Background Removal is a new feature in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook that makes the process quick and easy for any picture. No expensive photo editing package required and no need to learn the cumbersome process of selecting and removing portions of the image. The Office Background Removal tool doesn’t just select color ranges or trim to a border you draw. Background Removal uses new capabilities and algorithms from the Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK to achieve better results automatically with very little effort or fine tuning from the user.

To Remove the background from an image, follow the steps :

1. Open your Word document and select the picture background you want to remove.

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2. Then Navigate to "Picture Tools" tab and click "Format" > "Remove Background".

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3. The moment you click the "Remove Background" , automatically it trims the background.

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4. You can click one of the handles on the marquee lines and then drag the line so that it contains the portion of the picture that you wish to keep and excludes most of the areas you wish to remove.
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5. Under "Background Removal" tab, there are two options "Mark Areas to Keep", "Mark Areas to Remove". You may select any of these to customize the background removal process..

Remove a Picture Background in Office 2010

6. Then click the mark on the picture like this. Here we choose "Mark areas to keep".
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7. Also, you can select the mark and click "Delete Mark" to remove the mark that you added.

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8. After setting a number of Mark areas to delete and mark areas to keep. + shows area to keep while shows area to remove.

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9. You may click "Discard All Changes" if you don’t want to remove background and wish to revert back to original image. If you want to save these changes, click "Keep Changes" instead.

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10. Well, the picture whose background you have already removed will be like this. So the Office 2010 Cup has lost its background.

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This is how remove a picture background in Word 2010. No expensive & complex image editing software’s required, and yeah time to learn those software’s has also be trimmed. Here is another example where background from “Pictures bundled with Windows” is removed.

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This method can also be used in other Microsoft Office 2010 applications, such as Excel, PowerPoint etc to remove background from Images.

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