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. Check out How To Change the Background Color In Mac Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

How to change background color on pages