Creating outlined text, Changing text size – Apple Pages '09 User Manual

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Here are ways to add a strikethrough and shadows:
To add a strikethrough to selected text, click Fonts in the toolbar, click the Text

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Strikethrough button, and choose None, Single, or Double from the pop-up menu.
Or select text, and choose Format > Font > Strikethrough.
A strikethrough appears through the selected text in the same color as the text. To
change the strikethrough color, choose Color from the Text Strikethrough pop-up
menu, and then select a color in the Colors window. The strikethrough takes on the
color you selected, but the text retains its original color.
To add a shadow to selected text, click Fonts in the toolbar, and then click the Text

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Shadow button.
Drag the shadow opacity slider (the first slider on the left) to the right to make the
shadow darker.
Drag the shadow blur slider (the middle slider) to the right to make the shadow
more diffuse.
Drag the shadow offset slider (the third slider) to the right to separate the shadow
from the text.
Rotate the Shadow Angle wheel to set the direction of the shadow.
To set text shadows using the Graphic inspector, see

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Adding Shadows” on page 168

for more information.

Many templates include a strikethrough character style. To display the character styles
defined for your document, click the Character Styles button in the format bar. You
can also select the text you want to strike through, and then choose the strikethrough
character style in the Styles drawer.

Creating Outlined Text

You can change text to appear as a stenciled outline.

To create outlined text:

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Select the text you want to appear outlined, or click where you want to type new text.

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Choose Format > Font > Outline.

Outlined text you create in Pages may look different if the document is opened in
another application. If you plan to share a document that contains outlined text with
people who don’t have Pages installed on their computers, export the document as a
PDF file and then share this file with others.

Changing Text Size

You can change the point size of text to make the text larger or smaller.

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Chapter 5

Working with Text

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