Apple Pages - Manual (Page 76)

76 Chapter 4 Working With Styles
Finding and Replacing Styles
If you want to change the look of your document by changing all instances of a style
to a different one, you can find and replace the style throughout the document
without searching for specific text.
To find and replace a style:
1 Choose View > Show Styles Drawer (or click Style in the toolbar and choose Show
Styles Drawer).
2 In the Styles drawer, rest the pointer over the name of the style that you want to
replace and click the arrow to the right of its name.
3 Choose Select All Uses of [style name]. All instances of the style are selected
throughout the document.
4 Select the name of the style to which you want to change the selected text.
You can also modify a text style by copying the style from one instance of text, and
pasting it to some other text. This works for paragraph styles and character styles.
To copy and paste a paragraph or character style:
1 Place the insertion point in a paragraph or word whose style you want to copy, and
then choose Format > Copy Paragraph Style or Copy Character Style.
2 Place the insertion point in a paragraph or word you want to modify, and then choose
Format > Paste Paragraph Style or Paste Character Style.
The text takes on the new style, but its content is not altered.
If you frequently copy and paste styles, you can add the Copy Style and Paste Style
buttons to the toolbar. To learn about customizing the toolbar, see “The Toolbar” on
page 22.
Modifying and Creating New Paragraph Styles
A paragraph is any block of text followed by a Return character. For these blocks of
text—including headings, body text, footers, callout text, and so on—you can define
the appearance, tab spacing, margins, background color, page breaks, and more.
If you don’t find a paragraph style with exactly the look you want in the Pages
templates, you can modify an existing style, or create a new style.