The exceptions to this are 3D models and shapes, which are placed in front of text by default. When you insert most of those illustration types-pictures, icons, SmartArt, charts, and screenshots-that object is placed in line with your text by default.
If you haven’t already inserted your object into your Word document, go ahead and do that now. RELATED: How to Wrap Text Around Pictures and Other Illustrations in Microsoft Word To get text to appear on top of an illustration, you change the text wrapping option on the illustration so that it appears behind your text. We’re going to be using a simple picture in our example here, but the same technique applies to any of these illustration types.
Placing an Illustration Behind Regular TextĪn illustration in Word refers to any of the objects you can insert from the “Illustrations” group on Word’s “Insert” tab.
