How to change wordpad backround?

Question

I have a text document i want to change the backround color on all i find find is how to change the writing but i want the white backround to be black and ideas or do i need anotehr editor?

Answer 1

The easiest way might be to hunt around the web for a freeware rich text editor that supports background colors.

However, there is a way to do it in Wordpad, but it's a bit technical:

1. Create a new folder

2. Open the folder

3. On the Folder's Tools Menu, select Folder Options

4. On the View Tab, UNCHECK the box that says "Hide extensions of known file Types"

5. Right-click within the folder and select "New-->Text Document"

6. Give the text document a name ending in .txt, like "BlackBG.txt"

7. Double-click the text document to open it in Notepad

8. Type or copy and paste the following lines EXACTLY, at the VERY BEGINNING of the document, allowing no leading lines or spaces:

{\rtf1
{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;}
\highlight1\ This Text has a colored background \highlight0
}

9. Save and close the document.

10. Right click the document and choose "Rename"

11. Give it a name ending in .rtf, like "BlackBG.rtf"

12.Open the rtf document in Wordpad. You'll now have an area with black text on a black background. You can change the color of the text to something you can see, and substitute your own text as you see fit. But before making changes, save a copy of the original to use as a template in the future. You can also use other colors besides black by substituting values between 0 and 255 for the red, green, and blue, for example, \red255\green255\blue0 will give you a YELLOW background.

Well, I hope that helps! Thanks for an interesting problem that I enjoyed trying to solve. Have fun!

Answer 2

WordPad is a very basic word processor and just doesn't support that feature.

Try the free, and M$-Office compatible, Open Office from:
http://www.openoffice.org

Included: Writer (like Word), Calc (Excel), Impress (PowerPoint), Base (Access), Draw (M$-Paint) and Math

Just make sure that if you want others to be able to view the documents using M$-Office Word, for example, save them using "Save as..." in .doc format, instead of the Open Office default .odt format. Or use the built-in PDF creation feature.

Answer 3

I wish you can. but sadly wordpad doesn't allow this activity.