At last, you can format the text box as no fill and no outline from the Shape Fill and Shape Outline separately under the Drawing Tools - Format tab, see screenshot:ħ. After entering the text into the text box, hold Ctrl key to select both the text box and picture, then, right click the picture, choose Group > Group to group these two objects, see screenshot:Ħ.
And then, type the text into the text box as following screenshot shown:ĥ. Click Fill With Placeholder Text in the Quick Actions section of. Then, click OK button, and now, please click Insert > Text Box > Draw Text Box, and then draw a text box on the picture.Ĥ. Add placeholder text You can select the frame with the Selection tool or place an insertion point inside it with the Type tool. In the Layout dialog box, under the Text Wrapping tab, select Square option in the Wrapping style section, see screenshot:ģ. Now I want to create some user controls(WPF) and insert data to a Word document at the specific places like that: I will have three WPF TextBox 'es corresponding to placeHolder and a button which will read data from TextBox 'es and insert text into placeholders. Select the picture where you want to insert text, then, right click, and choose Size and Position from the context menu, see screenshot:Ģ.
You can insert a text box into the Word file, and then drag the text box on the picture, please do as this:ġ. Insert text on picture in Word document by using Text box This article, I will talk about a handy trick for inserting text on picture in Word file.
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How to insert text on picture in Word document?īy default, we can not type text into the picture in a Word document directly.