Layout - Page colour - pick a pale green from the drop down options, IIRC.
Depends upon the version you have, though. I think it might be under Design on some newer ones.
And if you want it to print the page colour, you often have to enable it in the File Menu - Options.
I usually start with A3 paper and marker pens to try and work out what I want to talk about, then write a paragraph if I can or headings for structure, rather than final ones.
I'd have Introduction
write something about what spangles were. Add a picture.
write something about what the issues were facing 19th century spangle farmers, such as infestation with mangleorchestrachomper beetles (with a picture of both beetle and the damage to the spangle plant).
Give a compare and contrast between production of spangles in 1746 and 1837 (or whatever figures I could find, in a graph).
write something about the attempts to alleviate the crop losses in lesser parquet spangles that had failed.
Stick in a quote about the consequences of such spangle losses. A picture, too.
Say that Toxteh O'Grady was a spangle barnacle farmer from Luton and hornblazerpenwoggler farming was created in order to do something (make the beetles' wings drop off so they couldn't achieve the 83.7326 degree angle of approach for mating, for example).
Talk about the impact of this introduction of hornblazerpenwogglers with a graph and saying what was there, add a quote.
Rehash the stuff into a TL;DR
References
Bibliolography
Etc, etc. Start with typing 'stuff about spangles' 'picture of 17th century spangles in a field' 'graph here', so you don't have acres of blank space and an equally blank mind, then what you are doing is filling in the gaps and only writing about one thing at a time, instead of ten thousand.
Oh, and always start with pasting full links right underneath your quotes and pictures, so you can find them in an instant, rather than having to remember to put them in at the end.