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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
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7 Changing Object Properties
This chapter describes more advanced features for
enhancing graphics and other objects in your
document.
You can directly manipulate object properties such as color, line style and thickness,
shadow, opacity, and orientation using the Inspectors and the Colors window. You can
adjust the brightness, color, and other properties of images. You can also draw custom
shapes and modify both predrawn and custom shapes. This chapter tells you how.
Using Color and Image Fills
You can create interesting effects with color in Pages. A shape can be filled with solid
color, color gradients, or even with an image, such as a photo or other graphic.
You can also adjust an object’s opacity (transparency). You can even use fill and
opacity effects to modify individual bars or pie wedges in charts.
Selecting Colors
You use the Colors window to select color for text, shapes, backgrounds, and shadows
in Pages.
To open the Colors window:
 Click Colors in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Colors).
 Click a color well in one of the Inspectors.