Getting Started with Word animation Tutorial 68: Rotate or flip a picture

For pictures in Word documents (or AutoShapes, WordArt, and so on), you can rotate them in the document's perspective, or you can flip them horizontally or vertically.

One, rotate the picture

1. Rotate 90° to the left or rotate 90° to the right

Select the picture, click the Draw button on the Drawing toolbar, and perform rotate or flip → rotate to the left or rotate 90° to the right. Or click the Rotate Left 90° button on the Picture toolbar.

Tip: If the Drawing toolbar does not appear in the window, you can perform the view → toolbars → drawing. By default, it will appear in the lower part of the window.

2. Free rotation

Select the picture, position the mouse pointer over the picture's green rotation control point, when the mouse pointer appears as a rotating arrow, press Zo or counterclockwise, there will be a dotted box indicating the new angle of the picture, the desired angle, and then release the left key to complete the rotation.

Tips:

1. While rotating, if you press SHIFT, CTRL, or Shift+ctrl, the rotation center of the picture and the angle of each rotation vary.

2. When the picture is inserted into the document, the default is inline, you can't rotate it directly, you can rotate the left or right 90°, and the 8 black handles around the picture change to white, and a green rotation handle appears. Of course, changing to other layouts can also make the rotation handles appear.

Second, flip the picture

Click the Draw button on the Drawing toolbar to perform rotate or flip → flip horizontal or flip vertically.

The animation of the specific operation process is as follows:

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