Default background color in Word

[DuBojangles]

I know how to change the Window color for all of the programs, but how does
one go about changing it just for MS Word? I went so far as opening
Normal.dot and changing the background color there and then saving it;
however, even though everything else I do to Normal.dot (font type and size,
etc.) remains when starting a new blank document, the background color does
not carry over into the blank document. This, to me, is a flaw. I'm sure,
until Microsoft addresses this upon its next release, there is a way to go
into some file and edit a line that tells Windows, or the computer, what
color to display as Word's background. Or maybe the computer sees them as one
in the same; maybe there's no separating the two, Word's window color and
Windows window color?

 

[Graham Mayor]

I believe the option to print background colours was introduced with Word
2003 (tools > options > print > background colours and images). Note that
most printers will not print to the edge of the papoer so you will have a
white border around your page.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That assumes that DuBojangles wants to print the background color. I think
he/she just wants to change the "paper color" in Word. The only way to do
this is to change the window color in Windows.

 

[DuBojangles]

Thanks, to the both of you. And Suzanne, you are right, I just wanted to
change the paper color. Thank you.