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Change the background colour of comment box in Word 2013 & 2010

September 21, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

We have already seen how to insert comments in Word 2013 & Word 2010. In this tutorial we will see how to change the background colour of the comment box in Word 2010 & Word 2010.

Click the Review menu and navigate to Tracking section in the Word 2010.

Click the down arrow available below the Tracking Changes menu option.

Select Change Tracking Options from the drop down list and this would display the following Track Changes Options window

In the Track Changes Options Window, navigate to Comments section and pick the colour of you choice from the drop down to the set the background colour. Now when insert a new comment in the Word document, the comment box will have the new background colour.

How to add background for document in Word 2011 for Mac

June 1, 2013 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

This tutorial is about the steps required to add background colour or picture to word document in Word 2011 for Mac.

Step 1: Launch the Word Application on Mac and click the Layout Option.

Step 2: In the Layout option, navigate to Page Background section and click the Colors option.

Step 3: The Color drop down will provide different option for changing colours, setting fill effects. The default page background is set to No Fill. If you are looking for other colours other than the theme colours or Standard Colours then click the More Colours option.

You can choose from Color Wheel, Color Sliders, Color Palettes, Image Palettes and Crayons.

Step 4: If you are interested set Patterns or select an image as background then click The Fill effects option.

You can go for Gradient, Texture, Pattern or set background image.

If you want to set background image for a paragraph instead whole document then select the paragraph and repeat the above steps.