Can anyone help me create a word document with a camouflage background?

[Dannie]

I'm trying to do DS1's birthday invitations. Is there a way I can produce something with a faint camouflage background and text over the top? (Erm, for the record I feel very embarrased about the imagery, so tasteful would be good...)

Also, if you find that the picture sticks itself in the middle of your sheet of paper and you can't get it any bigger, try as above, but do

Format - Background - Fill Effects - Picture tab, select the picture you have saved - OK

This should repeat the pattern so it totally fills the piece of paper, but you won't get it faded as you can with the Watermark, unless you fiddle with the picture first in a picture editor. If you type the text in a pale font you can get round it!

Camouflage
Has a camouflage pattern. Google image search will find more.
Right click on the picture and select copy.

Start Word and paste it in.
Stretch until it occupies the page.
You may find the "Stencil" font looks suitably militaristic.

Thanks so much! I'll try & see how I get on.

When I printed it, I just got the text. Dominic's right & Stencil looks super, but can anyone suggest why I'm not getting the background?

I think you need to untick washout?

Thanks Katymac, sorry to be thick, but where?

Format>>Background>>printed watermark ?

I think??

I have never been able to print a background in Word when I format the background - what I do is create an autoshape rectangle the size of the page & format that. Format Autoshape - choose fill effects from the drop down menu by the -colour box picture - & browse for the saved picture. Move the transparency slider until it's the level you want You then have to change the order so the autoshape is at the back & text at the front.

a bodge-it solution:

type out your text. insert a text box to your chosen size and "fill" it with your chosen background. your text will disappear. right click on your text box and somewhere towards the bottom of the list, i think it may be called "order" although i haven't got word on this pc so cant check...anyway, click on "send to back" and your text should re-appear in front of the background.

snap rustybear!

Worked for me

Gosh that never happens

Now I have a camoflaged piece of paper with TEST on it....can I use that somehow?

Thanks for this - just done the invites for ds's christening using the instructions on this thread (but not the camo background )

Thanks a million for all the suggestions.