Unwanted white space/gap when rotating an image in Word

I've been fighting this issue off and on for a while and today I noticed that I was having the issue in a document opened in "Compatibility Mode" but when I opened a fresh document I didn't have the issue with the excess border on top and bottom of my rotated image.  So I saved my document as a native docx file and the issue went away for me.  Maybe this will be similar to your situation.

Thanks for the info.  You've found the source of the problem. 

For me, I did the following:

* save as .docx, without compatibility mode checked.

* close file

* reopen file

* I noticed some images still have "padding".  For those, two additional steps were required.

* Reset the size & position for the image. (Format > Reset Picture > Reset Picture & Size)

* Set rotation/cropping, as needed.

FYI, my version is Office Pro 2010.  My file was originally saved as .docx (compatibility mode enabled) and had the problem, so it's not limited to .doc files.

I've been fighting this issue off and on for a while and today I noticed that I was having the issue in a document opened in "Compatibility Mode" but when I opened a fresh document I didn't have the issue with the excess border on top and bottom of my rotated image.  So I saved my document as a native docx file and the issue went away for me.  Maybe this will be similar to your situation.

I just saw this problem this week in a document. The image was a landscape certificate that had been scanned, inserted, and turned 90° in the Word Document.  The text wrap was fine when using W2007, but in W2010 the height allowed for the rotated image was the same as that for the unrotated one.  I'd have wasted a lot of time figuring it out if  I hadn't remembered your post here.  Thanks for that.

This is definitely something that need to be fixed.

Pam

No, the borders are directly around the picture. There is just extra space above and below the picture. At first I thought it might be some kind of paragraph spacing, but it appears that Word "holds" the extra space that had been there from the rotated image. I think you will only see this problem if you are taking an image that is "portrait" (taller than it is wide) and rotating it to "landscape" so that it is now wider than it is tall.

I ended up rotating the images in a photo editor first, because I did not want to set the text wrapping to tight in this particular document and rotating it was messing up my spacing. It just does not seem logical that Word should do this to an image.

When you click the image, are the image "borders" far outside the actual picture?  If so, this is part of the image. You can crop it  off yourself or, as I do, ask the artists to create  images without the extra space.

Pam