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Word 2010 has a great feature called Background
Removal, which can automatically remove parts

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of the picture that you don't want.

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This can give your pictures a cleaner appearance,
and if it's a document you're going to be

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printing, it can also save ink.

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To get started, click on the picture, and
then go to the Format tab.

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Then, select the Remove Background command.

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And don't worry if it doesn't look good yet
because we're going to adjust it.

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The first thing you should do is drag these
selection handles so that the foreground areas

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of the picture are all inside the box.

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Once you do that, Word will automatically
readjust the image.

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Right now, the background areas are marked
with kind of a magenta or purple color, but

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when we're done, those areas will be removed
completely.

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With some pictures, Word needs a little bit
of help deciding which areas to remove and

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which areas to keep.

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In this picture, there are a couple of problems.

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The woman's hand and the girl's fingers are
marked as background, so we need to tell Word

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to keep those areas in the picture.

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Click Mark Areas to Keep and then click and
drag to create a line somewhere in the middle

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of this area, and Word will readjust the picture.

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But now it's including part of the background
as well, so we need to mark this area to remove.

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That looks better.

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Go through the image and add markings wherever
they're needed, and if you make a mistake,

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just click Delete Mark and then click on the
mark and it will disappear.

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It looks like our foreground subjects are
good, and the entire background is magenta,

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so the last step is just to click Keep Changes.

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And that's it!

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Since the background has been cut out, anything
that's behind this picture will now show through,

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so if you want, you can give it a new background
by putting a shape or picture behind it.

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And at any time, if you see something that
you've missed, you can always edit the picture

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again by clicking on it and going back to
the background removal tool.