Pages
Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
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- Use iCloud Drive with Pages
- Export to Word, PDF or another file format
- Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
- Reduce the document file size
- Save a large document as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a document
- Move a document
- Delete a document
- Lock a document
- Password-protect a document
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
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Add a border and background to a graph in Pages on Mac
You can add a border and a background colour to any 2D bar, column, area or scatter plot.
![A 2D column chart with a gradient background.](https://help.apple.com/assets/62967EA1B6B2965DB7232612/62967EA2B6B2965DB7232627/en_AU/1b2de210584dc260bec3fd809704f381.png)
Click the chart, then in the Format
sidebar, click the Chart tab.
In the Graph Options section of the sidebar, select the Border tick box.
To add a background colour to the graph, or to choose a style and colour for the border, click the disclosure arrow next to Background & Border Style, then use the controls in that section.
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