DisplayBackgroundShape class

Office 2013 and later

Display Background Objects When Displaying Document. When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is w:displayBackgroundShape.

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

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[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

displayBackgroundShape (Display Background Objects When Displaying Document)

This element specifies whether the images and colors defined in the document's background using the background element (§17.2.1) shall be displayed when the document is displayed in print layout view as specified in the view element (§17.15.1.92).

If this element is omitted, then background shapes shall not be displayed when the document is displayed in print layout view.

[Example: Consider a WordprocessingML document that has a turquoise background specified for all pages and is being displayed in page layout view, as follows:

If the document's background should not be displayed, that requirement would be specified using the following WordprocessingML in the document settings:

<w:displayBackgroundShape w:val="true" />

The resulting document would display the background in page layout view:

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Parent Elements

settings (§17.15.1.78)

This element’s content model is defined by the common boolean property definition in §17.17.4.

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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