InDesign CS4 Page Colour

greedy123 · 26 Mar 2009 at 11:58

How do you change the page colour in InDesign without drawing a box and filling it with colour? There must be a way to set a master page to black.

Sherbs · 26 Mar 2009 at 18:55

Make a box on the master page and make it Black.

Make sure the master page is applied to all pages.

Thats it.

greedy123 · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:13

Yeh I knew that lol... which is why i asked if there was another way of doing it

Sherbs · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:15

greedy123 said:
There must be a way to set a master page to black.

Well thats the answer, it only takes 2 seconds?

Unless I am not understadning the question properly. What're you trying to do?

greedy123 · 26 Mar 2009 at 20:24

problem with that method is you can't drag select when you override the master slide which I'm having to do for page titles. Its getting annoying. Was wondering if there was a way to change the page by default instead of the box.

Sherbs · 26 Mar 2009 at 20:58

Still not following, sorry =)

Craig R · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:52

greedy123 said:
problem with that method is you can't drag select when you override the master slide which I'm having to do for page titles. Its getting annoying. Was wondering if there was a way to change the page by default instead of the box.

1. Draw in your coloured box covering the whole page to create your background colour.

2. Lock the layer

3. Create a new layer

4. Stick your content in the new layer, you can drag away to your heart's content without the background layer being selected.

greedy123 · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:59

Craig R said:
1. Draw in your coloured box covering the whole page to create your background colour.

2. Lock the layer

3. Create a new layer

4. Stick your content in the new layer, you can drag away to your heart's content without the background layer being selected.

Thanks will do that! Should solve the issue.