[grasshopper1947]

Oooops. I just realized that this is a Word newsgroup.
I'll go post my question in a different newsgroup.
And thanks, Graham, for your patience and for your help.



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

As you have FrontPage, this is a much better tool than Word for creating and
managing web pages and fairly straightforward to use, however it still has
the basic issue that background images in html will tile or crop if they are
the wrong size for the page. html documents do not conform to pages.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



grasshopper1947 wrote:
I am trying to build an index web page (home page) using a Word
Document. I want a picture of a UFO as the background to the web page.
I will then print text and other images over the UFO background.
I'm all open to any suggestions you have regarding a better way to do
this.

I have MS Office 2000, which includes Front Page.
But I'm not familiar (or comfortable) with it's use. However I'm
willing to learn.



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

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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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



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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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



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