MS Word Page Formatting #1

Application Software:
MS Word

PAGE BACKGROUND
FORMATTING

Objectives:

Format Page Background

Add, edit and remove Watermarks.
Add Page Borders
Change Page Colors

Watermark

Watermark is simply an image or text
that appears mainly behind the main
document.

watermark documents will normally
display the status of the document like
"confidential", or 'Draft“

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How to add a water mark?

Design – page background –
Watermark

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Select a default watermark
or
Select – Custom watermark
•No watermark

•Picture Watermark - browse through your image
files, or choose a picture

•Select Insert

•If you want the background image to show
with full color intensity, clear the Washout
check box.

•Text watermark - Select language, Type Text,
Choose a font, color and layout option.

Watermark

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Page Colors

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Design – page background – Page Color

Do any of the following:
•Select a color from the Theme Colors or Standard
Colors

•Select More Colors and then choose a color

•Select Fill Effects to add special effects, such as
gradients, patterns, textures, pictures.

Sample Page Colors

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Page Borders

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Design – page background – Page Borders

Page Borders

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• Design – page background – Page Borders

Make selections for how you want the border to look
•To adjust the distance between the border and
the edge of the page, select Options.

•Make your changes and select OK

Page Borders

Sample – Page Border

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In the new Word document do the following:

Change page color
Click the Design tab.
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Choose Page Color.

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Select the desired color.

Format Page Background

Apply a watermark – “Your name”
Apply a page color, using one of the techniques learnt
Add a page border to your document

Class Activity #2

Presentation Title

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Copy and paste the following paragraph
into a new Word document:

Visions of tiny vessels floating on the trade winds
with a belly full of cargo for the Americas filled my
head. I called my mother again and asked her if she
was okay. I told her about the storm clouds forming
on the edge of Africa. It looked like a smoke signal
from ancient ancestors. The image of a group of
people dancing energetically around a large fire
floated through my head. The drums were
deafening, as I watched the dancers lift an old
blanket across the fire, releasing giant puffs of
smoke into the air. Each puff of smoke slowly rose
upward, expanding into a giant dark cloud.