The more contrast, the more depth, which improves readability. It also adds to the layers of separation, as shown in the illustration in Figure B. In that regard, contrast is usually the most important factor: the higher the contrast, the more legible the text. Your main consideration should be legibility. Color-wise, there are several attributes, hue, chroma, and so on. There’s a lot to consider when introducing color into a document.
Choose No Color to remove a colored background.Īlthough simple, you could create some ghastly backgrounds. You can click More Colors to fine-tune a gallery color.
I’m using Office 365 Word (desktop) on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use older versions. I’ll share only the mechanical process how you implement the feature is up to you. Keep in mind that adding a background color or picture to a document is much easier than designing a visually effective document.
Both are easy to accomplish, technically speaking, and in this article, I’ll show you how to do both. For instance, you might want to change the background’s color or even use a picture as the document’s background. However, when a document requires more, Word offers many visual possibilities. That’s the way it should be though because most documents don’t require special graphics and colors. Most documents are rather boring–the same black text on a white background. This article was first published in December 2011 and was updated in March 2019. In the following tutorial, Susan Harkins explains the process when using Word 2010. However, it is a quick and easy way to add a snazzy cover page to any report or document.Editor’s note: In the video, Brandon Vigliarolo uses Microsoft Office 365 and walks through the steps of adding colors or images to the background of your Word documents. There is a good chance you'll need to adjust whatever cover page you add in this manner, or at least make sure it contains all the elements you want included. Word inserts the cover page at the beginning of your document, inserting the page break automatically, as described above. To use one of these pre-defined cover pages, simply click on the design you want. Word will display the gallery of various cover pages you can add to your document. From the drop-down menu, select Cover Page. If you are using Word 2013 or a later version, click the Pages tool at the far left of the ribbon in the Insert tab. Word displays a gallery of various cover pages you could add to your current document. If you are using Word 2007 or Word 2010, all you need to do is display the Insert tab of the ribbon and click the Cover Page tool at the very left of the ribbon. There is another way you can create a cover page, and it works great if you are in a hurry. (If you change the page layout, make sure you only apply the changes to the section you used for your cover page.) You can even change headers, footers, and page margins. Format the text in your cover page as you desire.Click on Next Page found in the Section Breaks category.In the Layout tab of the ribbon, click on the Breaks drop down list control.Position the insertion point at the beginning of the report, but after the cover page information.Don't worry about formatting yet just enter the text. At the beginning of your document, enter the information you want for your cover page.This is done by making the cover page one section and the rest of the report another section. You can use this approach in Word, but you can also format a cover page as part of the document containing the report. In some word processors, this would be done as a separate file. If you are writing a report, you will probably want to create a cover page.