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I have a white document. I can not add color to it for the life of me. I searched on google, read many things, none work. There is nothing anywhere to do and the color and swatches and gradient are white with a red line through it.
Never will ever understand why I can never just open this program, make something and be done with it. Everything thing is just a complex complicated chore.
MS paint can easily add color but not indesign.
Seriously? A billion dollar company and I had to make a box around it? Wow! That takes the cake. Not one document or resource anywhere said I need to make a box around a blank page that i want a different color other than white. I seen dumbness in my life but that utterly takes the cake, draw a box around your brand new completely blank document, instead of just adding color to it or being offer the choice of a non white paper, i a poor man and look at that million dollar idea a billion dollar c
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Sorry I forgot to mention yes I am build a dresser from ikea without reading the instructions, so yeah go ahead and make fun of me.
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I am literally following these directions to the T
Apply colors to objects in an Adobe InDesign document
Does not work. What am I doing wrong?
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Seriously? A billion dollar company and I had to make a box around it? Wow! That takes the cake. Not one document or resource anywhere said I need to make a box around a blank page that i want a different color other than white. I seen dumbness in my life but that utterly takes the cake, draw a box around your brand new completely blank document, instead of just adding color to it or being offer the choice of a non white paper, i a poor man and look at that million dollar idea a billion dollar company could not come up with. Adobe sucks. No wonder it is the virus capital of the world.
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No one ever claimed that InDesign was a program for beginners. It's a full professional program like Photoshop is for working with images. People need to take a classroom or a video course or more to get full use of all of its power. (If you were on a Mac, you could use Pages which is designed for beginners. I'm there are simpler programs for Windows users too.)
Short answer: Choose the Rectangle tool from the Tools panel (looks like a rectangle). Set the fill color (on the Swatches or Control panel) to pick the color background you want to use. Drag out the Rectangle tool in the area where you want a colored background. If necessary, choose Object > Arrange > Send to Back to send the rectangle to the lowest level of the stacking order below (behind) other objects like text frames.
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I've marked your non-answer an NOT correct, and I'm locking this thread. You obviously need find a simpler program you can use.