Apple Pages '09 - Manual (Page 217)

Chapter 9 Working with Table Cells 217
6 To display predefined text before or after any element, place an insertion point in the
format field, and then type your text. You can click any element and use the Left Arrow
and Right Arrow keys to place the insertion point.
7 To display space between elements, place an insertion point and press the Space bar
one or more times.
8 To delete an element in the field, select it, and then press Delete.
To move an element around in the field, drag it.
9 In the Name field, type a name for your date/time format.
Custom format names are listed in the Cell Formats pop-up menu in the Format pane
of the Table inspector.
10 Click OK to save your date/time format and apply it to the selected cells.
When you enter a date or time value into a formatted cell, the format is applied if the
value entered contains a hyphen (-) or a slash (/).
Here’s an example:
When you type this value into a cell with the
above format The value is displayed like this
4/16/99 April 16 1999 falls on day 106 of the year
2-23 February 23 2008 falls on day 54 of the year
Dec. 15, 2010 Dec. 15, 2010
Creating a Custom Text Format
You can define text to display before or after a value entered into a table cell when no
other format has been applied to the cell.
To define text to display in table cells:
1 Select one or more cells.
2 Choose Custom from the Cell Format pop-up menu in the Format pane of the
Table inspector.
3 From the Type pop-up menu, choose Number & Text.
4 Drag the (blue) Entered Text element from the Date & Time Elements box into the
empty format field above the box. (Delete any existing elements that may be in the
field before dragging in the Entered Text element.)