

You’ll have to experiment with your image to find what works best. You can click a spot or draw a little bit. Your pointer changes to a pen that lets you highlight the areas of the image you want to keep. We'll need to format the rectangle shape so that the background image is tiled so it will appear correctly.

We're going to add a rectangle shape to the first page in Word and then fill it with the background image. Let’s start with the areas we want to keep. In this tutorial I'm going to use a striped background that I've saved to the desktop.

We’re going to use both the “Mark Areas to Keep” and “Mark Areas to Remove” tools to fix that. Word also marked part of the tiger (the area behind his head) incorrectly as part of the background.

Returning to our example, you can see that Word didn’t correctly mark part of the background-there’s some grass still visible right in front of our tiger’s face. You should now see a new “Background Removal” tab on the Ribbon with a few options: Mark Areas to Keep, Mark Areas to Remove, Discard All Changes, and Keep Changes. Word provides two tools for helping you clean things up. This may be a laymans solution, but at least. Then, as I had been doing previously, inserted the image into my Word document using Page Background -> Page Color -> Fill Effects -> Picture and voila Image is on the screen but does not print. This Is Microsoft’s attempt at auto-detecting the background of an image.Īs you can see, Word isn’t quite sophisticated enough to accurately pick out the background on most images. Edit: Turns out all I had to do was re-size the image in Paint using 'Image Properties' to 8.5'x11'. Click on the Picture Format tab to gain access to the Microsoft Word image editing tools. In the top ribbon menu, look for the additional tab. If you don’t want it anymore, click Page Color again and select No Color to remove the background immediately.Word colors the background the image in magenta everything in magenta will get removed from the image. Here are the simple steps you need to follow for the same: Open a Word document and insert the desired image in your document. If you are a regular user of Ms Word, you may have added pictures and images to your Microsoft word documents, but did you knew about making your images or pictures transparent Don't worry in. If you are satisfied with it, click OK to confirm it.Ħ. After inserting a picture, you can see the sample in Fill Effects window. Or you can type the keyword of the picture you want in the textbox of Bing Image Search and press Enter to search eligible pictures on Internet.ĥ. Select From a file to find a picture you like in the folder of your computer. There should be a box around your picture.
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New update You should really try this, easiest and fastest. The picture will be able to fit in the page, for 99 of the page, if you did draw a perfect text box covering the entire page. Switch to Picture tab in Fill Effects window. Select to insert a picture on the text box. Using Word's built-in tools, you can customize your watermark to any. You can set the gradient effect, texture or pattern here, or even insert a picture as the page background.ģ. This quick tip will explain how to make your Microsoft Word documents more visually appealing through the use of a watermark. Select Fill Effects… in the drop-down menu. Click Page Color in Page Background section. You can choose a background color here or click More Colors for more options.Ģ. Click Page Color in Page Background section.ģ. To refresh yourself, you can insert a picture as the background of Word document. After a long time writing with Microsoft Word, your eyes may already tired of the default blank page.
