A figure is pasted in my word file.

[thank-smile]

The size of the drawing is much less than the boundary of
the figure. Does anyone know how to reduce the boundary size?

 

[wiredbliss]

If it is a figure: You should be able to select the figure and select the
crop icon on the drawing toolbar. You can then reduce the boundary size.

If it is a drawing: when you select the drawing there are "tick marks" at
the corners and the mid-sections of the boundaries. Clicking and dragging
these will reduce the boundary size.

Brandt

 

[thank-smile]

it's a drawing.
The problem is that the real thing of the drawing is not occupying
the whole drawing. If I drag the boundaries, the "empty part" surounding
the "real thing" is also amplified.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have misunderstood. On the Picture toolbar, click on the Crop button.
You will then be able to drag the side of the picture to remove the white
area. It's better to do this in an external graphics editor, however, since
cropping in Word doesn't really remove the excess, just hides it. This is
handy if you someday want to restore it, but (a) it doesn't reduce the file
size and (b) some printers will perversely print the whole graphic anyway,
but squished to the cropped size.