There's nothing wrong with a white background, but Microsoft Word lets you change the color of a document's background. You can even use a picture, but don't get carried away.

Learn how to create a custom background or change background color of your Word document. We also discuss how to add drop caps in Word.

This tutorial will show you how to insert an animated GIF as a background in Microsoft Word documents. It is not very difficult to do so, if you follow these steps.