You can actually insert videos, tables, images, graphs, and also a screenshot in any MS Word file. It is not one of the world’s most popular word processors for nothing. In case you’re willing to invest the time, you can use it to create dazzling documents. For anyone who is unfamiliar with professional document designing apps, MS Word is just perfect. The images that you insert in an MS Word document are actually added in a reduced quality. This is to keep the size of the file reasonable enough. A single image can add significantly to a document’s size. Suppose it were added to its original size, your document might turn out to be too large to be emailed. Obviously, the reduced quality does not always look great in which case, you ought to sharpen an image in MS Word to improve its look.
MS Word is not an image editing application by any means of the imagination. But It has a couple of tools with a limited option for editing an image. These also include crop tools, filters, shapes, borders, color image, and more. If an image you’ve added to your document looks off, you can sharpen it. There’s an inbuilt tool that allows you to do just that.
Sharpen An Image In MS Word
MS Word has a sharpen image feature way back in Office 2007. Maybe even older versions of the productivity suite have this feature as well. It is accessed the same way however the controls will be different based on which version of MS Office you’re using. This post explains how you can sharpen an image in MS Word in Office 2016.
First, insert a photo via the insert tab on the ribbon. Next, right-click the photo and select ‘Format picture’ from the context menu.
A panel will open by the side with several tabs. Select the Format Picture tab; it’s the one on the far right corner.
Expand the ‘Picture Corrections’ option. Here you will see a drop-down and a Sharpness slider. The dropdown has preset values for sharpness. They can sharpen or soften the photo. You can also choose to set a custom sharpness level by using the Sharpness slider tool.
Other Picture Corrections
The Picture Correction tab additionally allows you to change the brightness and contrast of a photo. Like with the Sharpness option, you can either increase or decrease the brightness and the contrast. There are presets that change the two elements in a picture at once. If you actually want to change one element but not the other, you should make use of the sliders instead of the preset drop-down. If anything turns out badly and your photo looks worse than it did before, just click on the “Reset” button to fix it.
You can also choose to edit an image in a proper picture editing app before you insert it to MS Word but it will be compressed once it is added. Your edits won’t look good as they did before the picture was inserted in MS Word. If you want to use a better quality picture but keep the file size little, you need to try inserting an image via an online source. The picture will be in better quality and you will be able to update it by changing the online file.
