how to get this background in microsoft word?

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<p>I often see people’s background like this on Microsoft word.
<a href=“http://www.baycongroup.com/images/01011window.gif[/url]”>http://www.baycongroup.com/images/01011window.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I currently have the 2003 one, and it has a white background like this.</p>

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<p>How do I customize it so it can be like the one listed on the first link. </p>

<p>Thanks for your time.</p>

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<p>Hmm. My MS Word looks like the first link. I have no idea how to change it, though.</p>

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<p>you can’ chance the interface. i believe the first one is microsoft office professional/business. the second one is the one most people have (microsoft office home edition). no way to change it. You’d have to get anew version of microsoft office.</p>

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<p>ah :(</p>

<p>thanks.</p>

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<p>Go to Tools>Customize>Options. Click “Show Standard and Formatting toolbars on two rows” and “Always show full menus”. </p>

<p>On Toolbars tab, make sure you’ve clicked “Standard” and “Formatting”.</p>

<p>Go to View and make sure you’re seeing Page Layout.</p>

<p>That should get you what you want.</p>

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<p>You have the “Help” feature turned on in your first sample (on the right side of your document). Turn it off (click on the “x”). Your document should look like your second sample.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I mis-read your message. You want the Word help function turned on.</p>

<p>Go to the tool bar and click on Help and then click on the first option or as the menu shows, just press F1.</p>

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<p>None of the attempts i tried, worked. </p>

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<p>I’m using MS Word 2003. Start up Word and press F1. That displays the Word Help Wizard on the right side of your document.</p>

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<p>That thing is useless. Whoever said that they’re different versions is right. You can’t change the color without upgrading to some other edition of word.</p>

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<p>^You’re right.</p>

<p>Michuncle…i don’t want the word help wizard, you misread my message twice.</p>

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<p>Your post states the following:</p>

<p>“I often see people’s background like this on Microsoft word.
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<p>This GIF file shows Word open with the “Print Layout View” enabled and with the Help Wizard open. The Print Layout View (the space where you write is white) is in the foreground. What little of the background that shows is gray.</p>

<p>“I currently have the 2003 one, and it has a white background like this.</p>

<p><a href=“http://i20.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/b225/pm1209911/p.jpg”[/url]”>http://i20.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/b225/pm1209911/p.jpg&#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This JPG file shows Word open with the “Print Layout View” enabled. The “background” is gray. The Print layout view in the foreground is white. The Help Wizard is off.</p>

<p>Which layout do you want?</p>

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<p>I have 2003 as well, and I have the first layout (buttons on two lines and Page Layout), but with the Help off. I got that layout by using the steps I outlined above. If you’ve tried that, and put Help on, then you’ve got a different problem with Word.</p>

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<p>Maybe he’s talking about how the skin in the first one is blue, and the skin in the second one is white?</p>

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<p>^yes… that’s exactly what i’m talking about…</p>

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<p>If you want the default blue color in Word’s tool bar, do the following:</p>

<p>• At your desktop screen, right click your mouse and select “properties” from the dialog box
• A dialog box pops up called “Display Properties”
• Click on “Appearance”
• Under “Color Scheme”, click on the down arrow and select “Default (blue)”
• Click on the “apply” button”
• Start up Word and your tool bar should be “blue”</p>

<p>If you want the Word tool bar to appear as two lines, move your mouse pointer to the very end of the tool bar (past the “A”), there’s a dark blue box with a horizontal colon symbol. Click on that symbol and a dialog box appears with an option to divide the tool bar into two lines.</p>

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<p>Thank you!!! it worked.</p>

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<p>what did you have it on before? media center edition?</p>

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<p>yep, i had that instead of the reg. windows xp.</p>