How do I print a background image in Word 2007 without tile?

I thought this would be a piece of cake but realize now it's harder than it
seems even though it should not.

I made a beautiful letterhead for my company but have it in Jpeg

So I decided to write a contract on it with word and paste the letterhead as
a background

I did some searching on how to do this, because as usual, the most simple
and obvious option of doing something was not apparent in a Microsoft program
:(

I tried adding it as a watermark, but you only have options of
50-100-150-200 and 500% and none worked (Again no obvious available option
here to include a manual setting or 75% which might have worked), besides
that i do not want a faded looking picture using this option.

So than i did more research and found an option to add a picture through
page colors option which is next to the watermark option.

I went there (Word/Page Layout/Page Color/Fill Effects/Picture) and clicked
on fill effects than inserted a picture

It went in perfectly so i was very happy, I did print preview it showed
exactly what i wanted to print, I was also able to type on it which is what I
need to do.

But than i printed it and it came out Tiled, why?

All i simply want to do, for the love of God, is take this letterhead Jpeg
that I have and paste it on a word file and write a contract and print it

With 1 billion options why cant this simple thing be done

I was told to visit this page
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=8753&st=1 as well as
this page http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051899221033.aspx

I also found these 2 poor souls who had the same problem but never got an
answer to it:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090212093456AAohO6X

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3673252.php

Can someone please help me figure this out?

Additional information:

I am running Microsoft Windows XP Home premium edition

Using office Word 2007

And my printer is an HP Officejet J4500 All-in-One series

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Answer

Tommystam

So for future reference (personal) it's:

-Open a new word page

-Go to Insert than click on Header than Edit Header

-Afterwards, click on Insert / picture (within the Insert panel again, should be visible already) and add your picture

- Adjust the size by clicking on the small arrow on the top right where it says Size to open the size dialog box

- Immediately afterwards click on the Text Wrapping option, which is located again on the top right and select behind text

-Once that's done, you can now move around your background image by dragging it and resizing it as you see fit

-To switch to text mode, I found that clicking on Print Preview and closing print preview would bring me there automatically (image will now appear blurred because you will be in text mode, bluriness will not show up if you actually print though).

- You can enter all the text you like, if it happens to be longer than 1 page, it will automatically create a new page with your picture.

- If you need to return to the image for editing reasons, go back to Insert and than Header and click on edit header. Notice the bluriness leaves because you exited text mode.

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Answer

Beth Melton

The only solution I've found is to not use the Page Color/background option and to instead insert the image in the Header/Footer. I suspect the reason this occurs is because the intention of the Page Color function is for web pages (which tile an image) rather than printed documents.

To insert your image in the header/footer:

Right-click the header/footer area and then click "Edit Header/Footer"
Insert your picture (Insert tab/Image)
Size it to fit your page (or however large you want)
If there is other content in the header/footer, select the picture and on the Picture Tools Format tab, click Wrap Text and then click Behind Text

~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP

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