How Can I Replicate This Page in Office 2016?

[doctorduncan]

Help, please. I need to recreate the attached page with slight modifications to an MS Word document. My work machine is on Win10 and uses Office 2016. The person who created the page I want to replicate no longer works for us. So, I cannot ask him how he made it. I have moderate MS Word skills. I can type the words at the top of the page, but I don't know how to create the bottom part, with deep blue for the background and white plus medium blue for the foreground. Unfortunately, we don't have the file he used to make this either. I can create a rectangle shape below the title lines and give it a dark blue color. I don't know how to do the writing on top of that, and keep it looking basically the way it does in the older version.


Any suggestions? This is a bit past my Word knowledge. Thanks.


Duncan

[doctorduncan]

Fixed my misspelled tag

[Charles Kenyon]

That looks like it was designed in PowerPoint.

[gmayor]

It's almost certainly a two column borderless table with dark blue shading (RGB 23, 65, 105) and a mixture of blue (RGB 90, 149, 199) and white coloured text. The two cells in the bottom row are merged.

[wiganken]

I think you mean the two cells in the top row are merged, not bottom row?

The top row shading colour seems to have a 'textured pattern' to it. It is not a solid colour, so maybe not a Word table after all? Maybe Charles is right? I don't use Power Point so I don't know how it would be done in that app.

[kilroyscarnival]

Originally Posted by wiganken

I think you mean the two cells in the top row are merged, not bottom row?

I think he's referring to the fact that item 9 in that list is centered below the two columns.

It definitely has the look of something done on a classic PowerPoint template. You can see that it doesn't look like it was prepared to be a letter or something with the standard print margin limitations of Word; the background goes to the edges.

You can mock up something that looks like that in Word, but I can't quite see what the thing you snapshotted is. Is that a PDF, or a web page? You might try downloading the web page (right mouse click, SaveAs) and see if that background image comes by itself as a file.

If not, you'll use Insert Shape and put a rectangle over the top half, change the fill to something that looks like marble or crumpled paper (the standard fill textures I have in Word 365 aren't an exact match), then copy and paste the box and change the fill of the second box to the color blue that matches yours. From there, you might want to use text boxes for the various text portions. That way you can drag them around and not have to tab and space your way there.

I don't see that as a standard template in my Word or PowerPoint, but it might be a slightly older one. If you have PowerPoint, open and browse the templates. Also look at your (File/New) Word standard templates. I found a few for flyer backgrounds, but nothing that matches the business-like style that you show in the picture.

[doctorduncan]

Thanks, everyone. The PP direction was the best one. We finally found the PP file the original author used. This isn't a Word issue anymore. The whole video that this is part of looks like a Word document but this first bit is a separate PP slide.


I don't see a way to mark this as resolved or answered, but it is. Thanks.