Back groung effects

[Trudibabe]

How do I get a 2 tone colour effect as back ground on A4I am working on
office word and have gone into Format...backgrounds and then choose fill
effects then i choose my 2 colours and then i choose the shading style and
what variant that i want.When i say ok it looks fine on the screen and
sweeps across the whole of the page from 1 colour to the other.However when i
print it out i am not getting WYSIWYG.So for example if i have chosen red and
blackin the the horizontal style, on the screen it starts red at the top and
fades all the way to a black at the bottom of the screen.When i print out
what im getting is red that fades to black and then back to red and then to
black all the way down the page so that i am getting horizontal stripes.
I hope somebody understands my problem and can tell me its just a setting i
need to change.
Sorry to have gone on
Trudibabe

 

[Mary Sauer]

Gradients are not easy to do in Office. In my opinion they never print right no
matter what printer one uses. An alternative would be to draw a rectangle the size of
your paper, fill, fill effects, use your gradient choice, copy, delete the rectangle,
"paste special" as a .jpg.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This "stripe" effect may be related to a problem I had printing certain
JPEGs to my HP DeskJet (they printed in repeated squashed stripes of the
picture). This problem has suddenly cleared up, and the only thing I know
has changed is that I applied SP 2 for Office 2003. If you have Office 2003
and have not yet applied SP 2, you might do that and see if it helps.

 

[Trudibabe]

Can you tell me how i go about applying sp2 to office 2003 please
Regards Trudibabe

 

[Mary Sauer]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...97-2db6-4654-9db6-ec7d5b4dd867&DisplayLang=en

 

[Stephen Salazar]

I have the same problem. I've searched Microsoft's support site and other
sites via Google for an answer. It appears to be related to scaling during
printing in some way, but I cannot find a proper workaround. Honestly, I
think it's a bug or a feature that is unfortunately not available. There
should be a way to specify gradient styles when related to printing. You are
right...we are also not able to achieve WYSIWYG printing when using a
gradient as a background. Any help from Microsoft Professionals would be
appreciated. I have already tried speaking with a Microsoft Online
Concierge, but they were unable to locate a document that directly relates to
this problem.

Regards,
Stephen Salazar

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Stephen,

Gradient backgrounds in Word are basically scaled for 96 pixel per inch screen presentation. The graphics that are created are
small and repeated (tiled) to create an illusion.

Your printer rarely prints at only 96 ppi screen resolution. The same picture, to keep the same clarity repeats more times to fill
the page.

If you have Powerpoint you can, using a blank slide, set it up to letter size, portrait (if that's the layout of your Word document)
add the 2 color gradient background and use File=>Save as to a PNG graphic file. Then use View=>Header/Footer in Word and with
Insert Picture=>From File add the graphic and see if the print comes out looking like the onscreen gradient.

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I have the same problem. I've searched Microsoft's support site and other
sites via Google for an answer. It appears to be related to scaling during
printing in some way, but I cannot find a proper workaround. Honestly, I
think it's a bug or a feature that is unfortunately not available. There
should be a way to specify gradient styles when related to printing. You are
right...we are also not able to achieve WYSIWYG printing when using a
gradient as a background. Any help from Microsoft Professionals would be
appreciated. I have already tried speaking with a Microsoft Online
Concierge, but they were unable to locate a document that directly relates to
this problem.

Regards,
Stephen Salazar >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Stephen Salazar]

Thanks for the tip. This seems to be something that could use improvement,
interface-wise. I'm not sure users would understand that is what causes the
problem, so they might waste time with the headache of trying to figure out
why gradients don't print correctly. I think Microsoft should address the
issue in terms of enhancing the feature....maybe by adding an option to print
the gradient as it appears on-screen.

Regards,
Stephen Salazar

 

[BigMan1]

I have had the same issue with printing backgrounds and have found that if
you can use your print options to reduce to 76 DPI it prints the background
properly. The issue I have now is that some of the pictures I have within my
document appear incredibly blocky (due to the DPI being only 76). Is this
something to do with the format of my pics, the reason I ask is that it only
seems to efect some of the pics and not all of them!!!