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Pages is amazing. First released in February 2005, Apple’s illustrious app has developed into a very powerful word processor. It’s packed with useful tools and features, so let’s take a look at them.
1 Sidebars
In the top-right corner of a Pages document’s toolbar, you see two buttons; Format and Document. Click on one to see the Format or Document tools. To hide the right-hand sidebar for Easily format your text using the Paragraph Styles window. You can make new styles too. distraction-free writing, click on the button that’s currently active.
2 Paragraph styles
Highlight a paragraph or lengthier piece of text, and in the Format sidebar, click the top option and you can change the paragraph style to one of those offered in the window. You can make new paragraph styles by formatting the text how you want it, highlighting it and in the Paragraph Styles window, clicking the ‘+’ symbol (top right).
3 Fonts
In the Format sidebar’s Style tab, the top section is labelled Font. Here you can change the font using the pull-down menu, with a further pull-down menu available for versions of that font such as Regular, Bold, Light and so on; different fonts have different options here. You can change the size of highlighted text – or the next text you type if none is highlighted – using the point size window under the font pull-down menu. You can also do this by pressing Cmd+[+] or Cmd+[–].