Stilly -

Different versions of Word may be a little different, but in the recent ones I've used:

If you go to View | Toolbars and put a check by the "Pictures" toolbar, when you left click on a picture the toolbar should pop up. You can leave it on the document, but I usually drag it up to the toolbar. The toolbar should go away when you click back to another part of the document, and it should come back the next time wherever you left it.

You can click on the little doggie to set wrap, but if you click on the paint bucket (Format Picture), you get ONE menu window, with tabs for ALL of the things you can do to your picture. The Layout tab gets your little doggie, where most of the good stuff is on the Advanced button.

If you need to recover a picture out of a Word document, it sometimes helps to paste it on a separate page or in a new document - in Word, and resize it to as large as you can get it before you do the "recovery." Most recovery/copy methods get you screen resolution (72 dpi) at whatever size is displayed in the document. Word may have a lot more information than that, but it doesn't get passed out. Later versions of Word allow "compression" of images, and if that's been done you may not get much more back; but if the image was a good one when you pasted it, sometimes Word can bring it back up to better quality for the save.

The best way I've found to actually do the recovery is to copy the picture in Word, and then go to Photoshop Elements and do a File | New From Clipboard. You can just paste onto a blank picture in PSE, but for some reason it always seems to look better to me with the "New File" method.

John