Thanks I shoulda known.. I'll try that, even AppleWorks does better than Word. The doc was sent to me in Word which I hate because it takes so long to load ... On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Carole Wessel wrote: > Adobe likes background, it's Microsoft Word's fault. > > if you click on HELP, this is what you can read : > "Add or change a background color or texture > Word displays backgrounds that you add by using the Background > command on the Format menu in online layout view only. These > backgrounds aren't designed for printed documents..." > > Try to tranfer your doc it into Power Point and create your > background in PPT and then make your PDF. > Good luck. > > Carole > > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Peter Saint James wrote: > >> Maybe Adobe doesn't like backgrounds. > > = > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-newbies/attachments/20090320/b263157f/attachment-0001.html