Apple Pages '09 - Manual (Page 21)

Chapter 1 Pages Tools and Techniques 21
Formatting Characters (Invisibles)
Each time you press the Space bar, the Tab key, or the Return key, or add a column,
layout, page break, or section break, Pages inserts a formatting character in the
document. These formatting marks are called invisibles because, by default, you can’t
see them.
Making formatting characters visible is often useful, especially when you’re formatting
a more complex document. For example, you can change your document format by
selecting an invisible and then pressing the Delete key to remove formatting.
To see invisibles:
1 Click View in the toolbar and choose Show Invisibles.
2 To make invisibles stand out better, you can change their color. Choose Pages >
Preferences, click General, click the Invisibles color well, and then select a color.
The table below shows what each formatting character represents.
Invisible character Represents
Space
Nonbreaking space (Option-Space bar)
Tab
Line break (Shift-Return)
Paragraph break (Return)
Page break
Column break (“Defining Column Breaks” on
page 51)
Layout break (“Defining Layout Breaks” on
page 51)
Section break (“Creating Sections” on page 59)
Anchor point (for inline objects with text
wrapping)
The Toolbar
The Pages toolbar gives you one-click access to many of the actions you’ll use when
working with documents. As you work in Pages and get to know which actions you
perform most often, you can add, remove, and rearrange toolbar buttons to suit your
working style.
To see a description of what a button does, hold the pointer over the button.