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Since updating from Mojave to Ventura, some of my TextEdit documents no longer have a background color and some do.

I'd like to set a background color again. Apple mentions, in the Ventura TextEdit support pages, in the Font panel, a document color button, but on my screen it is missing from.

Is there still a way to set the background color in TextEdit?

Thanks

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AFAIK, you can only change the background colour in an RTF document (one where you can change the fonts). If your TExtEdit is set to 'text', hit Cmd+Shift+T to toggle to rich text.

Then in menu Format > Fonts > Show Fonts (Cmd+T) enter image description here

you get a pop-over panel where on the top you find a little "a" (normally on white background). enter image description here

Select that and a colour panel comes up enter image description here

Click a colour and you have a new background enter image description here

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  • Thank you. Looking back I almost can't believe why I didn't understand it right away.
    – laptopleon
    Commented Sep 11, 2023 at 15:31
  • No problem. I don't think it's super intuitive. Almost as if Apple forgot.
    – Ole Hansson
    Commented Sep 12, 2023 at 12:20

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