Apple Pages User Manual

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Chapter 4

Working With Styles

Language: Choose a language from the pop-up menu to specify the language used

to spell-check this paragraph. If your document will include quotes or sections in

another language, you can specify a language for the spelling dictionary used in

those paragraphs. The spelling dictionary determines how words are spelled and

hyphenated.

Remove hyphenation for paragraph: Select the checkbox if you want to turn off

automatic hyphenation for this paragraph style in a document that has automatic

hyphenation turned on. (To turn it on for the document, use the Document

Remove ligatures: Select the checkbox if you don’t want to use ligatures in this

paragraph style in a document that has ligatures turned on. (To turn it on for the

document, use the Document Inspector. See page 89. If any text is selected when

you remove ligatures, it will be applied to the selected text as a style override, unless

you complete step 7, below.)

Baseline Shift: Enter a number in the field. A negative number places the text lower

than the surrounding text. A positive number places the text higher than the

surrounding text. (If any text is selected when you set the baseline shift, it will be

applied to the selected text as a style override, unless you complete step 7, below.)

Paragraph Fill: Select the checkbox and click the color well to make a color

background appear behind the paragraph. For instance, you can create a heading

style that presents white text against a dark background. The color extends from the

left paragraph margin to the right.

In the Styles drawer, click the arrow to the right of the paragraph style name, and

choose one of the following:

Redefine Style From Selection: Redefines the existing paragraph style for the

whole document.

If you choose this, your formatting changes will apply to all other instances of this

style throughout the document. (But any character styles that have been applied

will not be affected.)

Create New Paragraph Style From Selection: This doesn’t alter the existing style,

but creates a new style based on the formatting choices you’ve made in the

previous steps.

If you select this, type a name for the new style, and then click OK.