From the course: The Best of Word Tips Weekly

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- [Instructor] Adding graphical imagery, like photographs, to your Word document can make it more visually interesting, but there are a number of tools to make them even more interesting, and we're going to explore one of them in this week's Word Tip, one that allows you to remove the background. Removing the background in a photo allows text to behave differently as it wraps around, and we're going to work with this document. If you have the exercise files, open up Tech Connect 008, or you can be working with one of your own documents, so long as it contains a photograph including a background you might like to remove. Check out page two here where we see some people. The gray-shaded walls in the background, and even this other room, would be nice if we removed that, then the text wouldn't actually have to wrap around the rectangle we see here. It could get nice and close to the people, adding a different visual effect. So, the first thing I like to do is zoom in, so I'm looking just…

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