Windows 10: Page background colour in all office packages

Until changing over from Window 7, I was able to change the background page colour in all allication, by changing this in personalising settings.

I am dyslexic and having the white page is difficult. Since being at school this have been teh first thing change with each new computer update, however, this is no longer possible.

I copied the background filed from window 7 and exported it into the new comptuer running windows 10. This words intermitently colouring outlook pages and all office applications automatically as purple running office 2016. However, with offcie 365 on my work office PC this does not work.


It is such a key simple feature that I don't understand why is no longer possible. For people with learning disabilities or sight imparments it is a vital tool. Chaing all the setting options that are now only given does not provide what is necessary.


My work is many computer based and to be able to have this feature again would be invaluble.

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Cannot change page background colour from the toolbar

Office 2007 loaded ok. However in using word the page background is black and the text is white when trying to change page colour to white from the toolbar nothing happens it will not change to any other colour?

I have tried loading Works and the word program in that is the same 'Black background and white text impossible to change?
Office 2007 installed on another computer running windows 10 and works fine?

 

How do I change the white ‘paper’ background colour?

Hi
You can change the background colour of any window implemented by file explorer using Qttabbar (free) by Quizo.
Search the forum for Qttabbar for examples.

For a number of other backgrounds,a well-know registry change is possible, else use the free SMACC tool by member superfly (Google SMACC).

Programs like Office, Firefox etc as you suggest often have their own options for this.

These may help:
How to Change the Screen Background and Theme in Office 2016 - dummies
Change Background of Office 2016 for Windows

(I searched for
change background colour Office 2016
)
(P.S. 'dummies' is just an unfortunate brand name and a top result! )

 

How do I change the white ‘paper’ background colour?

Edwin #4 - That works so thank you. Also it does not print out the colour which is what I was after.

I should have said in my original post that I was primarily concerned with Word and Excel as these are the apps I use most. I have changed the 'Window' colour in Windows itself using the registry editor (Regedit) and this worked for Excel but not for Word so your tip is very useful.

All I have to do now is get the coloured page into the Word template so that Word always open with that colour of page.

Thanks to everyone for your input.

As per Edwin's post #4 I changed the background colour in the Word template normal.dotm (located in Documents\Custom Office Templates) and it seemed to save OK but when I launch Word the page colour reverts to dazzling white again. *Sad .

Excel sheet colour is OK but still looking for a solution for Word page colour.

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Discovered that if I save-as another .dotm template (Example: GreySheet.dotm) then the new colour is saved OK. It is just the normal.dotm template that prevents page colour change.





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Found a workaround: -

I have created a shortcut on my desk top that points to the GreySheet.dotm template which opens with the customised page colour.

I think I can call this 'Solved' now.