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Page and Section Backgrounds
By default, a OneNote notebook page has a blank white background. You can modify
the appearance of the page in several ways. For example, you can:
● Change the page size, orientation, and margins.
● Change the page background to any of 16 background colors. The available colors
are muted so they don’t obscure the page content.
● Display any of four horizontal rule line patterns (Narrow, College, Standard, and
Wide) or four grid line patterns (Small, Medium, Large, and Very Large).A notebook page displaying large grid rule lines that you can use to align content.● Hide rule lines and grid lines (while leaving them in place for alignment purposes)
or change the line color to any of 17 colors.
Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+Shift+R to show or hide rule lines.
These and other options are available on the View tab, in the Page Setup group.
Tip Changing the size, orientation, background, or other attribute of a page does not affect
other pages of the notebook.
You can change the color of a section tab and its Page Tabs area by right-clicking the
page tab, clicking Section Color, and clicking the color you want.