About paragraph, character, and list styles – Apple Pages User Manual

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Chapter 4

Working With Styles

When you import a document from Microsoft Word, any styles it contains are

imported into the Pages document and can then be used like any other styles created

within Pages.

About Paragraph, Character, and List Styles

Pages provides three different kinds of preformatted styles that you can apply to

text for different purposes.

Â Paragraph styles: These styles can be applied only to entire paragraphs (chunks

of text that end with a carriage return), not to individual words within

paragraphs. These include styles for headings, body text, callouts, captions,

headers, and footers. Paragraph styles can include specifications for font, size,

text color, character and line spacing, text shadow, background color,

indentation and margins, tab settings, and more. If you want to create a table of

contents for your document, you need to use paragraph styles when creating

headings in your document. Most documents will use a greater variety of

paragraph styles than character or list styles.

Â Character styles: You can apply a character style to any group of characters,

including individual words or groups of words, or letters within a paragraph.

Common examples of character styles are different colors or font sizes used to

emphasize individual words or phrases. Character styles can be applied to text

within a paragraph without changing its paragraph style.

Â List styles: When you want to create simple lists or an outline, you can apply list

styles to your text. List styles automatically format your text with bullets or

numbering, depending on which kind of list style you choose. You can also

indent paragraphs as a block by changing their list indent level (see “Creating

basic, for simple lists; others, such as Harvard and Legal, allow you to create

outlines.

All three of these style types can be seen in the Styles drawer. For more