Backgrounds

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint allow saving the background color or image to HTML.

Word

If the background is a color, Word implements the bgcolor attribute of the Body element using standard HTML colors. If the background is a picture, the background attribute of the Body element is used with a URL pointing to the image. Fill effects are not supported for Word backgrounds, and Theme blands are created through bitmaps.

Excel

Excel supports the saving of a background bitmap through the background attribute of the Body element. If all cells are selected and a background color for cells is chosen, the background color is defined through an HTML class setting that is used by the table that defines the cells.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint saves slides to a Web page frame. The frame color can be specified for multiple slides. The background of a slide is specified by the master slide, which can store colors using the standard HTML background-color style attribute of the VML Shape object used to create the slide. Image fills created by themes can be stored as bitmaps or as VML shapes stored in a master XML file.