Microsoft Word is software that people worldwide uses to edit their documents, write essays and even create bookmarks or flyers; it comes with a lot of editing features that can make your flyers or cards look cool and attractive. Microsoft Word consists of features to color your text, add shapes or pictures and make images within your Word document transparent.
How to make a Picture transparent in Word
Follow the steps to make an image transparent in Microsoft Word:
- Launch Word.
- Insert a Picture into your document.
- Click the Format Picture tab.
- Locate the Adjust group
- Click Transparency there
- Select a transparency percentage.
Launch Word.
Insert a picture into your document.
Click the picture and click the Format Picture tab and click the Transparency button in the Adjust group.
In the Transparency menu, choose a percentage of how you want the image to be transparent.
If you have text in the document and you want the image to be behind it, right-click the transparent image, hover the cursor over Wrap text, and select Behind Text.
The transparent photo will go behind the text.
If you want to set your own transparency of your picture. Click the Transparency button and click the Picture transparency options from the menu.
A Format Picture pane will open.
Set the transparency of the picture to how you want it, then close the Format Picture pane.
You can also set the transparency of your picture by right-clicking the picture and selecting Format Picture from the context menu.
The Format Picture pane will open.
Now, click the Picture tab and set the transparency of your photo.
How do I create a faded effect in Word?
- Insert a picture into the document.
- Ensure that the picture is selected.
- Click the Picture Format tab.
- In the Adjust Group, click Artistic Effects and select Blur from the menu.
How do I make text background transparent in Word?
- Insert a textbox into the document.
- Type text into the textbox.
- Click the Shape Format tab.
- Click the Text Fill button in the WordArt Styles group.
- Click the White palette in the menu.
READ: How to use Pictures as Bullets in Microsoft Word
How can I remove color from an image?
- Insert the Picture into the Word document.
- Ensure that the picture is selected.
- Click the Picture Format tab.
- In the Adjust group, click the Color button and select Grayscale in the context menu.
READ: Remove the Background of a Picture with Microsoft Word
We hope this tutorial helps you understand how to make an image transparent in Word; if you have questions about the tutorial, let us know in the comments.
