Background colors and images will not print in Word 2007

It is so annoying when you have worked really hard on a document, but when you go to print it, the background does not print. For example if you press on print preview you will immediately see your background images or colors missing from the document. However there is no need to panic, because there is a simple solution for this.

How to make the backgrounds and colors show up when printing a document?

  1. When you have Word 2007 open, press on the Office symbol in the top left corner.
  2. A menu will appear. Press on the Word Options button at the bottom. See the screenshot below.

Word options - background colour printing

  1. The Word Options dialog box will appear. Press on the Display section in the left side bar.
  2. Now you will see the options for display.
  3. Under the printing options menu put a tick in the box next to Print background colors and images.
  4. Press OK.
  5. Now when you print your document the background colors and images will be included as well.

print background color

Another way to find options relating to printing backgrounds and images

  1. When you press to print a document, the printing options appear.
  2. You can press on the Options button to be taken to the Word printing options, the same window as above.
  3. This is a quick way to make sure you have enabled background color and images printing.

print background images and color

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6 Responses to Background colors and images will not print in Word 2007

  1. Bena says:

    Hi

    It’s very helpful. Thank you very much.

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  2. ME says:

    BS, this doesnt work

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  3. Mitz says:

    Well you have another problem with a different answer then…. Let us know what it is and maybe we can help.

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  4. Karen says:

    This is great, but I did all that and it still prints as a black box-no images. I originally imported a jpg file into the Word document (Vista)to do some overlays with text boxes. It will print the text boxes, but no image. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

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  5. Mitz says:

    Maybe it has something to do with where the picture is positioned… You know like behind text, tight with text, in front , and so on….Try a different position…

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  6. Jared Rondo says:

    Great article man Thank you

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