Apple iWork '08 - Manual (Page 30)

30 Chapter 1 Getting Started with Pages
Using Styles and Creating Lists
A style is predefined formatting for a particular kind of text, such as body text or
captions. Styles are useful for quickly formatting and reformatting a document. When
you apply a style to text, it automatically uses the style’s font, size, color, and more. If
you want to change something—the size of body text, for example—you can simply
redefine the style—all the text that uses the style updates automatically to reflect the
new formatting.
Pages provides three kinds of text styles:
 Paragraph styles can be applied only to entire paragraphs (chunks of text that end
with a Return character), not to individual words within paragraphs.
 Character styles can be used to format individual words, groups of words, or letters
within a paragraph. A common use of character styles is to emphasize particular
words using bold or italic. Applying a character style does not change the style of the
rest of the paragraph.
 List styles are used to create bulleted or numbered lists. Pages provides many list
styles; you can modify these styles or create your own.
You can apply paragraph, character, and list styles using the Format Bar or the Styles
drawer.