Depends if you want it to print or not? Try Format Background Colour.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Reitanos" wrote in message
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Is it possible to apply shading to an entire document?
I'd like to have a single color throughout (so applying color to all
paragraphs will not work).
Placing a filled rectangle in the header and sizing it to cover the
whole page works, but there must be a better way that I'm missing.
Thanks!