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.

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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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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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DuBojangles wrote:
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?