Re: How to set page color evenly for different page?
- From: "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" <robert.franz@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:48:48 +0200
Hello Richard
Richard Lewis Haggard wrote:
I'm trying to layout a magazine for a college journal and am having trouble with setting page backgrounds.
just curious here: the journal is printed from the Word file, or from a PDF created from Word, or is it distributed in electronic form? Frankly, if you go to print with colors from Word, you might run into a couple of problems apart from coloring pages individually ...
Here's what the editor wants to do: The first page, the cover page, is going to have a black background. All succeeding pages have the normal background color. I got the first page all black but things fall apart when I get to the second page. I tried Insert->Break->Section Break/Next Page and then, on the second page, did Format->Background->No Fill. That results in the bottom of the first page turning white which, of course, is not quite the desired effect.
How can I make the first page be completely black and all succeeding pages' background the normal no fill background color? Please keep in mind that I'm a programmer, not a person who has the slightest clue as to how to work with Word so it would be greatly appreciated if you could couch your answers in a fashion that a rather dim 3 year old will understand. Thanks!
It's debatable whether a programmer is better or worse equipped to work with Word compared to the average user. :-)
Anyway, the background feature you're using has probably been created with HTML export in mind. That means there is only one color per file (an HTML page has -- at most -- one background color as well). [IIRC and maybe depending on versions of Word, it wouldn't even print ...]
That means what you want to do is separate the file with in sections (you have that already), and then insert, say, a page-filling borderless rectangular Autoform, anchored to each individual header or footer of your sections. And color it as you like it.
Once you start working with sections, the following article might shed some light:
Working with Sections (by Dave Rado)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm
And there is a great deal more useful articles where this one comes from. You should be used to reading documentation, so there you go ... ;-)
HTH
Robert
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