[Jay Freedman]

Sorry, the background color setting always applies to the entire document.

Considering how much color ink costs, it would probably be worth buying
colored paper and loading it into the printer in the proper sequence, or
printing the pages by background color in several passes.

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wrote:
Does anyone know how (if possible) to use several different background
colors within a single Word 2003 document?

I know that I can go to "Format" and "Background" to select a color
for the background, but I'd like to apply several different color
backgrounds in a single document.

For example, I'd like page 1 to be white, pages 2-6 to be yellow,
pages 7-10 to be green, etc.

I know I can select the text and use "Format" and "Borders and
Shading" to shade the text on the various pages in different colors,
but it doesn't look as nice as using the background.

If anyone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate the help!

Thanks.