How to Put Picture Behind Text in Word

You might want to Put Picture Behind Text in Word document for more than one reason. You might want to put your company’s logo in the background of a work document you’re writing, or you might need a “confidential” watermark on a document with sensitive information. No matter why you want to do it, Microsoft Word makes it easy.

Sometimes a plain text document won’t do, and you’ll need to add an image to the background to make it stand out. Even though it isn’t as powerful as Photoshop or as focused on multimedia presentations as PowerPoint, Word still has some tricks up its sleeve. If you want to know how to add background images to a Word document, keep reading.

How to Put Picture Behind Text in Word

1. Open the Word document with the picture you need to select.
2. Locate the picture and zoom out to view all of it on your screen, if necessary. Adjust your zoom level by clicking the “View” tab and then the “Zoom” button.
3. Click on the “Home” tab near the top of the window.
4. Click the “Select” option in the Editing group to bring up a drop-down menu, then click “Select Objects” from that menu.
5. Click and hold the mouse arrow just outside one of the picture’s corners, then drag it across the picture until it’s just outside the other corner. You should have made a rectangle that goes all the way around the picture.
6. Release the mouse button. Although in some cases the image may not appear to be selected, you have selected it.
7. Click and hold the image to move it to a new position; right-click on the image to bring up options for it.

How Does It Work?

There are two main ways to add a background to a Word document. The first and easiest way is to add a custom picture watermark, which is an image. Once the image is added this way, you can’t change it. The other way to do it is the old-school way, which is to use Insert Picture. If you choose this option, you can still change the image’s contrast, brightness, and a lot of other things.

FAQ

How do I make an object appear behind in Word?

Click the arrow next to or under Bring Forward in the Arrange group on the Home tab, then click Bring to Front. Send an object to the end of the stack: Click the arrow next to or under Send Backward in the Arrange group on the Home tab, then click Send to Back.

How do I make the background of a picture transparent but not text?

You can put the background-image styles in a pseudo-element of the parent element, which is one way to do it. Since the pseudo-element is like a child of the parent element, you can change its opacity without changing the text.

What is behind text wrapping?

The behind text wrap style is like the in line text wrap feature in that it lets text appear on its own line above and below the image. But this feature keeps text from showing up on either side of the picture, no matter how big or small you make it. If you have a picture with a wide width, this may be the best choice.