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How to do color a specific page (e.g., the cover page,) but NOT any other pages ahead? Seems like all other solutions are yet 2010, 2013 and NOT 2016/2019 and 2021, or will be roadblocked into by multiple things ahead. I dislike inserting a shape then flooding the page with that shape. Because there is a header and footer - and it will block the attempt.
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There are no section breaks that can separate the page color. It's on the Designs page, I'm done. What should I do?
The solutions are the same from 2007-2021.
The simplest method is to not go into the header/footer layer at all and put a shape (a borderless rectangle) of the color you want formatted to be behind text. This would be at the page level rather than in the header or footer level.
If you want to have text on a header or footer show up on top of your color, you need to have a section break after the page you want to have this and put your shape in the header, behind text and filling the entire page. Here is a screenshot showing it before it is expanded to fill the entire page.
This is not a true "background" in the sense that it is under the control on the Design tab. It is a shape.