diff --git a/src/lib/editor/extensions/image.ts b/src/lib/editor/extensions/image.ts
index 9cb033d..5003c6b 100644
--- a/src/lib/editor/extensions/image.ts
+++ b/src/lib/editor/extensions/image.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ export function parsePx(value: string | null): number | null {
 
 export const clamp = (v: number, lo: number, hi: number) => Math.max(lo, Math.min(hi, v));
 
+// An as-character image wider than the text column takes a line of its own and leaves an
+// empty one above it. Fitting it to the column is where an image the file sizes to the
+// column lands anyway, once its cm/EMU width is rounded to whole px (importers).
+export function fitInlineImage(attrs: Record<string, unknown>, maxWidthPx: number): void {
+  const w = attrs.width;
+  if (typeof w !== 'number' || w <= maxWidthPx) return;
+  if (typeof attrs.height === 'number') attrs.height = Math.max(1, Math.round((attrs.height * maxWidthPx) / w));
+  attrs.width = maxWidthPx;
+}
+
 // The page text height in px, capping how tall an image can be stretched. Read live
 // from the :root vars the editor maintains (orientation/margins change them).
 export function pageContentHeightPx(): number {
diff --git a/src/lib/import/docx.ts b/src/lib/import/docx.ts
index 90916b1..2f62dc3 100644
--- a/src/lib/import/docx.ts
+++ b/src/lib/import/docx.ts
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ import { lengthToPt } from './styleResolver';
 import { HEADING_STYLE_OVERRIDES, MAX_HEADING_LEVEL, normalizeColor } from '../export/odt';
 import { builtinStyleSheet, DEFAULT_STYLE, type ParaProps, type Style, type StyleSheet, type TextProps } from '../styles/styleSheet';
 import { HEADER_SHADE } from '../editor/extensions/tableHeaderRow';
+import { fitInlineImage } from '../editor/extensions/image';
 import { formatTabStops } from '../editor/extensions/tabStops';
 import { tableLookAttr } from '../styles/tableStyles';
 import { orderedTypeFromFormat, orderedTypeAttrAt, childCycle, ROOT_ORDERED_CYCLE, type OrderedCycle } from '../utils/orderedListTypes';
 import { bulletCharAttr, bulletCharFromDocx } from '../utils/bulletListTypes';
 import { DATE_FORMATS, TIME_FORMATS, docxPicture, toDateValue } from '../utils/dateTime';
 import { imageDataUrl, type ConvertedImages } from './imageFormats';
-import { PX_PER_CM, type PageMargins } from '../storage/pageMargins';
+import { PX_PER_CM, cmToPx, type PageMargins } from '../storage/pageMargins';
 import type { Orientation } from '../storage/pageOrientation';
 import { formatFromCm, type PageFormat } from '../storage/pageFormat';
 import { languageFromOdf, NO_LANGUAGE, type DocumentLanguage } from '../storage/documentLanguage';
@@ -1142,6 +1143,7 @@ function convertDrawing(drawing: Element, ctx: Ctx): Node | null {
   if (Number.isFinite(rot) && rot) attrs.rotation = ((Math.round(rot / 60000) % 360) + 360) % 360;
 
   if (anchor) attrs.wrap = anchorWrap(anchor, ctx);
+  else fitInlineImage(attrs, Math.floor(cmToPx(ctx.contentWidthCm)));
   return { type: 'image', attrs };
 }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/import/odt.ts b/src/lib/import/odt.ts
index db057ed..465add3 100644
--- a/src/lib/import/odt.ts
+++ b/src/lib/import/odt.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { StyleResolver, NS, lengthToPt, lengthToCm, layerTextProps, type PropMap
 import { HEADING_STYLE_OVERRIDES, MAX_HEADING_LEVEL, ODF_LOOK_ATTRS, normalizeColor } from '../export/odt';
 import { builtinStyleSheet, DEFAULT_STYLE, type ParaProps, type Style, type StyleSheet, type TextProps } from '../styles/styleSheet';
 import { HEADER_SHADE } from '../editor/extensions/tableHeaderRow';
+import { fitInlineImage } from '../editor/extensions/image';
 import { formatTabStops } from '../editor/extensions/tabStops';
 import { TABLE_REGIONS, tableLookAttr, type TableLook, type TableRegion } from '../styles/tableStyles';
 import { orderedTypeFromFormat, orderedTypeAttrAt, childCycle, ROOT_ORDERED_CYCLE, type OrderedCycle } from '../utils/orderedListTypes';
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ function convertFrame(frame: Element, ctx: Ctx): Node | null {
   const title = frame.getElementsByTagNameNS(NS.svg, 'title')[0]?.textContent;
   if (title) attrs.alt = title;
   applyFrameRotationAndWrap(frame, attrs, ctx.resolver.graphicProps(frame.getAttributeNS(NS.draw, 'style-name')));
+  if (!attrs.wrap || attrs.wrap === 'inline') fitInlineImage(attrs, Math.floor(cmToPx(ctx.contentWidthCm)));
   return { type: 'image', attrs };
 }