Numbers
Numbers User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
- What’s new in Numbers 14.1
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, graphs and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Touchscreen basics
- Copyright
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Change the sheet background in Numbers on iPhone
You can add a colour to the background of individual sheets in a spreadsheet.
Change the sheet background
Select the tab for the sheet that you want to add a background to.
Tap an empty space on the sheet so nothing is selected.
Tap
, tap Background, then choose a colour.
If objects on your sheet, such as table cells and text boxes, don’t have a background fill, they show the background colour. To add a fill, see Change the background of table cells or Fill objects with colour.
Spreadsheets automatically print with background colours. To turn off background colours when printing, see Print a spreadsheet in Numbers on iPhone.
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