OK, I see what you are doing. The Fill effect option inserts the picture at
full size. If the picture overfills the page it is cropped. If it underfills
the page it is tiled to fill the available space. You would need to first
scale the image to the exact size of the page in order to insert it in this
manner.
Background images are intended for html documents, at which Word is less
than brilliant. What is the aim of the requirement? You could, for example
insert the image on the page, scale to fit and set its layout option to
behind text.
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grasshopper1947 wrote:
Okay, I did an | Insert | Picture | From File |
/Desktop/MyBackgndImage/ | I resized it to 20% according to your
directions.
Then when I did a | Format | Background | Fill Effects | Other
Texture | Select Texture |
I realized that I cannot select the picture I just resized inside my
document!
Because of the choices in the "Select Texture" window, I can only
tell it to go back to /Desktop/MyBackgndImage/ (which is the original
huge picture).
So I saved my resized picture from the document to the desktop. Then
when I directed the "Select Texture" window to go pick that saved
image, I got about 20 or 30 small images all tiled and repeated in
the background.
What am I doing wrong?
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Select the picture. Right click Format Picture Size - change the
size to fit.
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grasshopper1947 wrote:
Windows XP
Word 2000
I downloaded a picture from fotolia.com to use as a background in a
document I am creating using Word 2000 and which I will publish to
my website.
When I insert the picture in "web view" as a background, it is so
huge that all I can see on the web page is just a small area in the
upper left corner of the picture. If I move the horizontal and
virtical scroll bars, I can see the whole picture.
How can I re-size the picture so it will just fill my document
window, so I can see the whole thing on one page?
Thanks in advance
steve