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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 4 Formatting Text and Paragraphs 91
To adjust the amount of space before or after a paragraph:
1 Place the cursor in the paragraph you want to change, or select several paragraphs.
2 In the Text Inspector, drag the Before Paragraph or After Paragraph slider. You can also
type a specific amount (5 pt, for example) in the text box.
Note: Spacing before a paragraph does not appear if the paragraph is the first one
following a layout break, or if it’s the first paragraph in a text box, shape, or table cell.
Spacing after a paragraph does not appear if it’s the last paragraph before a layout
break. To set spacing around text in boxes, shapes, and table cells, use the Inset
Margin control, described in “Formatting a Text Box or Shape” on page 103.
To adjust the amount of space between characters:
1 Place the cursor in the word you want to change, or select a block of text.
2 In the Text Inspector, drag the Character slider.
Dragging the slider to the left brings the letters closer together; dragging it to the
right moves them farther apart.
To change text color:
1 Select the word or words you want to change.
2 In the Text Inspector, click the color well.
3 In the Colors window, select a color. To read about using the Colors window, see
“Using Color and Image Fills” on page 145.
Changes made to text color in the Text Inspector will override text color changes
made in the Font panel, and vice versa. (To read about the Font panel, see “Using the
Font Panel to Format Text” on page 80.)
Using the Format Menu to Align Text
To adjust horizontal text alignment in the main document body, you can use the Text
submenu of the Format menu. If you want to adjust the spacing between individual
characters or lines, or if you want to align text vertically within a text box, shape, or
table cell, you must use the Text Inspector. The Text Inspector is also useful if you must
frequently change text alignment and spacing, because you can keep it open on your
screen as you work.
To align body text left, center, right, or justified:
m Choose Format > Text > [Align Left, Center, Align Right, Justify].