Background Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Returns a Shape object that represents the background image for the specified document. Read-only.

Note  Backgrounds are visible only in web layout view.

Example

This example sets the background color for web layout view to light gray for the active window.

ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView
With ActiveDocument.Background.Fill
    .Visible = True
    .ForeColor.RGB = RGB(192, 192, 192)
End With
		

This example sets the background bitmap image of web layout view to Bubbles.bmp.

ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.UserPicture _
    PictureFile:="C:\Windows\Bubbles.bmp"