Mar 23, 2019

How do I put text next to an image in a document?

I want to type text next to an image in a document.

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Jo S.

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Mar 23, 2019

Hi, Liz,

Thanks for trying to help out, Adam.

Liz, to have text and an image together, you need to click on the image and in the menu that will appear below it, select Wrap text.

If you want to have the image on one side of the page and text on another, but have them side by side, there currently isn't a straightforward way to do that. However, you can accomplish this by following these steps:

1. Create a new table with two columns.
2. Insert your text in one of the columns.

3. Insert your image in the other column
4. Finally, to hide the table borders, right-click in the table and select Table properties from the menu that appears. Go to Table borders and change the border color to white and/or the width to zero.

Does that resolve it for you?

~Jo

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Adam D. PE

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Mar 23, 2019

Hi Liz,

Can you give us more details of what you are trying to achieve? This is just a guess without more information but you can probably accomplish your goal in Google Drawing. You would then place the drawing in the document.

Adam

Jo S.

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Mar 23, 2019

Cool! That's awesome, Liz. You're going to be a pro at this soon! :)

I'm glad it's resolved for you now. Please let me know if we can help with anything else. Have a great weekend!

~Jo

Emmett Shaddock

May 14, 2019

thanks but I cant seem to make the column smaller. I'm trying to get the picture right next to the text.

Jo S.

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May 14, 2019

Emmett, try changing the padding of the row/column to zero. To do that, right-click in the row/cell/column and go to Table properties > Cell padding.

~Jo

Emmett Shaddock

May 14, 2019

thanks! that worked

Jo S.

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May 15, 2019

My pleasure, Emmett. I'm glad that did the trick.

Best,

Russell Bernstein

Jul 25, 2019

I think a better solution is to insert a drawing and put the picture and text within the drawing

Kathryn Ann Dougery

Dec 11, 2019

when I right-click on the image, I have no menu item for wrap text!

Jo S.

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Dec 11, 2019

Kathryn, don't right-click on the image -- simply click on it one time (a regular click, not a right-click).

~Jo

Deborah Siler

Jan 9, 2020

Thank you Jo S. Right click does not reveal the wrap text option but one click does reveal it right below the picture

Jo S.

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Jan 9, 2020

You're very welcome, Deborah.

~Jo

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AbdulJabbar S.

Feb 20, 2020

go to the top where the menu is and press t in a box and press it then press where you want it to be 4 blue squares will come up move the blue squares where you want to and done.

Video of doing it below

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Last edited Feb 20, 2020

Jo S.

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Feb 20, 2020

Hi, Abdul-Jabbar Suleiman,

Thanks for jumping in and trying to help out. Your video is for Google Slides, and this thread is regarding Google Docs, which has different features from Slides. Unfortunately, that solution won't work for Docs.

~Jo

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