How to Change the Page Background Color in Microsoft Word

Learn how to change the page background color in Microsoft Word. Plus, learn how to print documents with their background color. We will also look at a workaround to add background colors to specific pages.

These steps apply to Word for Microsoft 365, Word 2021, Word 2019, Word 2016, and Word 2013.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 How to Change the Page Background Color
02:05 How to Print Documents with a Page Background Color
03:28 Workaround to Change the Page Background Color on Specific Pages

📝 Companion Blog Post/Transcript for this Video
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How to Change the Page Background Color in Microsoft Word

💻 Related Resources
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[UnderEyeShadow]

Useful, quick, smart as usual!! Thank you, Erin!!

[mimidickman]

So clear! You helped me so much! Thank you!!!

[qwhizzkid]

Another great video. Thank you for taking the time. So well explained.

[teejay]

Thanks again Erin 🙂 And thanks for helping me get a 96 in my first computer class ever (Intro to Computers).

[TRYtoHELPyou]

1:50 background color change, thanks! google led me here and to that ~time.

[wendelakilmer]

Thank you. But how can I change the color of the area OUTSIDE the document in print layout? To a soft blue for instance, to have a bit more contrast on the screen.

[bodegabreath]

Thanks for this. Just found this from a search I did. Have watched other vids., none of which helped. Yours was the only one to do so, although I have to say, it's decidedly cumbersome, MSW's fault, not yours. I had previously used Quark Xpress as a page-lout program where I could easily change the background on a formatted page color. Guess I. can't do that with MSW. Tried. Couldn't. Had a peek at your other offerings. Just subbed. Thank you.

[allyforbes]

I was using my word app on my Macbook Air (version 16.67) and it doesn't have a "file" tab in the bar and there wasn't an options tab in the built in Mac file tab or anywhere else I could see. So I logged into Word online instead, but came to find (after a bunch of hassle sharing my document with myself since they don't sync for some reason) that my border and background colors were gone and there is no "design" tab on the web version to be found. So disappointed and frustrated...any suggestions, please?

[MaddBadgerr]

How do I change the colour of the background surrounding/behind the page? Usually it's grey, but I had to reinstall the program and now that background is black, and I don't know how to change it.

[CesareVesdani]

It is possible to apply a page background color to the Outline and Normal views in Word 2021?

[twoscoops]

What if there is no "design" tab?

[TomemosJager]

Hi, good video, but I'm looking to change the background color of the window(behind the page).
That grey is killing my eyes

[RacherW]

I want to change to imagine, but when i did, the imagine is multipled, not full page

[GarryBurgess]

It doesn't work for me. I can find and do that command but it never works, and the page always stays white.

[steves]

THERE IS NOOOO Fill Effects in MS Word Mac anymore!