Thanks very much for the reply.

Yes, the page color was part of a longer macro, but when I read your reply I tried creating a macro to just change the page color ... and it failed. Here is the macro;

ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.Visible = msoTrue
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 130)
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.Solid

Could you please post what your test macro contains?

Karen