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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
  • What’s new
    • Get started with Pages
    • Word-processing or page layout?
    • Intro to images, charts, and other objects
      • Create a document
      • Intro to creating a book
      • Use templates
    • Find a document
    • Open or close a document
    • Save and name a document
    • Print a document or envelope
      • Undo or redo changes
      • Use sidebars
      • Quick navigation
      • View formatting symbols
      • View layout markings
      • Rulers
      • Change the document view
      • Touch Bar for Pages
      • Customize the toolbar
      • Set Pages settings
      • Create a document using VoiceOver
      • Use VoiceOver to preview comments and track changes
    • Select text
    • Add and replace text
    • Copy and paste text
      • Add, change, or delete a merge field
      • Manage sender information
      • Add, change, or delete a source file in Pages on Mac
      • Populate and create customized documents
    • Use dictation to enter text
    • Accents, emoji, and special characters
      • Format a document for another language
      • Use phonetic guides
      • Use bidirectional text
      • Use vertical text
    • Add the date and time
    • Add mathematical equations
    • Bookmarks and links
    • Add links
    • Change the font or font size
    • Set a default font
    • Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough
    • Change the color of text
    • Add a shadow or outline to text
    • Change text capitalization
      • Intro to paragraph styles
      • Apply a paragraph style
      • Create, rename, or delete a paragraph style
      • Update or revert a paragraph style
      • Use a keyboard shortcut to apply a text style
    • Copy and paste text styles
      • Format fractions automatically
      • Create and use character styles
      • Ligatures
      • Add drop caps
      • Raise and lower characters and text
      • Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
    • Add a highlight effect to text
    • Format hyphens, dashes, and quotation marks
    • Set line and paragraph spacing
    • Set paragraph margins
    • Format lists
    • Set tab stops
    • Align and justify text
    • Set pagination and line and page breaks
    • Format columns of text
    • Link text boxes
    • Add borders and rules (lines)
    • Set paper size and orientation
    • Set document margins
    • Set up facing pages
    • Page templates
      • Add pages
      • Add and format sections
      • Rearrange pages or sections
      • Duplicate pages or sections
      • Delete pages or sections
      • Table of contents
      • Bibliography
      • Footnotes and endnotes
      • Headers and footers
    • Add page numbers
    • Change the page background
    • Add a border around a page
    • Add watermarks and background objects
    • Create a custom template
      • Add an image
      • Add an image gallery
      • Edit an image
      • Add and edit a shape
      • Combine or break apart shapes
      • Draw a shape
      • Save a shape to the shapes library
      • Add and align text inside a shape
    • Add 3D objects
    • Add lines and arrows
    • Animate, share, or save drawings
      • Add video and audio
      • Record audio
      • Edit video and audio
    • Set movie and image formats
      • Position and align objects
      • Place objects with text
      • Use alignment guides
      • Layer, group, and lock objects
    • Change the transparency of an object
    • Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image
    • Add a border to an object
    • Add a caption or title
    • Add a reflection or shadow
    • Use object styles
    • Resize, rotate, and flip objects
      • Add or delete a table
      • Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
        • Add or remove table rows and columns
        • Move table rows and columns
        • Resize table rows and columns
      • Merge or unmerge table cells
        • Change the look of table text
        • Show, hide, or edit a table title
        • Change table gridlines and colors
        • Use table styles
      • Resize, move, or lock a table
      • Add and edit cell content
        • Format dates, currency, and more
        • Create a custom table cell format
        • Format tables for bidirectional text
      • Highlight cells conditionally
      • Alphabetize or sort table data
      • Calculate values using data in table cells
      • Use the Formulas and Functions Help
      • Add or delete a chart
      • Change a chart from one type to another
    • Modify chart data
    • Move, resize, and rotate a chart
      • Change the look of data series
      • Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
      • Change the look of chart text and labels
      • Add a border and background to a chart
      • Use chart styles
    • Check spelling
    • Look up words
    • Find and replace text
    • Replace text automatically
    • Show word count and other statistics
    • View annotations
    • Set author name and comment color
    • Highlight text
    • Add and print comments
    • Track changes
    • Send a document
    • Publish a book to Apple Books
      • Intro to collaboration
      • Invite others to collaborate
      • Collaborate on a shared document
      • See the latest activity in a shared document
      • Change a shared document’s settings
      • Stop sharing a document
      • Shared folders and collaboration
      • Use Box to collaborate
    • Use iCloud Drive with Pages
    • Export to Word, PDF, or another file format
    • Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
    • Reduce the document file size
    • Save a large document as a package file
    • Restore an earlier version of a document
    • Move a document
    • Delete a document
    • Lock a document
    • Password-protect a document
    • Create and manage custom templates
      • Transfer documents with AirDrop
      • Transfer documents with Handoff
      • Transfer documents with the Finder
    • If you can’t add or delete a page
    • If you can’t remove something from a document
    • If you can’t find a button or control
    • If page formatting keeps changing
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Keyboard shortcut symbols
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