Apple Pages 2 - Manual (Page 106)

106 Chapter 5 Working With Styles
About Paragraph, Character, and List Styles
Pages provides three different kinds of preformatted styles that you can apply to
text for different purposes.
 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.
 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.
 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 Bulleted or
Numbered Lists and Outlines” on page 96). Some list styles are very 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 information
about the Styles drawer, see “The Styles Drawer” on page 27.