OT: Microsoft Word - controlling space between photo and border around it (not between border and text that is wrapped)

I would be inclined to do it differently. Place a text box on the page where you want the photo, and set a border on the text box. Then place the photo within the text box, centering it vertically and horizontally, setting the size so that it leaves blank the size of borders you want.

Microsoft always think they know better than you what you will want, and there are usually work-rounds.

Jim

In Libre Office a right click on the image brings up a menu that includes 'format image' and in that sub menu are the 'wrap style and spacing' which sets border-to text behaviour, and a birder submenu that sets border style, color and position to image .

Insert Text Box Click inside the text box Insert Picture Rt click on a corner on the text box Fron the dropdown select 'Format textbox' From the diologue box select Text box Select Internal Margin

Bill

If you only want to do this occasionally, you can achieve a border by using the crop tool, pulling the limits out rather than in.

This would be a pain if you needed to do it frequently.

Chris

I should add that if you want the final document to have reasonable file size, reduce the resolution of the picture before inserting. There's no point in having a picture with resolution that exceeds that of the final printer or screen. As a rough guide, if the picture is to occupy half the width of an A4 page the horizontal pixel count shouldn't exceed

Bill

Another thought. If you have a simple image processing program such as Photoshop Elements you can actually put a white border around the image using 'Canvas size'. The white area is as far as Word knows an integral part of the picture, so it will reproduce the picture complete with border. You could even colour it, just to jazz things up a bit!

Bill

You can set the width of the border under "Glow & Soft Edges" as Pt Size adjusting the transparency to 0% to get a hard frame.

I've never got round to figuring out text boxes as advised by other posters, but I often do image positioning by creating a suitable table, and then putting each image in a cell.

So, for example, if you wanted two pictures across a page width, then one, then another two make a table with three rows and two columns, and in the second row merge the two cells.

If you want captions for each image, it is worth having separate cells for them too.

You can make the borders invisible once you get the layout right. Don't forget to make "paragraph markers" visible otherwise it is easy to get confused as to why the layout goes wrong.

Table properties lets you do things like vertical positioning neatly.