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so there's been a lot of talk recently
about dark mode that's gonna be a new
feature in the next version of Mac OS
later this year that will allow you to
have dark backgrounds like black
backgrounds and light features like
light buttons white text things like
that using dark mode for writing can be
very useful but this new system wide
dark mode won't get you there if you
want to have dark mode and pages you
kind of have to do it yourself and you
can do it now or even in any recent
version of pages it's pretty easy takes
about a minute to set up but it can
create an environment that's better for
some people to write in if you have a
lot of writing to do a novel long report
that kind of thing you might want to try
doing this so here's how we're going to
do it first thing I want to do is I want
to create a dark background so let me
change the zoom here to 50% so I can see
the entire page I'm gonna insert a shape
and select the square shape I'm going to
move it to that four left hand corner
and drag its bottom right hand corner to
take over the entire page it locks into
place
really nicely so it's easy to fill the
page exactly notice how it's pushed the
text there into a second page don't
worry about that because you're gonna
see that's not gonna be a problem in a
minute I'm gonna change the color here
to black and you may want to use a very
dark grey and you know very light grey
for the text but I'll use just pure
black right here and now the next thing
I want to do is I want to have that in
the background of every page so I'm
going to go to arrange section masters
and move object to section master so
it's important I actually have that
black background selected that box
selected once I do that you can see the
text and the second page disappear
because now they're back here but if I
could select them there I can just
command a to make sure I have everything
selected let's zoom back in 225 percent
and you can see there is the text so
it's black text on a black background so
I want to go and change the text now
with everything selected to white and in
order to kind of keep that throughout
the entire document I'm going to hit
this update button next to body text so
I'm going to update the body text style
so all body text is now white so now I
can type then white text on a black
background
now this cut it doesn't really complete
it I've still got lots of light elements
here so let's go and you know I can go
to full screen mode so let me do that
now I'm going to go add change the zoom
amount here to fit with so it goes all
the way across the screen so that way I
don't have any of that kind of light
gray on the sides and I can get rid of
the toolbar if I really want to and go
to huge high toolbar it still comes up
when I move my cursor there before I do
view high toolbar I can actually click
the format button here to get rid of the
format bar there and now I can do the
high toolbar and now all I have is white
text on a black background so the idea
here is to keep writing and you just as
kind of a nice writing environment I can
always get back to the menu bar by going
to the top of the screen with my cursor
and when I'm ready to do it all pretty
quick to undo just show the toolbar
first maybe to bring up the format bar
here I could go ahead and in the menus
here let me go out of full screen mode
and in the menu here I could go to
arrange section masters make sex make
master object selectable so I can select
this black background by selecting kind
of off to the edge here you can see it's
grabbed it delete it let me turn that
off and I can go select my text you can
see it's white background white text now
on a white background change it to black
I'll take the body text and there I go
I'm back where I was and another way to
do that is simply to use copy and paste
instead so I can go back if I've got
white text in a black background if I go
to a new Pages document I paste it in of
course I'm going to get like text but if
instead I'd say pasted match style
I'll get black taxpayer's I'm pasting
just the text into the current style
which is regular body text so it's
another way to do it there is to kind of
have a a dark mode writing environment
that you can use and copy and paste text
into whatever document you're actually
working on
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