<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Choose a background color or graphic object here.</help:help-text></p>
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<p class="Paragraph"><help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER">You can define these properties for paragraphs, pages, headers and footers, text frames, table cells and tables, sections and indexes in the current paragraph or selected paragraphs.</help:case><help:case select="CALC">You can define a background color for cells, as well as background graphics for the Page Style.</help:case></help:switch><help:key-word value="watermarks" tag="kw65634_5" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="backgrounds; as watermark" tag="kw65634_4" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="graphics; background" tag="kw65634_3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="background; images" tag="kw65634_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Determines whether a color background or a pattern background is edited.</help:help-text> If you select color, you define a background color, selecting graphics allows you to define any graphics object as a background.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you select this dialog over the <help:link Id="65658" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1"> Format - Character...</span>menu</help:link> <help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="CALC">or the<help:link Id="66887">Format - Cell...</help:link>menu</help:case></help:switch><help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER">or the<help:link Id="67601">Format - Object...</help:link>menu</help:case></help:switch>, the <span class="T1">As</span> combination field will not be available. A dialog will appear which applies to color selection.</p>
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<p class="Head2">If As Color has been selected:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select a color as the background color or click "No fill".</help:help-text> Below the color areas the name of the current background color is shown.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER"><help:help-text value="visible">This is where you determine the scope of the self-defined background.</help:help-text> For the background of a Paragraph Style, decide if the background color is valid for the paragraph or for the selected characters. For a table, decide if the background is valid for the active cell, active column or whole table.</help:case></help:switch></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you have the possibility to <help:popup Id="65619" Eid="verknuepfung">link</help:popup> the selected pattern with your document.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this check box to see the selected image in the preview before inserting it in the document.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you press this button you enter the <span class="T1">Search Pattern</span> dialog. </help:help-text> The <span class="T1">Search Pattern</span> <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>dialog is similar to the <help:link Id="65636" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">Insert Pattern</span> dialog.</help:link></p>
<p class="Head2">Type</p>
<p class="Paragraph">This is where you define the representation of the background graphics.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">After selecting <span class="T1">Position</span> you can use the preview to specify the position of the graphics on the page.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Choose the <span class="T1">Area</span> option to see the graphic image exactly once behind the object for which it has been defined as background.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Select this option to define the position of the inserted graphic by clicking the desired corner or side in the <span class="T1">Position</span> field.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Choose the <span class="T1">Tile</span> option to display in original size the tile pattern behind the object (the table, the text border, the page, etc.)</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-id value="HID_POPUP_COLOR_CTRL" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:help-text value="hide" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Here you can select a color from the color palette.</help:help-text></p>