Researching information, Step 5:share your document, Step 5: share your document – Apple iWork '08 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Getting Started with Pages

Researching Information

Pages provides a variety of useful research and reference tools that you can use to

enrich your document.

To see a word’s definition:

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Select the word and choose Edit > Writing Tools > “Look Up in Dictionary and

Thesaurus.”

To research information on the Internet:

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Select the text you want to investigate and do one of the following:

 Choose Edit > Writing Tools > Search in Google.

 Choose Edit > Writing Tools > Search in Wikipedia.

You can also Control-click anywhere in your document to quickly access the research

and reference tools.

Step 5:

Share Your Document

When you want to share your document with others, you can print it, save it as a PDF

or in another format, or export it to an iLife application such as iWeb.

Here are ways to share your document:

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To export your document, choose File > Export and choose a format.

 PDF: PDF files can be viewed and printed in Preview, Safari, or Adobe Reader. If you

want to send a Pages document to someone who doesn’t have Pages, a PDF is a

good option.

 Word: Word files can be opened and edited in Microsoft Word on a Mac OS X

computer or a Windows computer.

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