If you are having a tough time managing images in your document, the following tips will surely help you.

Majority of the time, we want the images in the document to stick at a fixed position. Images that float are hard to manage.

To fix an image at a certain position in the document

1. Click the image. The Picture Tools menu group is enabled in Word Ribbon.

1. On the Format tab under the menu Pictures Tools , within the group Arrange, click the drop-down list button Text Wrapping.
2. Click In Line with Text from the drop-down list. The selected image will be fixed at a line in the document.
3. You can click and drag the image to a different line in the document.
4. To place the image at a different position horizontally, place the mouse cursor in front of the image and then use Tab or Space Bar to move the  image horizontally to a new position.

To wrap text around an image

1. Select the image.
2. On the Format tab under Pictures Tools menu, within the group Arrange, click the drop-down menu Text Wrapping .
3. Select Square from the drop-down list. Text will be arranged around the image in the shape of a square.
4. If image has an irregular shape (such as a star), click Tight from the drop-down list. Text takes the shape of the image around it.

Note:  If the image inserted has an irregular shape (such as a star), select the option Tight to arrange text around the shape.