change background color in indesign

[straightlife]

I followed a tutorial on how to place a background color in an indesign project.

It doesn't work.

Look at the attached photo...

I created a rectangle over the page, and text disappeared but image, object remained visible

I filled rectangle with a color

I sent the the colored rectange to the background. Nothing changed. (In the tutorial, it changed and the text became visible.)

So I opened text frame options and clicked the box that says "ignore text wrap."

The result was very weird. check the photo.

Maybe the project is corrupted. Again?

Does anybody know a method that works?

Using indesign 2021 on a mac running 10.15.7

Here's a beautiful attachment showing all my steps...

[Manan Joshi]

It would be better if you share a sample indd file so that someone can look at it and provide some inputs.

-Manan

[straightlife]

wow. Didn't know I could do that! wow. I will look it up for next time.... I think some of the people below might have saved me. gotta check out their fixes!

Here's a dropbox link to a bit of the problem. I don't know the correct way to do this...https://www.dropbox.com/s/o5gh7c1xv15jupj/Archive.zip?dl=0 

[rob day]

Looks like the fill of your text frame is set to Paper, try setting it to None.

[straightlife]

No. Unfortunately, it is set to none.  

 

[Barb Binder]

In the first new screen shot (with the arrow) the text frame isn't selected. Try selecting it and check again.

~Barb 

[straightlife]

Tried that. Set to none.

[Barb Binder]

Hi @straightlife :

1. I wish everyone would post such a clear pictorial of their workflow! That was awesome!
2. Is text wrap on for the blue frame? Select the blue frame and disable it with Window > Text Wrap and click the first button on the top row in place of ignore text wrap in Text Frame Options on the text frames.

~Barb  

[straightlife]

Text wrap turned off....  

[straightlife]

HOWEVER. When I didn't use uploaded text from WORD (it's a long document), Everything worked just as it was supposed too!

Before loading the color I created a text box and typed in it.

Then I placed the photo.

Then I made a rectangle and sent it to the back. That worked.

So....  I can't believe I have to retype all the text directly into Indesign in order to get a colored background....

So, help???????

Is there an alternative way to import text when it won't have a white background?

[straightlife · Accepted solution]

Thanks everybody for being so supportive. I believe something went wrong with the text I placed from WORD.  I exported the text in the document as a .txt file.

I imported it, and everything worked quite well. So the problem has been solved.  I wouldn't have perservered if you guys hadn't made your kind suggestions.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

It looks like you might have Paragraph Shading turned on for the text. Select the text and from the Paragraph panel’s fly out menu check Paragraph Borders and Shading>Shading. Paragraph Shading can also be included with the text’s applied Paragraph Style: