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transparent color

Jun 19, 2004 1:33AM PDT

MS word 2002

I scanned a picture of a flower with a colored background and saved it as a .bmp image. I inserted that image to a Word 2002 document. I would like to set the colored background 'transparent' so that on the Word document, only the flower shows up: I selected the inserted image. At the picture tool bar, I used the 'set transparent color' tool and then clicked at the background color, but nothing happened. The background color remained. So - how do I make the color 'transparent' so that only the flower shows up ? The Word document has a colored patterned background.

Thanks.

christy

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Re: transparent color
Jun 19, 2004 8:09AM PDT
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Re: transparent color
Jun 23, 2004 11:15PM PDT

Thanks for the link.
I was working on a MS Word document and trying to set a transparent color for the background of an inserted picture. After some experiments, I found that the background disappeared if the picture used is in JPEG format and if the background is of a light uniform color.

christy