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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 (page 46)

Layout break (page 46)

Section break (page 53)

Anchor point (for inline objects with text wrapping)

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