Canvas colour in Illustrator 6

I would like to change the grey colour behind the artboard from grey to white in Illustrator 6, please help

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Reckon that’s what he must mean
Are you sure, Steve?
Kurt may agree.

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I'm finding the clipboard colour in Illustrator CS4 very distracting when working - is there any way of setting this to a default of white as per CS3 (and also available in photoshop CS4).
The default clipboard colour is an off-white and doesn't appear to be very neutral on my screen.
The only way round I have found is to view the background/clipboard as a Transparency Grid and then make the transparency grid white, or hide the artboard altogether (which is annoying), both of these cannot be set as a default.
I have included a picture of a corner of the artboard, showing it against the clipboard.
Would appreciate a solution!
Cheers,
N

Thanks for that - another good solution but not possible for this to be a default setting either.
Does anyone else find this issue a problem - it seems strange to me as Indesign CS4 and the old version of illustrator both have pure white backgrounds, which are (arguably) easier to work with.
It seems a step backwards to have a fixed coloured background! Please make it a preference option Adobe!

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Is it possible to change the canvas colour in Page Layout mode?
Andy

Andy,
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Clockiebox,
In addition to what Monika said, you may consider which is worse, to scale down to have all Artboards fit into the 16,384 x 16,384 points Workspace (and scale up in connexion with printing, which is relatively straightforward with Acrobat/Reader), or to have Artboards spread over multiple Layers/documents.
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Did you measure (in Photoshop) what you call ‘pure black’?
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Is the Illustrator file in CMYK or RGB?
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I'll try to explain better:
When you use Layout Wizard: Canvas Page on which you whis lay out your datablock's item,
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background is gray for default
when u open Form builder the default canvas colour is gray as you said earlier
but when u try to open an existing form, Form builders display the actual colour of the canvas set in properties of canvas!
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