Pages and Full screen back background

Pages had a clear full screen mode, with a pitch black background that was fantatic for writing. Now it has a gray background that is very distracting for a person that is a writer and on the computer all day. Also when Apple talks about simplicity, they have made the full screen step the opposite. Now one has to click to full screen then click to get rid of the toolbar. They went from one step to a two step process. This may not seem like a big deal but when you are dealing with multiple writing outlines, it becomes daunting to open and adjust them constantly with the extra steps. Now someone will say just go back to Pages '09, but when I put a document in the cloud it switches to new pages. As a writer, inspirations hits when out and about, so its great to add those thoughts into the document on my phone, but now I have to deal with coverting it back to old pages to get what I wrote on the phone to the clean full screen black background of '09. It was because of the full screen black sides that I stopped using Word. For me the new pages is a step backwards.
If anyone else agrees, please post. Hope apple will change it back.

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