Specific questions call for specific answers and knowing how to insert a pdf picture into word is sometimes a seriously annoying issue that you may face. Please bear in mind that in general, images should be in the jpeg or png format. Sometimes however, you may have to deal with images that are in a pdf format.
When Do You Need to Insert a PDF into Word?
Fortunately and unfortunately, having things is pdf is important. If you have to send a report and you want to ensure that the styling that you have created stays there, it’s important to save the document as a pdf and then send that. Things can always go wrong when someone have the ability to change and edit the document.
The downside of doing this is that unless you have a license to be able to edit a pdf you won’t be able to grab the text properly. And licenses for Adobe products are not cheap. Therefore it’s often easier to just have the text in the pdf and then you display it as an image in your document. This is especially true if you want to take an image from a report in a pdf. Sometimes it’s worth making a screen grab but other times you may lose the quality and want to crop the image from the pdf.
Either way, let’s show you how to go about editing and inserting a pdf picture into Word.
How to Insert Your PDF Picture
It’s important to note the your pdf picture is not going to show up as an image. Rather, you need to insert it via the Object button, thus we need to do the following:
Navigate to the Object button on the Insert tab.
If you don’t see it straight away, as your screen is small, click on the following button which is just a shortened form. (it’s in the same place)
The following screen appears
Select Adobe Acrobat Document (which is actually a pdf document) and click OK
The open file dialog box appears and you need to select the pdf that you want to open. Click OK
The file will open in BOTH acrobat (or similar) and your document. Close the file in the acrobat reader and you will see that the image has now appeared in your document.
In my case, I need to crop the empty white space around it. In order to do so, simply right click and you will see the following:
Select the crop and get cropping!
However, the problem with this method is that you are adding an object to your document, it is like a piece of text and can’t really be moved around properly and easily. In order to circumvent this, the best and easiest thing to do is to put the pdf picture into a text box. This allows you to move the image around in the easiest way.
Inserting a PDF Image into a Text Box
There are two ways to do this but the way I suggest is to first bring the image in and then put it in the text box. The reason why I feel that this is the best method is because it’s easier to crop the image before putting it in a box than after.
Create a Text Box by selecting the button on the insert tab of the ribbon. Select the simple text box option.
Remove the basic text that is included in the box.
Click on the image and then, whilst, holding the mouse button down, move the image into the text box. Since my text box is much smaller than the image, I get the following:
The box has grown a bit but the image has shrunken and moved into it.
Remove the Text box outline by using the Shape Format tab that has appeared in the ribbon:
In order to move the picture right click on the image and you will see the following button on the top right of it:
Select the option that suits you best. I suggest the Tight option:
Now you can move the picture around the page however you want!
In Summary
Being able to bring images, pictures, and text from pdf’s into Word is sometimes a really important thing to know how to do. I hope I have helped you out and you have managed to get your images into Word. If you have any questions, comments, or anything else, please let me know in the comments section below. Good luck!
