Hold down the mouse button as you drag to 'surround' the graphic, but without surrounding the text box. Once the arrow is active, click the mouse somewhere outside the bounds of the text box. If the graphic is floating over the text, not inline, and it is markedly smaller than the text box that obscures it, you can click the Select Objects arrow on the Drawing toolbar and draw a selection box that encompasses the graphic but not the text box. When you are done, again right-click on the text box, choose Order, and Bring to Front (or Bring In Front of Text). (If the graphic is inline with the text, you will need to choose Send Behind Text.) You can then click on the graphic to select it.

Right-click the text box, then choose Order, and Send to Back. The first way to select the graphic is to simply select the text box and send it behind the graphic. The answers depend, in part, on how the graphic was inserted in your document. There are several things you can do to select the 'hidden' graphic. You then cannot directly click on the graphic to select it. For instance, if you place a graphic in your document and then place a text box over the top of it, the graphic is essentially 'hidden' by the text box, even if you can see the graphic through the text box. This can lead to problems in easily selecting objects, however. You can overlay graphics and text boxes in a document.

How to put image behind text word