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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / January 2004How to have a colored background for a Word document
Maybe what I want is impossible...I am using Word for our club's newsletter & want something other than a white background for every page. I understand the "background" option is for Web pages. However cannot believe the whole world is stuck with a white background if using Word! I tried "insert Picture" feature first to insert the background which I had saved in Paint as a JPEG application. I was then able to add my graphics, text & border on top of my textured, colored background. ONLY problem--I cannot get Word to continue on with a 2nd, 3rd, etc. page. The left hand margin guide affects the bottom edge of the colored background, moving it up or down. Any way to have a non-white background? Publisher allows me to do this but I get a white border all around the edge- -don't want that either. Thanks for your help! CFB What you want is not possible, because you cannot print to the edge of the page on the vast majority of printers. The printer drivers simply will not allow it. You could put a text box with a colour fill in the header for each page, but you would be still have the problem of not being able to print to the edge of the pages. Why not buy some coloured paper?  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > Maybe what I want is impossible...I am using Word for our > club's newsletter & want something other than a white [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thanks for your help! CFB Graham: Thanks for quick reply--we don't print out our newsletter--it's available to members on-line as a PDF document, thusly my desire as the editor to jazz it up a bit by having a textured background instead of white. Just like colored stationary--but as a Word document. Hmmmmm...seems Microsoft folks are so advanced that they'd have thought of something like this for Word users by now. Oh well.... The border problem does not arise for PDF as a pdf does not have this limitation. Setup the PDF driver as the default printer and you can fill the header with a text box with no border, a coloured fill and set behind text. This is exactly the same as a background. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > Graham: Thanks for quick reply--we don't print out our > newsletter--it's available to members on-line as a PDF [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > have thought of something like this for Word users by > now. Oh well.... They have finally heard our 'cries'. :-) As of Word 2003 under Tools/Options/Print there is an option to print "Background colors and images". SignaturePlease post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ > Hmmmmm...seems Microsoft folks are so advanced that they'd > have thought of something like this for Word users by > now. Oh well.... A background for a printed document is called a "watermark." Word 2002 makes it easy to insert these (Insert | Background | Printed Watermark). For previous versions, see Word's Help under "Create a watermark" or "HOW TO: Create a Watermark in Microsoft Word 2000" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211324 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Maybe what I want is impossible...I am using Word for our > club's newsletter & want something other than a white [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thanks for your help! CFB |
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