How to Fill Artboard in Illustrator
Filling the artboard in Adobe Illustrator to change the background color is not the same as filling the background in a pixel-based program such as Photoshop or Paint. Illustrator does not have a paint bucket tool that automatically fills the same color of pixels because it uses vector lines to depict the images. To fill the artboard in Illustrator you need to create a vector path the size of the artboard and fill it with the desired color.
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Instructions
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Click on the "Artboard" tool.
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Select the artboard that you want to fill. Note the artboard dimensions in the Control Panel at the top of the page.
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Select the "Rectangle" tool. Click inside the artboard.
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Enter the dimension of the artboard in the "Rectangle" dialog box.
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Click on the "Window" menu and select "Align" to open the Align panel.
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Click on the "Align to" drop-down menu and select "Align to Artboard."
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Click on the "Horizontal Align Center" icon; then click on the "Vertical Align Center" icon.
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Double-click the "Fill" icon in the "Tools" panel and select the desired fill color for the artboard. Click on the "Stroke" icon and select "None" directly below it to remove the stroke.
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References
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