Technology Tip Sheets - Pages 08 - Access Tools
Pages 08 - Accessing the Tools
There are several ways to access the tools in Pages.
One way to access the tools is through the View
menu item in the top menu bar.
You can show or hide a tool just by clicking it in the
view menu.
For instance, in our example to the right, the Styles
Drawer, Page Thumbnail, Inspector and Toolbar are
showing. We can see that because the line item
says, ʻHideʼ and the tool name.
If we clicked on ʻHide Styles Drawer,ʼ Pages would
hide it and then the line item would say, ʻShow
Styles Drawer.ʼ
Clicking on the View icon on the left side of the
toolbar allows access to some of the commonly
used tools that are located in View in the Menu bar.
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The following tools are found in the center of the Toolbar.
The Text Box, Shapes, Table
and Chart icons are
shortcuts to items in the
Insert Menu. You can insert
any of these items into your
word processing document.
Clicking on the down arrow next to the
Shapes icon allows you to choose a
particular shape to insert. The shape will
be filled in with green when inserted but
you can change the format to make the
shape appear any way that will fit in with
your document.
The following tools are found on the right side of
the Toolbar.
The Inspector allows formating of all types within
your document. Changes to Page Setup,
margins, object placement, text, bullets, spacing,
tables, charts, links and more are done through the Inspector.
The Media Browser provides access to your iTunes library, photos and videos. You
can drag photos directly from the media browser into any documents.
Choose colors for text, objects, cells and more from the Color Wheel. Access the color
wheel by clicking the Colors icon in the Toolbar.
Clicking the Fonts icon opens the Fonts panel. Here you choose styles (underline or
strikethrough), text color, font, and font size.
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The other important menu is the Format bar. Access
this by clicking on View and sliding down to Show
Format Bar. The Format bar is a very thin gray toolbar
that appears below the Toolbar at the top of the
document.
The Format bar is another tool to quickly make
commonly used formatting changes such as adding bullets, changing font, size and
color, and style and alignment changes.
The Format Bar tools that are available change depending on what item in the
document is active. If you click on a graphic, the tools in the Format Bar change to
reflect formatting a picture.
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