Image

Selecting Image from the Insert menu will bring up a large interface with a lot of different options. Entering all the information in that interface saves the user from typing it all out manually.

Starting top left corner of the window and working down. The whole left side of this window is for navigating and finding an image on the users computer.

Allows the user to go directly to their desktop

moved the user up one folder.

allows the user to navigate to a specific folder on their computer. The contents of the folder selected, are displayed in the area below. The image selected will be shown in the preview are in the top right part of the window. Below the preview area are the General and Thumbnail tabs.

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The General tab enables the user to fill and select information relating to the image and how it appears in the document.

Image - The file path to the image

Alt Text - This text will appear instead of the broken image icon if the image is not accessible.

Align - Positions the image to a certain side (left, right, top bottom, middle, absbottom, texttop)

Border - Enables the user to put a border around the image

Width - The size of the image left to right

Height - The size of the image top to bottom

Include Size - includes the width and height of an image in the image code

Create Image as Link - Enables the user to make the image clickable as a link.

The Thumbnail tab provides the option of inserting a thumbnail of the original image into the page instead of the original. The user can then link back to the original file.

Create and Insert Image as Thumbnail - this selection must be checked for the other options to be available.

Link to Original Image - Creates a link back to the original image

Thumbnail Filename Prefix - the prefix the program will add to the file name when the thumbnail is created.

Thumbnail Width - Left to right size of the thumbnail created

Thumbnail Height - Top to bottom size of the thumbnail created

Thumbnail Format - This section gives the user the option of choosing the image format and quality of the thumbnail

A user will encounter this window if inserting an image for the first time.

This can become the default choice for the user by selecting the 'Don't ask me this again.' And as is says this option can be re-enabled via the Preferences area under Tools. To read about relative and absolute links click here.

Choosing Yes will create a link that looks like this:

Choosing No will create a relative link to the image it will look similar to this:

NOTE: When the file is saved the links will change to this more familiar look.

If the user chose Yes:

If the user chose No: