{"id":8445,"date":"2010-02-10T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T07:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2010-02-10T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T07:41:53","slug":"add-or-change-background-color-in-microsoft-word-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/add-or-change-background-color-in-microsoft-word-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Add or Change Background Color in Microsoft Word Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/download-microsoft-office-professional-plus-2010\/\">Microsoft Word<\/a> is one of the best applications available for the PC Users, which allows you to edit, customize and make your daily work easily handled. By default the background of your MS Word created documents are White in color and it would be great if you could change the background colours. In order to get started first open a existing doc file or else create a new doc file.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Page Layout option in the Top Menu and then select page Background option.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8446\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Page-Layout-Background.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Page-Layout-Background.png?resize=451%2C115\" alt=\"Page Layout Background\" title=\"Page Layout Background\" width=\"451\" height=\"115\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Page-Layout-Background.png?w=451&amp;ssl=1 451w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Page-Layout-Background.png?resize=300%2C76&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Page-Layout-Background.png?resize=150%2C38&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page Layout Background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under the Page Color option you can choose from the color selection option listed under &#8216;Theme Colors&#8217; or &#8216;Standard Colors&#8217; and the moment you mouse hover the different colors you will be able to instantly view the different color effects,, while clicking on any would apply the same as your new background color. Selecting the option of &#8216;Fill Effects&#8217; would allow you to change the background color&#8217;s texture, gradient, pattern etc. The colors added using this option would allow you to just see them on the document but it wont be visible when you go for a printout of the same document file.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8447\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Word-Document-Page-Color.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Word-Document-Page-Color.png?resize=399%2C367\" alt=\"Word Document Page Color\" title=\"Word Document Page Color\" width=\"399\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Word-Document-Page-Color.png?w=399&amp;ssl=1 399w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Word-Document-Page-Color.png?resize=300%2C275&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Word-Document-Page-Color.png?resize=150%2C137&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Word Document Page Color<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In order to make sure that the formatting you have implemented on your Document in the form of different colors, to be shown on the printed file, you need to do more settings changed. Go to the Printing Options and here you need to change the options so that the selected background color would be included in the printed document. Go to Tools > Options > Print tab. Next under the section of &#8216;Include with the Document&#8217;, enable the option which says &#8216;Print Background Color &#038; Images&#8217; which will fix everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Word is one of the best applications available for the PC Users, which allows you to edit, customize and make your daily work easily handled. By default the background of your MS Word created documents are White in color and it would be great if you could change the background colours. In order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Page-Layout-Background.png?fit=451%2C115&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7195,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/microsoft-office-2010-photo-editing-tools\/","url_meta":{"origin":8445,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft Office 2010 offers Easy Photo Editing Tools","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"November 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The new Microsoft Office 2010 Word package comes with a Superb Picture Tools section which would eradicate all the 3rd party Image Editing softwares. 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