I recently downloaded and installed Office 2011 and I was wondering if anybody knew of a way to change the background color from grey to anything you want. In 2008, there was a file in the Contents-->Resources folder called 'Page Layout View Background Rest' that you could replace with any image and the background would change (by 'background', I mean the actual grey color on each side of the word document, not the background of the document itself). Below is my Word 2008 appearance, which I would very much like to replicate for 2011. Just wondering if we ever got an answer to this question. I'm a writer and editor that just switched to Mac, and thus far I'm loving every second of it except for trying to read documents in Print Layout View in Office 2011.
If you locate the file and move it to the desktop, start Word, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit Microsoft Word, and restore the file to its original location. Then, go to the next step. If the problem seems to be resolved, you can move the com.microsoft.Word.plist file to the trash. 'Permission to the document you are attempting to replace is currently restricted. If you want to save this file, please use another name' I have also attached a screen print. This is Happening on Two MAC Books and have the Office 2011 updates applied.
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That gray is just hard as heck on the eyes. I want to switch it back to something like the cool blue of the Windows version. I see there's a drop-down list to change the background in Full Screen (which, by the way is a huge improvement over the Windows version of Office I was using), and I see a place where it looks like you can manage add-ons and plugins for Word and Office, but I don't see anything that will let you change this color. Are there any plugins that will do it? For reading and editing I use mostly Full Screen, but I also spend a lot of time manipulating layout and document components to see what formatting changes will look like on the page and that lifeless gray on an LED backlit screen with black and white text in front of it feels like scraping my eyes over razor blades. Just wondering if we ever got an answer to this question.
I'm a writer and editor that just switched to Mac, and thus far I'm loving every second of it except for trying to read documents in Print Layout View in Office 2011. That gray is just hard as heck on the eyes.
I want to switch it back to something like the cool blue of the Windows version. I see there's a drop-down list to change the background in Full Screen (which, by the way is a huge improvement over the Windows version of Office I was using), and I see a place where it looks like you can manage add-ons and plugins for Word and Office, but I don't see anything that will let you change this color. Are there any plugins that will do it? For reading and editing I use mostly Full Screen, but I also spend a lot of time manipulating layout and document components to see what formatting changes will look like on the page and that lifeless gray on an LED backlit screen with black and white text in front of it feels like scraping my eyes over razor blades. @Andrew K.: Here is what you need to do to change the background in Word 2008: Go to Microsoft Word.app right click and choose 'show package contents' click 'contents' and then 'resources' Now, the two relevant files are there: 1. Page Layout View Background Rest 2. Page Layout View Background Top Change the contents of these files with images you choose.
(if they do not work, pay attention to the pixel size of the original files and adjust your chosen images accordingly [using e.g. That's it for 2008. ---- But for Word 2011: I have tried a lot to find the relevant files to change the background, but to no avail.