[Tex/LaTex] How to just place a background colour throughout an entire line with text

backgrounds

I think the title says it all, just look at this

The easiest way. No tables. No packages.
If there is need for some, I can't complain though.
It's just because I haven't seen a question quite like this one for TEX.
The image is from Word and what the person basically did was to select the entire line and fill with a background colour fill.

Thank you.

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Pretty easy with tcolorbox and same special settings, although this is a package and at least one package must be loaded to support colours.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{tcolorbox}[colback=gray!50,enhanced,sharp corners,frame hidden,halign=center]
HOW CAN I DO THIS IN \LaTeX{} THE SIMPLER WAY?
\end{tcolorbox}
\blindtext
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to set background colour for a whole column in beamer

Based on your "half-way" solution, putting the logo column first moves the logo to the left side, like you wanted. Also, placing \vline inside the column environment eliminates the space before the line. It may not be elegant, but hopefully this is what you had in mind. Note that with this approach the height of the logo determines the height of the headline.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[size=a2, orientation=landscape]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{mwe}
\setbeamercolor{separation line}{bg=black}
\setbeamercolor{headline}{bg=white}
\setbeamercolor*{example header}{fg=black}

% ----------- Global Background -------------
\usebackgroundtemplate{%
    \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{example-image}%
}

% ----------------- Headline ------------------
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{%
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{0.2\paperwidth}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=0.99\linewidth]{headline}
    \vfill
    \centering
    \includegraphics[height=9cm]{example-image-golden-upright}
    \vfill
    \end{beamercolorbox}
\vline
\end{column}%

\begin{column}{0.6\textwidth}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.6\paperwidth]{example header}
    \centering
    \usebeamercolor{title in headline}{\color{fg}\textbf{\Huge{\inserttitle}\\[1ex]}}
    \usebeamercolor{author in headline}{\color{fg}{\huge{\insertauthor}\\[1ex]}}
    \usebeamercolor{institute in headline}{\color{fg}{\LARGE{\insertinstitute}\\[1ex]}}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\end{column}

\begin{column}{0.2\textwidth}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=0.2\paperwidth]{example header}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\end{column}
\end{columns}

\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth]{lower separation line head}
    \rule{0pt}{2pt}
\end{beamercolorbox}
}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\institute{Institute}

\begin{document}
This is some text.
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to add a background to every page except the first

If you start your document with the title on page 1, the following is enough:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\usepackage{ifthen}

\title{foobar}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\AddToShipoutPictureBG{\ifthenelse{\isodd{\value{page}}}{}{\includegraphics{backgroundimage.pdf}}}
\lipsum[1-30]
\end{document}

I don't know about the \makeback macro, so I can't tell you anything about that.

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