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WORD 2013 crop picture

I am trying to dynamically crop a picture by pasting it inside of an object. Once pasted inside the object shape I want to be able to easily reposition and change the crop by scaling the photo.

 

I have seen this done on a stock template in the Microsoft library. Search under news letter and select the one pictured here. Click on the violin photo and scale it at will. You will notice that it crops dynamically via the shape and I cant figure out how they did this.

 

 

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The picture is not "cropped dynamically" -- in fact, it isn't cropped at all (by Microsoft's definition of "cropped"). The entire picture is still present after you drag it to a larger size, as you can see by the dotted outline.



However, the picture is contained inside a cell of a table that is set to an exact row height (2.3") and fixed column width (2.44"). That's the only part of the picture that will be visible, no matter how much larger you make it. The row height is set on the Row tab of the Table Properties dialog (change "At Least" to "Exactly"), and the fixed column width is set by clicking AutoFit on the Table Tools | Layout tab and choosing that option.

If you really want to crop the picture, as in discarding the parts that aren't visible, you must use the Crop tool on the Drawing Tools tab (which is available when the picture is selected).
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