In Word, you can give documents a background colour. It means that you change the default white to any other colour, or with a fill effect even. To do this, go to the Page Layout ribbon tab and choose Page Color. From there, you pick the options you want.

However, this method will make all of your pages have that colour settings. If you want to make just one single page in a colour in Word, you are out of luck. Luckily, there is an alternative available. This can be useful to for example give the first page in Word a background colour.

The alternative is to add a square shape and make it the background. Then, for that shape, you give the shape a background colour and extend it to the full page.

Inserting a shape in Word goes like this:

• Go to Insert
• Choose Shapes
• Choose a square to insert. Extend it to the full page and give it its colour properties as you wish.

• Creating a page border in Microsoft Word will depend on your version of Microsoft Office. For Office 365 and Office 2019, open a Word document and click the “Design” tab in the ribbon. If you have an older version of Office, click the “Layout” or “Page Layout” tab instead. From here, click the “Page Borders” button, in the.
• We've shared the tip of how to change the theme color, and also introduced how to change the picture color in Word. When editing a document, the default background page color is white, you could set a color for it to bring interest to your document, especially when there are a lot pages describing different things.

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Change the page background color in Word 2007 documents. Microsoft Word 2007 displays by default document with a 'transparent', or no-background setting: this means that documents will be printed without any background color information, letting the paper determine what the actual background color of the printed document will be.