Apple Pages 2 - Manual (Page 116)

116 Chapter 5 Working With Styles
To create a new character style from scratch:
1 Select some text.
2 Format the selected text so that it looks the way you want. You can set the font, text
size, text color, typeface (such as italic or bold), character spacing, and baseline shift.
(To learn about formatting text, see Chapter 4, “Formatting Text and Paragraphs.”)
3 Press and hold the Add (+) button at the bottom of the Styles drawer and choose
Create New Character Style From Selection from the pop-up menu.
4 Type a name for the new style.
5 If you want to include only some of the attributes you set in the new character style,
click the disclosure triangle below the Name field, and select the attributes you want.
6 If you don’t want to apply the new style to the selected text, deselect the checkbox
labeled “Apply this new style on creation.”
7 Click OK.
Click the disclosure triangle
to show character attributes.
Click to select only those
attributes that override the
selected paragraph style.
Select the attributes to
include in the new
character style.