What am I doing wrong? I have a neat gold background color on the MS word 2003 document I am editing. When I go to print to the color laser or print the page as PDF the gold fill background color vanishes and it reverts to black text on a white background , although the jpg logo graphic I have at the top prints and converts fine.
Why won’t the background colors stick when being printed or converted?
I don’t know why, but it’s normal. The “background” function is only meant to be viewed on screen.
If you want to make a background, you can add an object that covers the entire page, fill it with the color, and then order it to the back.
Dude - slow down!!
I vaguely remember there’s something odd about backgrounds (inserted via Format, Background) in Word, but I don’t remember what it is. If I use a background, I always insert the background into the document header.
It might be a file format your printer doesn’t like or Word doesn’t like. See if the Word MVPs have the answer you need.
astro,
To enable printing background colors, try this:
On the Main Menu, click Tools–>Options
Click on the Print tab.
Click the “Background colors and images” checkbox
Click the “OK” button
It annoyed me to no end until I stumbled upon this option when I was looking for something else.
That worked. Thanks!
No problemo.