Pages - The Toolbar

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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.

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The default set of toolbar buttons for a word processing document in Mac OS X v10.7
(Lion) or later is shown below.

Add comments to

selected text or objects.

Add text boxes,
shapes, tables,
and charts.

Show thumbnails,
comments, Styles drawer,
page layout, and more.

Add preformatted

pages.

Open the Inspector window,

Media Browser, Colors

window, and Fonts window.

Create an outline.

View and edit
in full screen.

Share a copy of
this document.

The default set of toolbar buttons for a word processing document in Mac OS X v10.6.x
(Snow Leopard) or earlier is shown below.

Add comments
to selected text
or objects.

Add text boxes,
shapes, tables,
and charts.

Show thumbnails,

comments, Styles

drawer, page layout,

and more.

Add preformatted
pages.

Open the Inspector

window, Media Browser,

Colors window, and

Fonts window.

Create an outline.

View and edit
in full screen.

Share a copy of
this document.

To customize the toolbar:

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Choose View > Customize Toolbar or Control-click in the toolbar, and then choose

Customize Toolbar. The Customize Toolbar sheet appears.

2

Make changes to the toolbar as desired.

To add an item to the toolbar, drag its icon to the toolbar.
To remove an item from the toolbar, drag it out of the toolbar.
To restore the default set of toolbar buttons, drag the default set to the toolbar.
To make the toolbar icons smaller, select Use Small Size.
To show only icons or only text, choose an item from the Show pop-up menu.
To rearrange items in the toolbar, drag them.

3

Click Done.

You can perform several toolbar customization activities without using the Customize
Toolbar sheet:

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To remove an item from the toolbar, press the Command key while dragging the
item out of the toolbar.

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Chapter 1

Pages Tools and Techniques

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Chapter 1

Pages Tools and Techniques

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You can also press the Control key while you click the item, and then choose
Remove Item from the shortcut menu.

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To move an item, press the Command key while dragging the item around in
the toolbar.

To show or hide the toolbar, choose View > Show Toolbar or View > Hide Toolbar.