<div>
Every new doc has a blue background. How can I get it to go back to white and stay?
</div>


Every new doc has a blue background. How can I get it to go back to white and stay?

<div>
I think David's got you on the right track -- delete the normal.dot file (which governs the defaults for Word documents), then re-start Word. &nbsp;Word will re-create the normal.dot file with all the &quot;factory defaults&quot; restored.<br />
<br />
The normal.dot file is usually located somewhere like:<br />
C:\Documents and Settings\user.name\Applica<wbr />tion Data\Microsoft\Templates<br />
<br />

</div>


I think David's got you on the right track -- delete the normal.dot file (which governs the defaults for Word documents), then re-start Word.  Word will re-create the normal.dot file with all the "factory defaults" restored.

The normal.dot file is usually located somewhere like:
C:\Documents and Settings\user.name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates



<div>
Contrain, <br />
If altering the Word background options did not work for you please close Word, locate and delete the normal.dot file. Launch Word for testing. Please make sure that your search options include hidden and system files. :-)
</div>


Contrain,
If altering the Word background options did not work for you please close Word, locate and delete the normal.dot file. Launch Word for testing. Please make sure that your search options include hidden and system files. :-)

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Every time I open a new document in Word 2002, the background is blue. How do i get it to white like normal and keep it that way?
</div>
</div>


Every time I open a new document in Word 2002, the background is blue. How do i get it to white like normal and keep it that way?

New blank document has blue background

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.