.com.

For many people only Microsoft Office installed on their computer will do, but for some people the free Word web app at onedrive.com is sufficient for their needs. If you have not tried it, you don’t know what you are missing. Word runs in a web browser at the site and it has all of the most common features of the desktop application.

You will be surprised at the range of features it has and while it cannot rival the desktop app, it has enough to create great looking Word documents. If your word processing needs are straightforward, free Word web app is fine.

In this article, let’s take a look at how to insert photos and other images into Word documents. A splash of colour can make a big difference to its looks and the impression it makes with people. To get started, go to the onedrive.com or office.com website and create a new Word document. You can do this on any computer with a web browser, Windows PC, Apple Mac or Linux.

To insert an image into a Word document, select the Insert tab and then click the down arrow below Picture. There are options to insert a picture from This Device (the computer), OneDrive, Stock Images or Bing Pictures. Select the source of the image.

Insert a picture from Stock Images

A window appears that enables you to search for free and paid stock images. Paid images have a diamond icon in the top left corner of the thumbnail image. Free images don’t. Right at the top, select Images, Cutout People or Stickers. Images are photos and illustrations, Cutout People are people with a transparent background. Stickers are cartoon-like characters and images.

Click a category button to browse the images or click in the search box and enter a keyword or two to find images. Click an image thumbnail to select it and then click the Insert button at the bottom, below the thumbnails.

Insert pictures from Bing

Select the Insert toolbar ribbon, click Picture and then Bing Pictures. Images are organized into categories and you can browse them by clicking a tile. There are too many images to browse though and it is best to enter a keyword or two into the search box at the top.

Not all photos on Bing can legally be used in your own documents because some are protected by copyright. After searching, tick the Creative Commons only box to show only images that can be used freely.

Mouse over an image thumbnail and click the three dots in the corner to see the image size, URL and title.

Click an image to select it and then click the Insert button in the bottom right corner of this window. It is added to the Word document at the current cursor position.

Insert pictures with an add-in

Microsoft Word can be extended with add-ins and this includes the Word web app at the OneDrive.com website. Add-ins can perform many functions and there are a some dedicated to making it easier to find and insert images into documents.

There are many stock photo libraries, but if you are looking for free stock photos then Pexels is a good one that is worth exploring. It contains thousands of great photos that can be used in your documents.

You could open a browser tab, go to the Pexels website, search for photos, select one and download it, switch to the Word web app tab, then upload it to your Word document using the Picture menu. However, there is a simpler way and all you need to do is add the Pexels add-in.

Select the Insert toolbar ribbon in Word web app and click the Add-ins button. In the window that appears, click the STORE link to see add-ins that can be installed into Word. Type ‘pexels’ into the search box and then click the Add button next to Pexels – Free Stock Photos.

On the Insert toolbar ribbon, click the new Open Pexels button at the tend and a panel appears on the right side of the Word document. Use the search box to find images and then click an image to insert it into the Word document at the cursor position.

Scroll through the images in the panel, perform more searches and find a great image to use in your document. Double click it to insert the image at the current cursor position.

Add image effects in Word web app

We have looked at the various ways you can easily add images to a Word document, but what can you do with it once it is on the page? There are plenty of options to add effects.

Use the Picture toolbar to apply special effects, wrap text, rotate and crop the image. Click and drag the handles, small circles at the corners and sides of the image to resize it. In the middle at the top is the rotate button. Click it and drag it to rotate the image. There is also a Rotate button with options to rotate 90 degrees and flip vertically or horizontally.

Right click an image for a menu. At the top is a toolbar with buttons for Styles, Grow, Shrink, Crop and comments. Further down the menu is a Wrap Text sub-menu. This is useful for choosing how the image appears with text, whether it should sit apart from the text whether words should wrap around it.

There is a row of image icons. Click the down arrow at the right side and a collection of image styles is displayed. Click an icon to apply that style. There are many effects and you can add borders, shadows, make rectangular picture oval, tilt images and more. Click a few of the buttons and explore the effects.

There is no excuse for dull Word documents and images can be searched on Bing, Pexels, Stock Images or OneDrive from within the Word document and inserted with a click of the mouse. It could not be easier, so brighten up your Word documents with a splash of color.

Microsoft Word во многом помогает нам во время документации или отправки тезисов для вашего проекта. Это также позволяет нам найти текст обычным способом или с помощью регулярного выражения, что позволяет легко найти и заменить любой текст. Но что, если у вас есть несколько изображений в документе Word и вы хотите заменить их на другое изображение? Предположим, например, что вы использовали изображение в качестве разделителя для глав, в которых вы использовали логотип своей компании в документе Word в разных местах и ​​хотите заменить их все сразу другим изображением. Поиск и замена каждого изображения по отдельности может быть утомительной задачей. В этой статье я расскажу вам, как найти и заменить все изображения сразу в Word.

Найти и заменить все изображения в Word

Просто помните, что использование этого метода заменит все изображения в Word новым изображением, и это нельзя сделать для изображений выборочно. MS Word предоставляет нам возможность автоматически находить все изображения. Давайте прыгнем в шаги, чтобы сделать это.

Откройте документ Word, который вы хотите заменить. Просто посмотрите на изображения, которые вы хотите заменить.

Затем вставьте новое изображение вверху документа, который вы используете для замены других изображений.

Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши на вновь вставленном изображении и выберите « Копировать ». Это скопирует изображение в буфер обмена. Новым вы можете удалить только что вставленное изображение, так как оно нам больше не нужно.

Теперь пришло время найти и заменить все изображения в вашем документе Word на новое.

Для этого нажмите CTRL + H , что позволит вам Найти и заменить в документе Word.

Введите ^ g в текстовом поле Найти что и введите ^ c в поле Заменить на . Теперь нажмите « Заменить все », чтобы заменить все изображения в MS Word новым скопированным изображением.

Это поднимет подсказку с указанием количества замен. Нажмите « ОК » и закройте диалоговое окно «Найти и заменить».

Теперь вы увидите, что все изображения были заменены на новые. Если вы не хотите заменять какие-либо изображения, вы можете внести изменения вручную.

Как это работает?

На самом деле мы использовали известный метод find and replace . Каждое изображение в документе Word рассматривается как графика, и мы находим его с помощью ^ g и заменяем его скопированным изображением с помощью ^ c.

Надеюсь, что этот трюк Word поможет вам выполнить вашу задачу легко.

Надоело использовать маркеры по умолчанию в MS Word? Затем посмотрите, как использовать картинки в качестве маркеров в Word.

Microsoft Word can do a lot more things for you than you can actually know! Most people use MS-Word for very basic things. But at times you may face situations where you feel that MS-Word will not be able to help you and you will have to do it all manually. For example, what if you need to find and replace all the images in a Word document? Do you think MS-Word can do this? Well, yes! A reader of TechWelkin sent me a query. She said that she is a writer and is working on a large manuscript in MS-Word. She used a tiny image as a separator for various chapters and sections in the document. Now she wants to replace that image with a new one. But there are hundreds of copies of the image. So, will she have to replace each image one by one? Let’s explore the answer!

How to Find and Replace Images in MS Word

MS-Word can help in the above given scenario. There is an automatic way to find all the images in a document and then replace them all with a new image. Please note that this method will find all the images and it will replace all of them with a new one. With this method, we can not be selective about images. Here are the steps:

1. Open the MS-Word document in which replacement is to be done.
2. Insert the new image at the top of the document.
3. Select the newly inserted image and press Ctrl + C to copy it.
4. Now delete the newly inserted image.
5. Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace box.
6. Put ^g in the Find what box and ^c in the Replace with box

Now press Replace All button to see the magic!

You will see that all the images in the document will be replaced with the new image. Of course, the replacement operation will also replace the images that you did not want to replace. In such a case you may need to re-insert the images that were not to be replaced. This method is useful in a scenario where:

1. the document contains only those images that are to be replaced
2. the document contains a large number of images that need to be replaced and a smaller number of images that should not be replaced

The first scenario is straightforward. In the second scenario, you’ll be doing much less manual work by re-inserting images that were replaced as a side-effect.

The method works by replacing all graphics (denoted by ^g) with the clipboard content (denoted by ^c). Therefore, essentially, you can replace all images with anything that you can copy to clipboard.

To keep your document’s pagination intact, you should use the same size new image.

I hope this MS-Word tip was useful for you. If you have any question on this topic, please feel free to ask me through comments. I will try to assist you. Thank you for using TechWelkin.

Мммм, у меня ваш код не делает ничегошеньки, ну ничего не выводиться в MsgBox ни в 2003, ни в 2007, ни в 2010 офисах.

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Ну, собственно, не удивительно

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Sub test123()
    MsgBox ActiveDocument.Shapes.Count 'выводит 0
End Sub

Может Вы чего-то перепутали?

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Вообще я не раз пытался выделить картинку и записать это на макрос, но хитрая вордовская автозапись не хочет обращаться к картинке в документе как к объекту какой-то коллекции.

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Хотел исхитриться и через автозапись посмотреть как обрабатывать картинки в excel но не тут то было, в макрос данные о операциях с картинками в excel вообще не пишутся …

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Вроде выгуглил что коллекция картинок называется InlineShapes, а не просто Shapes. Теперь надо научиться как-то копировать эту InlineShapes в pp да ещё и с параметрами отображения как в Word (ну чтобы картинка не была в pp за границами листа например) и теперь заодно понятно к чему это было сообщение последнее от Sasha_Smirnov

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Вот я могу проходиться по всех картинках в текущем документе и при этом создавать нужное колличество листов в новом документе pp, как мне только копировать в pp эти объекты-картинки?

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Sub test1234()
 
    Dim PPAppl As Object
    Dim m As Variant
    
    'создать новый объект
    Set PPAppl = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
    
    'выбрать тип новых создаваемых листов в PowerPoint
    Dim Layout As Integer
    Layout = 2
    
    
    With PPAppl
        .Visible = True 'показать PowerPoint
        .Presentations.Add 'создать в PowerPoint презентацию
        
    'пройтись по всех картинках
    For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.InlineShapes.Count
        .ActivePresentation.Slides.Add i, Layout 'добавить новый лист
        ActiveDocument.InlineShapes(i).Select 'выбрать i-ую картинку
    Next i
    End With
End Sub

Microsoft is sending its Office clip art to the digital beyond, where it shall rest in glory with Clippy, Zune, and the rest of the Redmond saints.

In other words, those wonky, yet charming images that graced countless PowerPoint presentations are in their last days. Microsoft already nixed the website where you could download Clip Art, so it may not be long before it disappears from Office entirely. 

So it’s time for a different plan. The good news is that Office already has better options for spicing up your files than relying on the dated and questionable-looking Clip Art. For example, Office’s integrated Bing Images search is solid, parsing the web for copyright-free images that you can use to bring some life to the staid world of business presentations.

That’s not the only available solution, however. Here’s a rundown of your best options for grabbing the clip art that’s still there—and learning some new strategies for better images.

Clip art search is still inside Office – for now 

When you want to add an image to your file, head to the ribbon and click Insert, then Online Pictures. You’ll currently see three choices: Office.com Clip Art, Bing Images, and OneDrive.

Office.com clip art still works for now, so charge ahead if that’s what you want to use. Type in your search term and then select your favorite zany image. It’ll appear directly in the file, allowing you to re-size and move it anywhere you wish.

Microsoft did not indicate when it would exactly be eliminating Office Clip Art, so it could hang around for some time—though it didn’t exactly sound like that in Microsoft’s memo. Plus, if we’re being honest, Clip Art fell out of fashion at least a decade ago. Embrace the future! Keep reading to learn about more modern alternatives. Your audience will appreciate it.

Find copyright-free images through the built-in Bing search

Bing’s Image search is your best option for finding and inserting images inside of an Office file. Sure, Bing may not be your search engine of choice but it’s actually rather good, especially at finding photos and other types of art to use.

After you type in a search term (unfortunately there isn’t an auto-suggest) and pressing Enter you’ll notice a message about copyright files. 

By default, Bing presents images that are licensed through Creative Commons, meaning their owner allows anyone to use, publish, or redistribute them without a copyright claim. This may sound like legalese nonsense at first, but it’s actually pretty important, especially if you’re presenting your images or publishing a Word document as a flyer or other kind of print version.

If you use copyrighted images, you’re setting yourself up to get a nasty letter from the company or whomever holds the copyright to the images. If it’s possible that your work may see public eyes in any form, make sure you’re in the clear by sticking with licensed work.

There’s always OneDrive for your own files

If you’re all-in with Microsoft then there’s a chance you’re using OneDrive as your cloud backup service. If so, then importing your own images into Office is way easier than digging through the Windows file menu.

Unfortunately there’s no search option after selecting OneDrive as your file source—you just need to work your way through the scroll of images or folders that you have saved in your cloud storage. 

Once you’ve found the image you want you want, click on it and select Insert for it to appear in your Office document. 

Use Google search instead

There’s a reason Google still has the bulk of search market share; it’s usually better than the competition at finding exactly what you’re looking for. Such is the case with finding images. You can always just fire up your browser of choice and head to Google’s image search.

There are a couple of additional tools to help you sniff out proper images to use. After conducting a search, you’ll see different sub categories with previews of other image groups. You can check any of those and see if something tickles your fancy.

Yet again you have the ability to make sure you’re not violating copyright law by restricting the search to free-to-use images. Click Search Tools and Usage Rights. There are five different types of options that vary by how you intend to use the image. Select the one appropriate for your particular case. “Labeled for reuse” means you can use it for business or commercial works, or anything else you have in mind. “Noncommercial reuse” means you can’t use the image in a work that will be sold or shown to the public in a way that will make you money.

Once you see an image you want, right-click and save it to your computer. You now have an image ready to import.

Go back into your Office project and select Pictures from the Insert tab and it will fire up the Explorer menu. Just find what you downloaded and insert it into your file.

Once you’ve used Bing, OneDrive, or Google search to find pictures you’ll forget all about those zany Clip Art images. Well, some of them are hard to forget—but at least you won’t be caught using them again.

How to Find Clip Art in Word

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