Workarounds for a curious omission in Microsoft Word for Mac.

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Background Texture. Ribbon Banner Christmas. Background Scrapbook. Book Old Read Light. The Word, Excel or PowerPoint ‘Text Box’ feature is a way to have ‘pull quotes’ or sidebar text in your documents however the default background for the box isn’t always what you want. Inserting a Text Box is easy from Insert Text Box then choose from a style or draw the box onto your document.

Eileen B writes:

“I designed an awesome certificate, but the background won’t print. I’m working on a Mac.”

Eileen has been using the tips and supplied certificates in our popular ebook “Creative Certificates with Word“. This includes sample certificates like this one, made in Word with a full page background.

In Word for Windows there’s a print option (normally turned off) that allows the background in a Word document to be printed.

In Word 2003 and before it’s under Tools | Options | Print.

In Word 2007 and Word 2010 go to Word Options | Display | Print background colors and images ( we don’t know why a series of print options are under the Display heading)

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But there’s no such option in Word for Mac – you can open a document with a background and even set a background but can’t print it. Yet another annoying difference between the Windows and Mac versions of Office.

Workarounds

The alleged Microsoft workaround has been copied in various forums but we think there’s other options.

The ‘official’ workaround goes like this:

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” What you’re looking for is View> Header & Footer. Insert the higher res image there using Insert> Picture> From File. Set the Text Wrapping (Format>Picture> Layout) to Behind Text & use the features of the Advanced button to set the position of the image Relative To: Page horizontally & vertically. When you return to the text layer the image may appear to be dimmer than you expect but it will print as it should “

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This only works in limited circumstances and can get messy to change.

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If you have access to Word for Windows (either on another computer or a virtual machine on your Mac) there are alternatives.

• Send the document to a Word for Windows machine and print from there. The easiest option on an office network.
  
• Send the document to someone with Word for Windows. Open the document in Winword and either ‘print’ or ‘Save As’ the document to a PDF file with the background printing set on. Check the PDF to make sure it has the background.  Email the PDF back to you for printing from your computer. The Mac OS comes with PDF preview support in-built though you get more options if you install the free Adobe PDF viewer as well.
  
  
  
  • Office 2007 SP2 now has save to PDF features in-built while there are plenty of free tools to ‘Print’ to a PDF file for other software.

Background Textures For Photoshop

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While choosing texture fillsfor your text, you need not limit yourself to the default textures that PowerPoint offers. Third party custom texturesare always an option, including our own Scribble CustomTextures that provide your text with an organic look, as if someone scribbled lines with a pencil to fill them! You canalso try some more custom textures from our Ppted Background TextureCollection. Let us explore how to use these custom textures as fills for your text. Follow these steps to learn morein PowerPoint 2011 for Mac:

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1. Select the textto which you want to apply a custom texture fill. Alternatively, if you just want to follow this tutorial step-by-step,insert a text box on a blank slideand type some text in it. Also, changethe text font to something 'blockier', such as Arial Black (see Figure 1).Select the text, or the entiretext box to bring up the Format tab on theRibbon as shown highlightedin red within Figure 1.
2. 
   Figure 1: Format tab of the Ribbon
Note: The Format tab is a Contextual tab. These tabs are special tabs inthe Ribbon that are not visible all the time. Theyonly make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options withinthese tabs.
2. Within the Format tab, locate the Text Styles group. Then click the down-arrowwithin the Fill button that you can see highlighted in red withinFigure 2.
3. 
   Figure 2: Fill button within Text Styles group
3. This opens the Fill drop-down gallery for text, as shown in Figure 3. In thisdrop-down gallery, select the Text Effects option, shown highlighted in red withinFigure 3.
4. 
   Figure 3: Text Effects option to be selected
5. Alternatively you can directly right-click (or Ctrl+click) the selected textbox, and from the contextual menu, select the Format Text option as shown in Figure 4.
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   Figure 4:Format Text option to be selected
4. Either way, you will summon the Format Text dialog box as shown inFigure 5. Make sure that Text Fill option is selected within the sidebar (highlightedin red within Figure 5).
5. 
   Figure 5: Format Text dialog box
5. You have already learned about how to select PowerPoint's default textures for your text fill in ourTexture Fill for Text inPowerPoint 2011 for Mac tutorial. Now, to select a Custom Texture for your text fill, select the Picture orTexture tab (highlighted in blue within Figure 5). Within this tab,click the Choose Picture button (highlighted in green withinFigure 5).
6. This opens the Choose a Picture dialog box as shown in Figure 6. Navigate tothe folder where you have saved textures to be used as text fills, and select a texture.
7. 
   Figure 6: Choose a Picture dialog box
7. After selecting the texture in the Choose a Picture dialog box, click theInsert button (highlighted in red within Figure 6).
8. This will take you back to the Format Text dialog box where you can now see the selectedtexture in the preview area, as shown in Figure 7. Since the texture you have selected is actually a picture,make sure to select the Tile check-box as shown in Figure 7 (highlighted inred) to get the texture effect.
9. 
   Figure 7:Tile check-box selected within the Format Text dialog box
9. Optionally, you can set the transparency value of the texture fill using the Transparencyslider, or by entering the transparency value in digits within the box next to the slider. Both of these have beenhighlighted in green within Figure 7, above.
10. Then, click the OK button (highlighted in blue withinFigure 7, above) to apply the custom texture as a text fill. Figure 8 shows the selectedtext with a custom texture fill applied. Compare Figures 1 and 8 to see the difference.
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    Figure 8: Text with a custom texture fill applied
11. Remember to save your presentation often.