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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
Chapter 7 Changing Object Properties 159
4 Repeat step 3 to create additional points as required. Every time you add a new point,
Pages connects it with the preceding point using a line with the current stroke and
with the first point using no stroke, and fills the shape with the default fill color for the
template you’re using. You can change the fill color using the Fill pop-up menu in the
Graphic Inspector.
To delete a segment you’ve just created, press Delete. Pressing Delete again removes
the preceding segment, too.
5 To stop drawing and close the shape (add a solid line between the last and first
points), click the first point.
To stop drawing and leave the shape open (no line between the last and first points)
so that you can work with it more later, press the Esc (Escape) key or double-click the
last point created.
Your new shape is a fixed object that you can move and group like any fixed object.
To finish and close an open shape:
1 Click once in the shape to select it, and then click it a second time to make it editable.
2 Double-click one of the two points at either end of the open segment.
3 To add additional points, click in other locations as needed.
4 To stop drawing and close the shape, click the point at the end of the open segment.
To change a custom shape to an inline object:
m Select the shape, and then open the Wrap Inspector and click “Moves with text”.
m Select the shape and choose Edit > Cut. Place the insertion point where you want the
shape to appear, and then choose Edit > Paste.
Here’s the open segment.