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# Background

Set the background colour or graphic.

You can specify the background for paragraphs, pages, headers, footers, text frames, tables, table cells, sections, and indexes.cells and pages.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Paragraph - Background tab

Choose Format - Character - Background tab

Choose Format - Page - Background tab

Choose Format - Frame and Object - Properties - Area tab

Choose Format - Page - Background tab

Choose Format - Page - Header - More button

Choose Format - Page - Footer - More button

Choose View - Styles - open context menu of an entry and choose Modify/New - Background tab

Choose Insert/Edit - Section - Background tab

Choose Format - Cells - Background tab

Defining Graphics or Colours in the Background of Pages (Watermark)

## As

Select the type of background that you want to apply.

## Using a Colour as a Background

### Colour Background

Click the color that you want to use as a background. To remove a background color, click No Fill.

Highlight Color

Background Colour

Applies the current highlight colour to the background of a text selection. If no text is selected, click the Highlighting icon, select the text that you want to highlight, and then click the Highlighting icon again. To change the highlight colour, click the arrow next to the Highlighting icon, and then click the colour that you want.

## Preview Field

Displays a preview of the current selection.

### For

Select the area that you want to apply the background color to. For example, when you define the background color for a table, you can choose to apply it to the table, the active cell, the row, or the column.

This option is only available when you edit the background of a table or a paragraph style.

## Using a Graphic as a Background

### File

Contains information about the graphic file.

### Display field

Shows the path for the graphic file.

### Link

Links to or embeds the graphic file in the current file.

### Preview

Displays or hides a preview of the selected graphic.

### Browse

Locate the graphic file that you want to use as a background, and then click Open.

### Type

Specify the way that you want to display the background graphic.

### Position

Select this option, and then click a location in the position grid.

### Area

Stretches the graphic to fill the entire background of the selected object.

### Tile

Repeats the graphic so that it covers the entire background of the selected object.

## Preview Field

Displays a preview of the current selection.