Blend objects into the background of your Word documents

Suppose you’ve inserted a picture that contains a blue sky
in your Word document and would like to scatter three stars across the sky. You have
a picture of a yellow star that you use, but the star
is drawn against a red background. You could try to change the background of
the star picture to blue, but why spend time trying to match the color of the
other picture? A quicker way would be to make the red background transparent.
Follow these steps:

1. Go to
   Insert | Picture | From File and double-click the Star file.
2. Click
   the picture and then click the Text Wrapping button on the Picture
   toolbar.
3. Select
   In Front Of Text from the drop-down list.
4. Click
   the Set Transparent Color Tool on the Picture toolbar.
5. Click
   anywhere in the picture’s red background.
6. Click
   and drag the picture to the blue background.
7. Press
   [Ctrl] while you click and drag the picture to insert another copy on the
   blue background.
8. Repeat
   step 7 for each star you want scattered across the sky.

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