arewers,
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The Apple Pages team creates these templates for two purposes. The first is to provide a library of starting points you can use to create great-looking documents. The second is to show all the different ways documents can be created. The background you're referring to could have been accomplished by using a rectangular object, then filling it with color. But in this case it was made by inserting a photo. I discovered this by clicking on the background. Little x's appeared in the corners, which tells me it's a locked object. Going to the Arrange menu, I was able to Unlock the object, which allowed me to select it. I then tried to change its fill color. I was unable to do that, because the color wasn't inserted using a fill. So I clicked on the Metrics inspector, and saw that it's really a photo called Elegant
FrontLeft.jpg. It's defined as an image placeholder. Here's what I did to replace it with a background color.
- Click on background so that little x's appear
- Click on Arrange > Unlock
- Press delete key to remove it
- Click on Objects icon > Shapes > rectangle
- Click on Colors icon
- Click on the little box or crayons icon
- Select your preferred color
- Drag the object into position, then stretch it as necessary
- Click on Arrange > Send to Back
Or, you could simply drag in another jpeg on top of it to replace it.
Let us know if this works for you.
-Dennis
