Open the Word application to a blank document. Click the "Insert" tab to view the graphic tools Picture, Clip Art, Shapes, Text Box and WordArt. Click the "Shapes" button and select "New Drawing ...

Change Word Document Background Color Click on the Design tab of your current Word document. Then click on Page Color and select the color you want.

To add color to a document’s background, you’ll work from the Design tab, as follows. Click Page Color in the Page Background group. Choose a color from the gallery (palette) as shown in Figure A.

Liven up a Word document by adding a colorful border. With Word's auto-formatted borders, you won't have to create lines or adjust anything to fit the page's margins, as it's all done for you.

You want to modify your document with Colors, Fonts, Titles, watermarks, and more, but you realize there’s no Design tab in Word. This situation can be both confusing and frustrating, especially ...

in your Word document and would like to scatter three stars across the sky. You have a picture of a yellow star that you use, but the star is drawn against a red background.