Pictures in Word XP can also rotate freely

First right-click on the toolbar, then select Customize from the pop-up shortcut menu, open the Customize dialog box, and click the Commands tab (Figure 1). Select drawing in the Categories list, and then in the Commands list on the right, select explode picture. Use the mouse to drag the command to the appropriate place on the Drawing toolbar (by default, this command button is not on the Drawing toolbar).

Figure I

Now you can click on the [insert]→[picture]→[from file] menu command, select the picture you want to insert, and double-click to insert the picture into the current Word document, as before. When the inserted picture is selected, it has eight black filled rectangular control handles around it. However, you can only flip horizontally or vertically or rotate in units of 90°. It is impossible to rotate at any angle.

However, if we select the picture, click the [Explode Picture] command button, the control handle around the picture turns into a small, hollow circle, and at the top, there is a green circle control handle (the picture may run to the upper-left corner of the document). Move the mouse over and you can rotate the operation (Figure 2). At this point, if you double-click the picture, you can open the Format Picture dialog box, and in the Size tab, you can set the adjustment angle precisely (Figure 3).

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Figure Three

The above actions are passed in Word XP. If you are making a presentation, rotate the picture in Word XP and then clip it into PowerPoint (there is no exploded Picture command in PowerPoint).