The page background color will not be printed, but will be saved as part of the document. Therefore, in such cases one should check that the aforementioned option is disabled and even do some testing - and post back here for all to know.įor more options on that, see this post, which says that this is also available for Office 20. I can confirm this for Office Word 2016, but cannot guarantee for older versions. > Options > Display > Print background colors and images) is disabled by default. Your document will preview the colors as you hover over the options under 'Theme colors'.Īs for the risk of having the dark background printed – as suggested in comment - that doesn't happen in Office Word 2016, because the specific option ( File > More.