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When you add pictures to your Office documents you might need to crop them to remove unwanted areas, or isolate a specific part.
First insert your picture,
Click the Picture button on the Insert tab.
The Picture Tools format ribbon should now be active. If not, click on the image.
On the Format tab, click Crop.
Click and drag inward any of the four corners to crop from any one side. Notice you can still see the area to be cropped out is show in translucent grey.
Press and hold the CTRL key while you drag a corner cropping handle inward to crop equally on all our sides.
To crop equally on right and left or the top and bottom, press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the centre cropping handle on either side inward.
You can further adjust the cropping area by clicking and dragging the picture behind the cropping area.
To accept the current dimensions and crop the photo, press escape or click anywhere outside the cropping area.
You can manually crop the image to exact dimensions. This can be done by right clicking on the image and entering the dimensions in the Width and Height boxes, or in the Size group on the Format tab.
CROP TO A SHAPE
Select your photo and click Crop from the Size group on the Format tab. Select Crop to Shape and choose any of the available shapes.
You photo will be cropped into that shape.
If you wish to have the entire picture fit within a shape, choose Fit. The original picture aspect ratio will be maintained.
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