Make sure you’re not editing the opacity setting for the shape object’s shadow.ħ. Turn down the gradient fill’s opacity to 50 percent. You could select Color Fill instead, but a gradient background color adds a touch of elegance to the document.Ħ. If you don’t see the Inspector at the right side of the window, click on the Format button at the top right of the window, or go to the View menu and select Inspector -> Format.ĥ.

Make sure you’re in the Style tab of the Inspector, then click the Advanced Image Fill dropdown menu. You’ll know the entire page is covered when the yellow guides appear and they indicate the height and width of the shape is the same as the page size.Ĥ. Resize the rectangle to cover the whole page. To start, add a shape to the document by clicking on the Shape button on the toolbar.ģ. Here’s our document with two pages of body text. This method also works with photos, so we’re going to get a little fancy here and do both–make document a background with a tinted image.

This quick tutorial will show you how to change the background color, and make sure it appears on every page of the document. Have you ever wanted to change the background color of an Apple Pages document? If the document has full-page body text (instead of text boxes), and you try to drag a photo, shape, or object onto the page, you’ll notice that the text either gets pushed around like two magnets repelling each other, or it gets covered up.

How to change background color on pages