Hi everyone,
I’m making flyers for an event in Microsoft Word (2000) and I thought it would look nice to have a background behind the text instead of just white paper. So I went to Format, then Theme, then chose one, and it looks great on the monitor but when I go to print it’s still just the regular white paper. I’ve looked around for printing options; I thought maybe you had to choose “print background” or something but haven’t had any luck. Any thoughts??
Themes are only for viewing electronically - in the Word doc, on the Web, or as an email. They aren’t supposed to print. The Background function under Format works the same way - it’s not designed for printed documents. If you want a color or textured background that prints, what I normally do is to make a big box (just about the same size as the paper), fill it with whatever color or texture you want, and send it behind the text. When you print, the texture will print out. (But if all you want is a texture or colored background, it’s much easier to buy the paper itself rather than have the printer print it.)
Or, you can do a theme in PowerPoint, which WILL print out.
Or, make a template in Word with whatever design and background you choose, group any needed objects together, and paste it onto every page (in a text box, in a header, free-floating, etc.)
Themes are for viewed documents. I.e. it doesn’t print them, MS Word can help design web pages and I believe also is compatible with Access and I know for sure e-mail, which is what themes are designed for.
You can sort of make your own by doing the following:
Click File
Then Page Setup
Then Layout
The click borders
There’s all sorts of colors and what not to play with. Good Luck.
Stuffy
Watermark. Go to the help, type in “watermark,” and follow the destructions.
Like UncleBeer said. Or, for anything you want to print on every page, go to the View menu, choose Headers and Footers, and just ignore the little boxes that turn up for you to type headers and footers in. You can put anything you like anyWHERE you like on the Header/Footer view, then close the view and go back to your “main” document. Take a clipart and extend it over the whole page if you want (just take into consideration the “printer crops” - i.e. the distance from the edge of the paper that the printer leaves white.)