How to Flip/Mirror an Image in Google Docs Quickly [3 Easy Ways]

Welcome to ‘The TechVin’, Today in this article of TechVin you are going to get the solution to your question ‘How to Flip an Image in Google Docs’ on Desktop and Smartphone both. It is too simple to flip an image in google docs 2020. We have to edit the image in google docs to get the mirror version of that image. You can learn ‘How to Mirror an Image in Google Docs’ vertically and horizontally very quickly in just a few seconds.

Google docs have so many amazing features to edit any type of document. We can also edit the image in google docs directly and quickly. Google docs provide a feature or tool which is used to edit the image in google docs. We are going to use this tool in this process to flip an image in google docs. In this article, we have two ways to mirror an image in google docs on a desktop.

How to Flip an image in Google Docs

We can easily flip our image in google docs. First, we need to insert our image in the drawing tool. In the drawing tool, we have different options to flip an image. The first way is to right-click on the image and then click on the option of rotate. When you click on rotate then you can see different options to flip your image in google docs. This is just a concise description, you can learn it step by step to understand it better.

There are more ways available in this article, by which you can learn How to flip an image in google docs and How to Mirror an Image in Google Docs easily. You just need to explore this article and read the complete article to get better knowledge.

The first way, which we have described in the upper paragraph, is available below, We have divided it into two parts so that you can learn it easily. Read this and learn How to Flip an image in Google Docs with the help of a drawing tool.

Insert Image in Google Docs

1. First, open Google docs on your PC. You can click on Open Google docs to open it directly on your desktop if you are reading this article on your desktop.
2. In google docs, you have to open the document in which you want to flip an image.
3. After that, you have to put your cursor on the page and place where you want to insert the image.
4. Now you have to click on the Insert tab, which is available in the upper menu bar.
5. A drop-down menu will open in which you have to click on the image option. This image option is first in the drop-down menu. 
6. You have some options to insert the image from different platforms.  Click on the anyone option where your image is available, which you want to flip. When you select the image, then insert it.
7. Now your image is inserted where you had put your cursor.

Flip an Image in Google Docs

1. You have to right-click on the image which you want to flip and then click on copy to copy this image.   
2. When you have copied the image, then you have to click on the insert tab in the menu bar.   
3. One drop-down menu will open in which you have to click on the option of Drawing. 
4. After that, you have to click on the option of new.
5. A drawing tool will be open in front of you to edit the image.   
6. You have to right-click in the blank space of this tool and then click on the paste to insert your copied image in the drawing tool.   
7. Now you have to right-click on this image and then you have to click on Rotate. 
8. When you click on the rotate option, then you have four options in which the two options are of the flip.
   • • If you want to flip an image vertically, then you have to click on flip vertically.
     • If you want to flip an image horizontally, then you have to click on the flip horizontal.   
9. After completing these steps, your image is flipped as you want to flip an image. We have clicked on Flip horizontally so our image looks like this.   

These are the complete steps that you have to follow to flip an image in google docs. If you have read this process carefully, then I am sure you have learned How to Flip an image in google docs or How to Mirror an Image in Google Docs. But If you are not satisfied with this way then you can learn the second way.

How to Flip an Image in Google docs in Just a Few Seconds (Second way)

We have one more way by which you can learn How to flip an image in google docs. You can also follow this way to flip an image in google docs. But in this way, you have to focus on the margins. The margins can be changed of the image if you follow this way to flip an image. But if you focus on the margins and the ruler, then it is too easy to flip an image without harming its margins.

1. Firstly Open google docs on your PC.
2. In google docs, you have to open the document, in which you want to flip an image.
   • If you don’t have an image in the document then you have to insert the image.
3. Copy the image from your document which you want to flip in google docs.   
4. Click on the Insert tab in the menu bar after copying the image. 
5. A drop-down menu will open in which you have to click on the drawing option. 
6. Then click on new to open a drawing tool in google docs.
7. After that paste your image into the drawing tool.   
8. Now you have to click on the left mid anchor point of the image and drag it to the right side. You have to drag your image like the below image.     
   • Note: Get the attention on margin points and note them before dragging the anchor point.
9. Now you have to click on the right mid anchor point and drag it to the left side.     
10. Now adjust the margins of the image, and your image is flipped as you want.

Important instruction: If you want to flip it vertically, then you have to do the same. You have to just drag the upper and lower anchor points.

Well, during this process some unnecessary pages can be created in your Google Document. So if you want to learn how to delete the page in Google docs, then you can click on the below text.

How to Delete a Page in Google docs ⇐ Click on it to read it.

Flip an Image in Google Docs on Smartphone

If you don’t have a PC, then you can flip your image in google docs on smartphones as well. You have to just follow these steps to learn How to flip an image in google docs very quickly. Google docs app doesn’t have this feature to flip an image. So we are going to do this process in the Browser to flip an image.

1. Firstly you have to open the google chrome browser on your mobile.
2. Open desktop site mode in your browser. If you have chrome then you can follow these steps to open the desktop site.
   1. Firstly you have to click on three dots that appear in the upper right corner of your mobile screen.
   2. After that, you can see the option of a desktop site. You have to click on it to ON the desktop site mode.
3. When you have ON the desktop site mode then you have to click on https://docs.google.com/document/  this link to open the google docs in chrome browser.
4. Now you have to open the document in which you want to flip the image.

Once you have completed these steps then your mobile works like a desktop. So you have to follow the upper two ways to flip an image in google docs. Because your mobile is now your desktop so you can follow the upper ways which are used in the desktop to flip an image. Now you have learned How to Flip an Image in Google Docs on smartphones very quickly and easily.

Sometimes the documents that we have made in google docs are not looked clear in the google docs app on a smartphone. In this condition, we can make the double space in the document to make it clear. You have to just click on the below text to open that article and to learn it.

How to Double Space in Google docs ⇐ Click on it to read it.

How to Undo or Remove the Mirror image to the Real image.

You have learned How to Flip an Image in Google Docs. But you also need to learn how to get back the real image. In some situations, we need our real image. So If you want your real image back in your google doc and you don’t want a mirror image then you have to follow these easy steps.

1. If you have inserted a flipped image recently, then you have to simply press the Ctrl + Z on your PC.
2. You can also follow the complete process to get the real image back in your document.

You can also track the changes to get the flipped image back. This is also a method to get the exact image that we have in our past version of the document. So if you want to learn How to track changes in google docs and then how to get rid of a mirror image or flipped image then you can click on the below text to redirect to that article. In this article, you will get a brief detailed solution.

How to Track Changes in Google docs ⇐ Click on it to read it.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

In this section, we are going to include the questions that are frequently asked by peoples. These are the questions for which people also ask. So we have decided to answer all these questions.

How do you flip an image in Google Docs?

Answer: First, Open the image in the google drawing tool and then right-click on the image. After that, click on rotate and then click rotate horizontally to flip the image. Your image is flipped now.

How do you flip a shape in Google Drawings?

Answer: Create the shape that you want to flip, after the left click on its mid-right anchor point and drag it to the left side until your shape was completely flipped.

How to Rotate Image in Google Docs?

Answer: Copy the image and then open the drawing tool in google docs. Paste the image in the drawing tool and then just right-click on the image and select rotate and then click on horizontally to rotate the image. Your image is now rotated in google docs.

How to Move Image in Google Docs?

Answer: You can simply copy the image and then paste it into google docs. Either you can click on the insert tab and then click on the image>from computer or drive, then select the image and click on open to move it into Google docs.

How to Mirror an Image in Google Docs?

Answer: You just need to open the image in the drawing tool of google docs and then right-click on the image and then select Rotate and then click on the flip horizontally to mirror an image in Google Docs.

Important information & Conclusion

All these ways which we have described in this article have the solution of How to Flip an Image in Google docs on Desktop and Smartphone both. I hope that you have read all the ways carefully and now you should go on your google docs account and Flip your image in google docs. But before that please read these last words of this article.

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