How to make text wrap round a picture
First, drag a picture by its icon from a Finder window and into your page, and place it where you want it. In the screenshot below, I'm just in the act of placing it at the very beginning of the text. If you look carefully, you can see the vertical insertion cursor just to the left of the word 'Holdost'. You can drag the picture around the text on the page, watching where the cursor falls as you drag, and let go of the mouse when it's in the right place.
Next, making sure ONLY the picture is selected, you go to the 'Format' menu at the top of the screen, pull it down, and drag down to 'HTML' near the bottom. In the HTML submenu that flies out, you choose 'Align Image Left' or 'Align Image Right' depending on which side of the picture you want the text to wrap round.
This is where a lot of folks go wrong; they choose the wrong alignment option. They pick 'Align Left' in the 'Format' menu, instead of 'Align Image Left' in the 'HTML' submenu that's within the 'Format' menu. This screenshot shows the correct place to choose the alignment option, left or right.
'Align Left' 'Center' and 'Align Right' apply to text justification, not picture alignment.
The other reason you might have
trouble wrapping text is that the text has the
'Paragraph' setting added to it. If this is the
case, the area where the text is will be coloured
green. This is usually because instead of just
clicking on the picture to select it, before you
choose the alignment option, you've selected all
the text as well. If you do that, even if you
apply the correct method as described above, it
won't work, because the text is marked as a
Paragraph, and will always drop down below the
picture. If your text isn't wrapping, look to see
if it's green and, if it is, select all the text
(but only the text), go to the
Format>HTML menu shown in the top screenshot,
and choose 'None' at the top of the submenu. Oh,
and there's one more reason why it might not seem
to have worked: you only see the wrapping in
Preview mode. In Edit mode, nothing will seem to
change. A small point, but one that some folks
miss.
