The body text for the word processing document is behind any elements I'm going to add.īut all I need to do to get this to work is to go to Arrange and then Move Object to Section Master. But it's going to cover the text that's there. ![]() You can see I can actually place this item on the page. If I were to take a shape, like a rectangle, and stick it in here and then go and change the arrangement so that it stays on the page and there's no text wrap. It's not going to have formatting for the page. As a matter of fact if I click on the background for a page you can see there's nothing in the Format sidebar for it. Now things are very different if you're doing a word processing document. But if I hadn't been playing around with that all those pages would have been set and any new page I add is going to use the new master page. It's a little inconsistent how it applies it to pages where there has already been a background set. So you notice some of the previous pages changed color and some didn't. I'll hit Done at the bottom to indicate I'm finished. So I'll change it to some other color there. You can see a big blue bar at the bottom. If I click that it goes into this special mode where I'm editing the master page. So in the Page layout sidebar here you see a big button for Edit Master Page. If you want to change the color for all the pages in the document what you need to do is edit the master page. For this page I can go ahead and choose say a gradient fill. I can go and choose another color for that page. So I've set it for this page but the second page just went back to the default. Now if you have several pages, we'll add two more pages here and turn on Thumbnails on the side, you can see that each page has its own color. Normally we would be looking at a Color Fill. I can do Advanced Image Fill which allows me to do things like scale the image and change things like the color and things like that. Set it to many different ways to fill the space. But I can choose another image and use that as a background. It's going to give me a default textured background. ![]() I can do Advanced Gradient so I can have more than two colors. I can do Gradient and then change the colors that is goes from and to. Once you're in that mode it's easy to change the background color of this page. You can tell it's selected if you see under Format it says Page Layout there. If the page isn't selected you can click somewhere on the background to get it selected. The first thing you need to do is make sure the page is selected and not some sort of element on the page. Let's zoom out here so we can see the entire page. So in most cases this is where you'll be. You're making a sign or something like that and you want to have something other than white as the background color. Most of the time when you want to change the background color on a page it's because you're doing page layout. If I want to do page layout, like create a newsletter or flier or poster or something like that my first step would be to switch to Page Layout, right there. ![]() So I have a brand new blank document here which means it's a word processing document. So if you want to change the background color in Pages the first thing you need to do is identify whether or not you're doing a page layout document or word processing document. Find out how you become a part of it at /patreon. MacMost is brought to you by a community of more than 350 supporters. Today I'm going to show you how to change the background color in Pages. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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