How do I remove the background color from text frames in Publisher?

[bobdobbs]

I'm starting to get an undesirable behaviour when I add body text.

When I add text, the area occupied by text has a background color.

How do I prevent this from happening?
 

[Brian_J]

Take a look at the Text Frame panel and see if Fill is set there. If so, you can disable the fill color there. I believe Publisher remembers the Fill setting you last used, so if Fill is disabled in the current Text Frame, I think that setting should be remembered the next time you create a Text Frame.

[bobdobbs]

2 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

Take a look at the Text Frame panel and see if Fill is set there. If so, you can disable the fill color there.

Sorry, I'm not sure what the Text Frame panel is.

Is it the bar at the top that becomes activated with the Text Frame Tool is selected?
The only UI element I can see there that indicates for color is indicating for font color.


 

[Brian_J]

If you’re on a Windows computer, in the Menu Bar: Window > Text > Text Frame.

If you’re on a Mac, I don’t remember what the top-level equivalent of Window.

(The bar that changes depending on which tool is selected is called the Context Toolbar.)

[Brian_J]

Here’s the Affinity help page for the Text Frame panel in case it helps: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/textFramePanel.html

[bobdobbs]

@Brian_J Thanks - your directions enabled me to find those text frame settings.

This is where things get more confusing:

There is no fill set.
But if I set the fill, then the entire text frame gets a fill.

It seems that the background color that that is bothering me is independent of the text frame background fill.

The background color that I want to remove only appears behind text characters, and not the entire text frame.

-- edit before I submit this reply --

I think I had selected the 'box' text style rather than the 'body' text style.

Setting the text style to 'body' sets things aright.
 

[Brian_J]

Glad you got it figured out.

So you were likely seeing a Decoration fill set in the text style.