How to Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical in a Microsoft Word Document Our guide continues below with additional information and pictures for these steps. Select the Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical option.Click the Rotate button at the far-right of the ribbon.Select the Picture Format tab at the top of the window.Click on the picture that you wish to flip.Our tutorial below is going to show you where to locate these rotation options. You may initially consider heading to Google and looking for a way to perform this action in an image editing program like Microsoft Paint or Adobe Photoshop, but you actually have some flip image picture tools in Word that you can use instead. You may need to rotate left or rotate right if it’s in portrait orientation or landscape orientation, or you might need a mirror image of the picture. Sometimes when you add a picture to a Microsoft Word document, that picture won’t be in the orientation that you require. We are going to cover the steps involved in this process briefly at the start of this guide, then we will continue below with additional information and pictures for each of the steps. The steps in this guide are going to show you how to flip a picture in a Microsoft Word document.