Apple Pages User Manual

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Chapter 4

Working With Styles

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To modify a paragraph style:

1

Choose View > Show Styles Drawer (or click Style in the toolbar and choose Show

Styles Drawer). Select the paragraph style that most closely matches the style you

want to design, or select Free Form.

2

Type some text and format it to look the way you want. (For information about

formatting the look of text, see “Formatting Text Size and Appearance” on page 47.)

3

Set the text alignment, character and line spacing, and the spacing before and after

the paragraph in the Text pane of the Text Inspector. (For more information, see

“Setting Text Alignment and Spacing” on page 54.)

4

If the paragraph style requires special tab stops, set them in the Tabs pane of the Text

Inspector. (For more information, see “Setting Tab Stops to Align Text” on page 58.)

5

If you want the paragraph style to be indented relative to the page margins, set the

paragraph indents in the Tabs pane of the Text Inspector.

6

Click More in the Text Inspector to select more formatting options, as described

below:

Set the first line indent.

Set the right indent for
the paragraph.

Set the left indent for the
paragraph.

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