Learn how to remove the background from a picture in a Microsoft Office file. Use the automatic background removal or draw lines to indicate the areas to keep and remove.

Add or Change the background of a document with pre-selected or custom colors, fill effects like gradient, texture, or patters, or use a picture.

Try it! Remove the background from a picture to highlight the photo's subject or remove distracting detail. Note: This feature is only available for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Try it! Remove the background from a picture to highlight the photo's subject or remove distracting detail. Note: This feature is only available for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Remove an unwanted section of an image, photo, or screenshot. Use the background removal tool in Office apps.

If you’re layering text on top of a picture, chart, or other graphic, you may want to remove the background color and border of the text box, so that the text appears to float on top, rather …

You can't make a picture transparent in Word for the web. You have to use a desktop version of Word (on either Windows or macOS) instead.

Apply pictures, gradients, colors, or textures on all or part of a table, or remove unwanted shading.

Remove a watermark by clicking the header area If you can't delete a watermark using Remove Watermark, try this: Double-click near the top of the page to open the header area. Put your …

Repeating the process with a different color will remove the transparency from the first color. To undo color changes, click Reset Picture in the Adjust group. Note: When you print pictures …