Apple Pages - Manual (Page 36)

36 Chapter 2 Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
Adding Web and Email Addresses
You can create active hyperlinks to web addresses (URLs) and email addresses. When
you click a web link, it opens a web browser and displays the webpage you specify.
When you click an email address, it opens an email program and creates a new email
message. You can also create bookmarks that let you jump to a specific word or phrase
in your document. For specific instructions about creating hyperlinks and bookmarks,
see “Adding Hyperlinks and Bookmarks” on page 124.
Positioning Text and Graphics
Pages provides several tools to help you position text, images, and other objects on
the page, so you can achieve the design you want. Alignment guides appear in some
templates—or you can create your own—to align fixed objects anywhere on a page.
Rulers display page measurements in inches, centimeters, points, or picas, so you can
easily tell where you are placing an object.
Pages also displays position tags that indicate the X and Y coordinates of an object’s
top-left corner as you move the object around the page, or the object’s angle as you
rotate it. When you resize an object, size tags appear, displaying the object’s height
and width.
Rulers
You can show rulers to help you position objects on the page. Rulers indicate how far
an object is from the top of the page and the left edge of the page.
To show rulers:
m Choose View > Show Rulers.
To change the units of measure in the rulers:
1 Choose Pages > Preferences.
2 Choose an item from the Ruler Units pop-up menu. To display measurements as a
percentage of the distance across the page, select “Display ruler units as percentage.”
To place the ruler’s horizontal origin point at the center of the page:
m In Pages Preferences, select “Place origin at center of ruler.”
When you change ruler settings in Pages Preferences, the new settings apply to all
documents viewed in Pages, until you change the settings again.