WD98: Online Layout View Background Color Won't Print (180336)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
This article was previously published under Q180336

SYMPTOMS

The colored background appears in online layout view, but is not printed or displaed in page layout view or print preview.

CAUSE

Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition provides a new document viewing option called online layout view. This view optimizes the layout to make reading the text easier. To do this, Word increases the text size and wraps the text to fit inside the current window configuration. This view is designed primarily to view HTML or Web style documents that support background colors and textures. The changes made to the document to enhance readability affect the display of the document only. The document is displayed with the colors and textures only when online layout view is selected.

WORKAROUND

If you want to print a colored background in a document, you can place the color in the drawing layer of the document.

Use the following steps to place a colored rectangle beneath your text:

  1. Open the document in Word.
  2. On the View menu, click Header And Footer.
  3. On the View menu, click Zoom. Select Whole Page, and then click OK.
  4. On the View menu, click Toolbars, and then click Drawing.
  5. On the Drawing toolbar, click the Rectangle button (the seventh button on the drawing toolbar). Using the mouse, draw a box the entire size of the page.
  6. On the Format menu, click AutoShape. On the Colors and Lines tab, select a Fill Color, then, under Line Color, select No Line. On the Wrapping tab, under Wrapping Style select None. Then click OK.
  7. Right-click the document page. On the shortcut menu, under Order, click Send Behind Text.
  8. If you want to add headers and footers to the document, you can do so. Otherwise, click the Close button on the Header And Footer toolbar.
You should now have a printable colored background that appears in page layout and print preview.

NOTE: Very few printers will allow text or graphics to print all the way to the edge of the page. For solid color on the whole page, you will need to use colored paper.

MORE INFORMATION

To make a document more visually appealing online, you can add background colors and textures to it. You can see these backgrounds only when in the online layout view.

To add a background color for online display, click Background on the Format menu, and then click the desired color.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/4/2002
Keywords:kbprb KB180336
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