In Word 2007 and Word 2010 go to Word Options| Display| Print background colors and images ( we don’t know why a series of print options are under the Display heading) But there’s no such option in Word for Mac – you can open a document with a background and even set a background but can’t print it. Yet another annoying difference between the Windows and Mac versions of Office. Workarounds The alleged Microsoft workaround has been copied in various forums but we think there’s other options. The ‘official’ workaround goes like this: ” What you’re looking for is View> Header & Footer. Insert the higher res image there using Insert> Picture> From File. Set the Text Wrapping (Format>Picture> Layout) to Behind Text & use the features of the Advanced button to set the position of the image Relative To: Page horizontally & vertically. When you return to the text layer the image may appear to be dimmer than you expect but it will print as it should “ This only works in limited circumstances and can get messy to change. If you have access to Word for Windows (either on another computer or a virtual machine on your Mac) there are alternatives. • Send the document to a Word for Windows machine and print from there. The easiest option on an office network. • Send the document to someone with Word for Windows. Open the document in Winword and either ‘print’ or ‘Save As’ the document to a PDF file with the background printing set on. Check the PDF to make sure it has the background. Email the PDF back to you for printing from your computer. The Mac OS comes with PDF preview support in-built though you get more options if you install the free Adobe PDF viewer as well. • Office 2007 SP2 now has save to PDF features in-built while there are plenty of. In this tutorial I'm going to use a cute rainbow background found in the 'Cute Backgounds' category. On a PC you would right click and save the image. On a Mac you would use 'control, right click'. You can save the background to the desired location on your computer. For ease I'm going to save the image to my desktop. This image insertion trick can be used to insert repetitive icons in a large document too. For instance, you may want to complete the content first and then insert the same image at specific places in the document. Open a Word document and insert a placeholder text (e.g. ImageFile) if it is not present. See Also • • • • • •. ![]() ![]() Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a look at creating a background image for your documents in Pages. I'm using Pages version 5 and we're going to take a look at how to add a background image behind your text. I've got a sample document with some sample text and I have this background that I want to set as the background, not only for this page, but for all the pages in the document. So I'm going to drag and drop it in just to get it into the Pages document.
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