Change Background and Line Color of Shape in Word
Change background color of shapes like solid fill, gradient fill, picture or texture fill and pattern fill and also change color of line.
How to Format Shape with Effects in Microsoft Word
How to Use Fill pane to Format a Shape
You can fill shape with an image, pattern etc. in Microsoft Word 2007. This function (Excepting gradient) are unavailable in Microsoft Word 2010. The new version has only a plus point is that you can apply gradient on normal text with this feature.