Tuesday, February 27, 2007

How to set a background in my Excel spreadsheet and Word document?

That's a question from ams. I gave him a short tutorial using Office 2007. I'm publishing it here as a starter post, hoping in the future I can post useful things for others :P. Sorry, it's a very simple tutorial on a very simple subject :P. Hey... at least it's useful for ams.

MS Word 07
1. Get ready with your document, either you create a new file or open an existing file.
2. Click Insert tab.
3. Click Picture button, the one with a picture of two mountains and a sun... a very familiar picture, yeah? We should sue Microsoft for using our childhood drawing without our permission.
4. Here comes an open-file-dialog. Browse and select an image file that you like as a background of your document.
5. Now, you have the picture in your page. Next thing you need to do is set its Text Wrapping property. You can do this by doing right-click on the picture and clicking Text Wrapping menu or you can simply click Text Wrapping button inside Arrange button group. Then choose Behind Text option.
6. You can add the text you want ON the picture. If you think that the picture is too dominant as a background, you can recolor the picture. All you need to do is right click on the picture, select Format Picture. After Format Picture dialog box is showing, select Picture menu at the left panel, click the button next to Recolor text, click a less apparent cloud-picture-button, and then click Close. If you still don't like it, set the transparency of your pic with your image editor before you insert it into your document.

MS Excel 2007
1. Get ready with your spreadsheet.
2. Click Page Layout tab.
3. Click Background button. Yeah, I know I know, we're gonna sue them for sure.
4. Browse and select the pic you want in the open-file-dialog, then click Insert.
et voila, your background is ready. Btw, don't use the Picture button inside Insert tab because there's no Text Wrapping property in Excel. Don't worry, Background button also use the same two-mountains-and-sun scenery that we love so much.

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