You can click a spot or draw a little bit. Your pointer changes to a pen that lets you highlight the areas of the image you want to keep. Let’s start with the areas we want to keep. We’re going to use both the “Mark Areas to Keep” and “Mark Areas to Remove” tools to fix that. Word also marked part of the tiger (the area behind his head) incorrectly as part of the background. Returning to our example, you can see that Word didn’t correctly mark part of the background-there’s some grass still visible right in front of our tiger’s face. You should now see a new “Background Removal” tab on the Ribbon with a few options: Mark Areas to Keep, Mark Areas to Remove, Discard All Changes, and Keep Changes. Word provides two tools for helping you clean things up. This Is Microsoft’s attempt at auto-detecting the background of an image.Īs you can see, Word isn’t quite sophisticated enough to accurately pick out the background on most images. Word colors the background the image in magenta everything in magenta will get removed from the image.
