- Go to Insert Pictures Picture from File. Locate the image you want to use as a background. Select the image file, then click Insert. With the image selected, go to.
- Alternatively, I tried to add a normal image to the header (behind text), which also is not displayed in Word Online. The use case is that my client does want the background image to show up when saving to PDF, but they do not want the background image to print on paper.
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If you want to insert background, from page color options, click Fill Effects. It will open up Fill Effects dialog, switch to Picture tab and click Select Picture. It will bring up Select Picture dialog, now navigate through folders to find desired image and click Insert. The image will be inserted in the dialog, now click OK. Word 2013 includes the background picture option on its Watermark menu, which you may have previously dismissed as not offering the functionality that you need. But you have the ability to set a custom watermark for your document in Word 2013, and one of the options for a custom watermark is a picture. Select the image by clicking on it. On the Picture Tools Format tab, in the Picture Styles group, click Picture Border. Select a color by clicking on it. Click Picture Border again and hover over Weight or Dashes to set the width and line style of the border.
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