MS Word help?

Question

Does anyone know how to print the transparent effect using microsoft word? It looks fine in the print preview, but when I try to print it, the transparent areas come out white, which is not what I'm looking to do. Thanks in advance.

It is a combination of text and pictures. I have added shapes which I have made transparent in the middle, using a gradient fill, and the picture shows through. I do not have any trouble in the actual program. The problem occurs when I try to print it out. The inside of the shapes where the picture should show through comes out white. The picture underneath the shapes is not visible. I have tried it on two seperate printers attatched to two different computers, so I know it is not my printer or my computer. There must be some setting or patch that I need to change/get. I hope this answers your question.

Answer 1

Text? Picture? What are you trying to do? Need more information. I just inserted a picture, right-clicked for the "format picture" command, changed the fill, then selected transparent. Personally, I've not used this before and can't think of any reason why I would. Please explain.

Thank you for additional information. This is what I have just done and it printed on my $50 HP:

select and drag an autoshape
right-cl, format autoshape
cl the down-arrow next to color
chose a color
select “more colors”
cl in the box for “semi-transparent,” o.k.

right-cl on the shape
select order
choose “bring to the front”
drag over the image
print