Change background color of single page in Google Document

Question

I would like to know how to change background color of single page in a Google Document. I want to make the Cover Page attractive.

Answer 1

AFAIK there is no way to change the background color of a single page. The best workaround I can think of is to create a a table that is 1x1 and expand the cell to be as big as possible. You can then change the color of the cell to be whatever you want.

The downside here is that, well, it's a table, so already not ideal. There other thing is that you are constrained by the margins of the page, unless you want to change the margins for every page in the doc.

Answer 2

It is possible to change the background color of a single page !! This is how you do it:

Select page setup from the file menu

Choose the color you want

Color is set for a single page, but also set for the whole document.

If you print out the finished documents as PDF files, then you can use for example the following web app to merge the two documents: http://www.pdfmerge.com/.

Answer 3

Why not just make a separate doc for your cover page? Or better yet, download your doc into a pdf and make a flipsnack or something for the paper.