Page Color, PAGE BORDERS

Page Color
To add a splash of excitement to your document, change the background or color of the page with the Page Color button.

In Word 2010, you can easily change the appearance of the page colour. You can also choose to apply various fill effects, including Gradient, Texture, Pattern and Picture. The default colour options depend on the themes and colours selected for the document.

If you would like to change the colour of the page, you can use this tool to do it. When you change the page colour, there are some other interesting things can do, like two colours mixing, patterns, textures and pictures as well.

How to change colour of the page with two custom colors gradient?
Select Design Menu =>
Click Page Color Tool =>
Click Fill Effects =>
Select Gradient Tab =>
Select Two Colors option and Select Color 1(Red) and Color 2(Green) and then Select one of the shading style =>
Click OK.

For more understanding, look at the screenshot please:

Page Border
Microsoft Word gives you hundreds of page border options that allows you to surround a page with a clean or fancy border. Borders can add interest and emphasis to various parts of your document or email message. You can add borders to pages, text, tables and table cells, graphic objects, and pictures.

When you are headed into the page-border dialog box, you can see there by default, the borders are applied to the whole document, which means every page has the same border. Clicking the down arrow on Apply to gives you the option to select the first page only, selected page, all pages but the first page, and other options.

A border lines focuses and adds a stylish touch to your document. You can create a border using a variety of line styles, widths and colors or choose an art border with a fun theme.

How to choose a page border with blue colour and 3-D line only for first page?
Select Design Menu =>
Click Page Borders Tool =>
Select 3-D in Setting section =>
Select a line style in the Style combo box and blue colour in the Color box =>
Select This section – First page only in the Apply to box =>
Click OK.

For more understanding, look at the screenshot please: