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Formatting characters (invisibles) – Apple Pages User Manual

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Chapter 1

Overview of Pages

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Formatting Characters (Invisibles)

As you work in a Pages document, you may want to see the marks that indicate

character spaces, paragraph breaks, section breaks, or other types of invisible

elements so you can check the formatting of your document. In Pages, these

formatting marks are called

invisibles

.

To see invisibles:

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Choose View > Show Invisibles.

The table below shows what each formatting character represents.

To change the color of formatting characters:

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Choose Pages > Preferences, click the Invisibles color box, and then select a color.

Invisible characters

Space

Non-breaking space (Option-Space Bar)

Tab

Line break (Shift-Return)

Paragraph break (Return)

Page break

Column break

Layout break

Section break

Anchor point (for inline objects with text wrapping)