If you're looking for something a little different, you can also try this colorful textured background with shades of blue, violet and pink. To make your superimposed text stand out in contrast to the foreground, try this blurred background with hints of green and yellow lights. If you're looking for a festive background for your presentation, try this creative design with colorful geometric shapes such as circles, hexagons, lines and triangles. Polygon backgrounds like these are in vogue nowadays as they add depth and perspective to your presentation and other visual content. This green-and-blue isometric cubes pattern can be used in almost any project as it adds visual interest and texture to your background. If you want viewers to concentrate mostly on your content and limit distractions, you can go with this abstract lines background with only a few subtle design elements in the background. Geometric designs can add movement and vitality to your content, as in the case of this green-yellow-and-blue background. This wavy-line pattern can be used in a variety of projects, as long as it doesn't interfere with the content on your page. This combines well with presentations or visual content looking to create an adventurous and intrepid feel.įor the typical work environment background, you can use this image of a person typing on their laptop with a dark, transparent overlay, ideal for placing text on top. To evoke the feelings associated with nature and the outdoors-with a bit of magical wonder-you can go for this image background with a dark transparent overlay to make it easy to add text and preserve its readability.įor a simple landscape background, try this minimal design with outlines of mountains and hills. This could be useful for student or teacher presentations on art, painting or design. If you're looking for an artistic or abstract look, you can use this blue-and-purple design which emulates a hand-painted watercolor painting. The image is inserted into the document as usual.Add your own text and images to these simple backgrounds Download for Free You can do this at any time while making the document but, at first, it’s easier to set the image background before anything else. Insert | Picture and select the image you want to use. To make a flexible Word page background, insert an image into a document then ‘Send to Back’ so it’s a back layer for text and other document content to show in front. Images and shapes can be layered so one image overlays another. With an image on the ‘back’ sheet and text on another sheet combined you get a document with an image plus text overlaid. When the sheets are put on top of each other you see the finished document. Each sheet contains images or text that you can adjust without changing things on other sheets. Think of layers as like a series of clear plastic sheets on top of each other. They aren’t as complex or powerful as layers in image programs like Photoshop but Word has layers all the same. In short: Insert a picture into a Word document and send it to the back of the document layers. The solution is to forget about Word’s Page Background feature and use another method that gives you more control. Note that the ‘sample’ in the Insert Picture dialog above bears no relation to what happens in the document, Unless the picture is exactly the same size as the page, it’ll probably look wrong. There’s no provision to resize or reposition the page background image within Word. If the image is too small for the page, the image is repeated. What you see on the Word page is the top left corner of the image. It’s mostly used for a small repeating pattern image like this: Then we’ll show you the way that actually works □ The Approved Methodįor a long time, Microsoft Word has the ability to put in a picture as the background to a page. The advantage of a background image in a Word document is that, once setup and locked ‘behind text’, the image won’t conflict with any text, shape or images you put in the document.įirstly we’ll show you the Microsoft approved method for putting an image in the page background and why it’s not very useful. But there are times in more creative work where you want the page fully or partly backgrounded. Most of the time a page background image is distracting to the main document text or you can use the Watermark feature. We’ll show you other Word features that work better (or at all). Using a picture as the background for Word page isn’t as straight forward because the official or approved method doesn’t work very well. Add a background image to any page in a Word document instead of a solid color or pattern.
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