Changing the text in a picture in Word

A picture in Word is one object. The words inside a screenshot, a scanned page or a downloaded graphic are pixels, not Word text. Word can resize, crop and wrap the picture, but it has no way to reach inside it.

Insert > Text Box > Draw Text Box. Place it over the old words, give it a fill color close to the background and no outline, and type the new text in a similar font. Group the text box with the picture so they move together.

This is quick and fine for a plain background and a standard font. It fails on photos, gradients, textured paper, angled text and anything with an outline or shadow: the patch is visible and the font does not match.

Edit the image outside Word, then insert the corrected version. For a screenshot or a scan where the text is baked in, Make It Say finds the text, you type the replacement, and the line is redrawn in the same font and on the same background. The output is a PNG you insert like any other picture, with nothing stacked on top.

If what you are trying to change is a scanned letter, form or certificate, the honest tools are OCR (to turn the scan into editable Word text, then reformat) or asking for the original file. Editing the pixels of official documents is refused by Make It Say on purpose.

If the text is already part of the pixels and you only need to change the words, Make It Say does that in one step: upload, type the new text, download. The font, color and angle come from the image itself, so there is nothing to match by hand. First edit free.