The most basic thing to do with images in a Microsoft Word document is to insert the image into the document.

You may be asking yourself "Why would you want to do that?" The answer is that once the image is in the document, you'll be able to manipulate it in many ways. For this tutorial I will be using the following image

To insert the image, simply click on the Insert tab and then on Picture

Then you browse to it on your computer and the image will be inserted.

See, I told you it was simple!

Ok, so now that the picture is in the document, if you click on the image, notice that the "Format Picture" toolbar is now there

To give you an idea, I'll use the sunflower from above to show you an example of things you can do:

The settings on this one are: Color Menu -> Olive Color, Accent 3 dark, Artistic Effect -> Plastic Wrap, Frame -> Oval, Border Color -> Dark Blue 60%

Now lets learn how we can insert other things to enhance this image even more!