How to put multiple pictures into one Word document

Method 1: insert several pictures in Word

1. 1Open your document and click where the first picture should go.
2. 2Choose Insert › Pictures › This Device (on a Mac: Insert › Pictures › Picture from File).
3. 3Hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) and click each image you want, then choose Insert.
4. 4Word places the pictures one after another. Right-click a picture and choose Insert Caption to label it.

This works well for a handful of images. With dozens, getting the order right in a file dialog gets fiddly, and that's where a batch tool helps.

Method 2: build the Word document in one step

1. 1Open Mergevanta's Images to Word tool in any modern browser.
2. 2Add your images. PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF and BMP all work.
3. 3Drag the thumbnails into the order you want them to appear down the page.
4. 4Press Merge to build one .docx with every picture embedded.
5. 5Download it and open it in Word, Pages or Google Docs to add captions, headings or notes.

Keeping pictures tidy in Word

• Keep In Line with Text wrapping, Word's default, so pictures stay in order and move with the text around them.
• Give pictures the same width: select one, set its width under Picture Format › Size, then repeat for the others.
• Put pictures in a table to lay them out in a grid, two or three to a row.
• Add captions with References › Insert Caption so Word numbers them and can build a list of figures.
• Large photos make large documents. If the file is too big to email, use Picture Format › Compress Pictures.

Need a PDF instead?

If the pictures don't need editing afterwards, a PDF is often the better choice: Images to PDF and JPG to PDF put one image on each page, and the file looks the same everywhere. Already built the Word document? Convert it with Word to PDF once your captions are in place.