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    Pages User Guide for Mac
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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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