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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 161
3 To expand or contract the curve, drag the circular control or one of the control
handles.
4 To change the angle of the curve, move the control handles clockwise or counter-
clockwise. You achieve different effects when you move the handles together or
independently of each other. Experiment until you achieve the desired effect.
 To move the control handles together, press the Option key and drag one or the
other of them.
 To move only one control handle, press the Command key before dragging a
handle.
To reshape a straight segment:
1 Make the shape editable.
2 Click a point.
3 Drag the point clockwise or counter-clockwise to change the angle between the two
attached segments.
Drag the point out or in to change the length of one of the segments.
To transform corner points into curved points and vice versa:
m To change a corner point into a curved point, make the shape editable, and then
double-click the corner point.
m To change a curved point into a corner point, make the shape editable, and then
double-click the curved point.
m To change all corner points in one or more shapes into curved points, make the
shapes editable, select the shape(s), and choose Format > Shape > Smooth Path.
m To change all curved points in one or more shapes into corner points, make the
shapes editable, select the shape(s), and choose Format > Shape > Sharpen Path.
Drag a control handle or
rotate one or both
control handles to
change the curve.
You can also drag a point
to modify the curve.