How to set background color in Writer? [closed]

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As an addition to the previous instructions of changing the document background colors using the Appearance editor, the selection of colors are only limited to a pre-defined list of colors. You can add your own custom color using Menu Tools → Options → LibreOffice → Colors. Click "Add" to add a new color and provide a unique name, then click "Edit" to set the color to your liking, then click on "Modify" to save this color to the palette. Once this is done, your new color will be available in any of the color pick lists in the "Appearance" section.

If you mean the "Appearance" (user interface):
Menu Tools → Options → LibreOffice → Appearance → Custom colors → General → Document background.

I think he's asking what I was curious about as well: how to set the actual background color of the Libre Office Application as a whole. If you're looking at a page in Writer the default page background color is automatic/white, and the background of Writer is a 10% gray or so.

How would you change that 10% gray to be, say...40% gray?

Took a bit of Googling, but here's the answer:

Go to Tools/Options/Libre Office/Appearance and change the "Application Background" option (third down on mine) to whatever color you want. This will change the application's workspace background color only, not the menu background colors.

interesting way to do what Narin asked. As long as it is only a change in color on screen, it works as proofen above. But if Narin considers to print the entire page (= paper) with a certain background color, I am afraid it will not work. Reason: Every printer has a printing area limit wich is a bit smaller than the paper.

I am now curious what Narin really wants to do.

Too bad I can't upvote to say thanks just because I'm new. This is an atrocious policy and counts as a major down side to recommending libreoffice to clients/friends etc.

"Yea, it's a nice app suite I guess but you can't trim down the portable version to just writer and the forum assumes you're a spammer or something and cripples your ability to interact out of the gate."

/Rage

ThornyJohn, thank you :) I'm sorry I can't upvote your solution. :/

Sidenote to whom it may concern: Posts like the one I'm now writing are like roaches, for every one you see there are 10 you didn't.

Has this issue ever been addressed? I really want to be able to work with the whole page in a brown background, and white text in the middle. I have bad eyesight. I need the margins, so Web Mode won't work for me, and white margins with brown background are very distracting. I will have to go to a commercial product if this isn't addressed. It seems like a very bizarre bug to just let happen. I wish I was a coder so I could help fix it.