Photo Log in Microsoft Word 2010

This is driving me insane. Had two other coworkers try and fail. I'm trying to format some pictures in Word by making a photo log. What I'd like to do is have 6 pictures tiled per page, with set border that allow me to format inside the border (i.e. when I paste a picture, it stays inside that border instead of taking up half the page).

Anyone have any idea how to do this in 2010?

Good luck, I don't use Word a whole lot but I'll be surprised if you find a way to do that...does it have to be done in Word?

Try this: Set up a Table that has the desired layout. Click in each cell and Insert Picture. Insert the appropriate picture. If they are too large, right click and Format Picture. Under the Size tab, make sure Maintain Aspect Ratio is checked, then set the size percentage to something that fits the table cell.

Word was once a good word processor, then decided to become a crappy page layout program instead.

Duke wrote: Try this: Set up a Table that has the desired layout. Click in each cell and Insert Picture. Insert the appropriate picture. If they are too large, right click and Format Picture. Under the Size tab, make sure Maintain Aspect Ratio is checked, then set the size percentage to something that fits the table cell.

I actually tried this very thing before posting...it'll work, but it's not quick and easy. The table size will need to be massaged to fit as well.

Alternatively, you probably have access to Excel 2010 as well. I believe you can dink with the cell sizes to get what you want, and then Insert Pictures and have them fit to the cell.

Generally, as noted Work is hell for page layout. PowerPoint generally works a lot better for it.

One thing you could try is laying out the frames in PP how you want them, then drop in photos. Align a corner inside the frame, hold down shift key and drag the other corner until it fits (resizing photo). Copying and pasting between slides maintains the page position, so making more pages is pretty easy.

You will likely want to adjust the format of the PP (from landscape to portrait) and you probably should take a look at the page size (PP tends to have pretty big margins).

Strange trivia: Pictures imported into PP that are 96dpi will be shown at actual size (e.g. in inches) in PP (I guess PP is 96 dpi, which I believe is a old PC screen standard?)

Gave up on this! Just went the ole fashioned way and formatted the pics individually. I do think you're onto something aircooled. Might have to switch to PPT.

Yeah, PowerPoint is the tool for this job.

I'd probably do it in AutoCAD.