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Old 05-06-2015, 07:23 AM
bwv565 bwv565 is offline Cannot remove Page Background color from doc Windows 7 64bit Cannot remove Page Background color from doc Office 2013
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Someone provided me with a Word doc that has some horrible orange color for the page background. I need to edit the document, and want to remove the background color. I have opened the document, gone to Design > Page Color and selected No Color. Background does not change. Also checked Themes, no themes have been applied. I don't have access to the original writer of the document so I need to figure out how to do this. I also tried copying text of the document (via Select All > Copy) and pasting into a new document, however the page formatting came along with it.

Help!

Thanks. BTW I am using Word 2013 but most likely the doc was created in an earlier version (probably either Mac 2011 or Word 2010 in Windows).
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Old 05-06-2015, 08:44 AM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Cannot remove Page Background color from doc Windows 7 64bit Cannot remove Page Background color from doc Office 2013
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Let's try this:
Open the header and footer (Insert/Header/Edit header [bottom of drop down], or Alt+V,H), select all, delete. If there is an oversize color image creating the issue, that should do it.

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Old 05-06-2015, 08:46 AM
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Let's try this:
Open the header and footer (Insert/Header/Edit header [bottom of drop down], or Alt+V,H), select all, delete. If there is an oversize color image creating the issue, that should do it.

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You are brilliant and I owe you big time.

That did the trick, and I would NEVER have figured that out on my own. Should be included in the Word online help.

Thank you so much!

EDIT: Do you have any idea WHY someone would have done it this way instead of applying a Page Background color? Seems so counter-intuitive. (I'm a WordPerfect guy so this type of stuff in Word drives me crazy. )
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Old 05-06-2015, 08:50 AM
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Glad I could help. Word requires being something of a detective, and a good detective figures out how the troublemaker thinks. Word doesn't think, but it does behave according to preset rules, and in this case experience is a good teacher.

Enjoy your day.
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