Text Colour that will not change

Hi caroll,

Did Viking OSX's post solve your issue?

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Regards,Barry

By "preset" do you mean placeholder text? The following works identically for me on macOS 11.6.6 and 12.4, each with Pages v12.0.

I entered "[date]" (without the quotes) in a blank Pages document, and then selected the "date" text and changed it to red. I then inserted a default date from the Insert menu > Date & Time. At this point, whether you click on that date entry and a settings dialog appears, or you drag/select the still red text date contents without clicking, you can change the Text Color inkwell color from red to black. There is no icon for text color that I can see.

The shortcut to bring up the colour palette is shift command c. That should stay open until you physically close it. See if you can update the paragraph style (assuming there is one).