Microsoft Office – How to Modify ‘Picture Styles’ Shortcut Gallery

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The Microsoft Office Ribbon has a convenient gallery of styles to apply to pictures, shown here:

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It functions much like the Quick Styles gallery in Word for quickly applying formatting to text. But whereas one can create a new text style and add it to the Quick Styles gallery, I haven't been able to find a way to do the same with the Picture Styles gallery. The default styles aren't what I need, and the styles I do need involve changing multiple settings, so a shortcut would be nice. Am I stuck just using the copy-paste format options?

Best Answer

It looks like the short answer is no, Microsoft Word doesn't allow you to create or edit picture styles.

However I did find a very nice work around here, here's a formatted version of what it says:

Microsoft Word 2010 provides no means of creating a style for a picture that you can use to quickly format all of your images in the future. However, you have a workaround involving Quick Parts:

Format an Image

  1. Add an image to your document by clicking Insert -> Picture
  2. Choose a picture in the dialog box.
  3. Click the picture, select the Picture Tools tab, and choose Format.

At this point you can adjust how the text should wrap around the picture, indicate whether the text appears on top of the picture, customize a border for the picture, or what have you.

Once you've applied formatting to your satisfaction:

Create a Quick Part

  1. click the image to select it
  2. Choose Insert -> Quick Parts -> Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery.
  3. Type a name for the image, and choose to save it to the Quick Parts Gallery.
  4. Save it in your Building Blocks.dotx file.
  5. click OK.

In the future, you can add this formatted image to a file like this:

Apply Quick Part to a new Image

  1. Insert -> Quick Parts and click the image.
  2. Right-click the image.
  3. Choose Change Picture and select the new image.

The new image will appear in the existing border, thus saving you from having to reproduce the border (and other formatting) each and every time you add a picture to your document.

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