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Using Text Boxes, Shapes, and Other Eects to Highlight Text

Callouts and sidebars are used to make text stand out from the main body of text in a

document. Pages oers many ways to emphasize text:

Adding text to text boxes Â

Adding a background (or Â ll color) to paragraphs

Adding borders and rules to text Â

Formatting text in columns Â

Typing text in shapes Â

You can also use table cells to hold callouts. To read about working with tables, see

“Working with Tables” on page 176.

To learn about Go to

Adding and linking text boxes “Adding a Floating Text Box” on page 104

“Adding an Inline Text Box” on page 105

“Linking Floating Text Boxes” on page 106

Emphasizing text with color, borders, and rules “Setting Character and Paragraph Fill Colors” on

page 107

“Adding Borders and Rules” on page 108

Adding text to columns or shapes “Presenting Text in Columns” on page 108

“Putting Text Inside a Shape” on page 109

Adding a Floating Text Box

When you add a text box as a oating text box, it’s anchored to a position on the page

so that body text on the page ows around it. You can move the oating text box by

selecting it and dragging it.

To create a oating text box:

1 Click Text Box in the toolbar.

A text box appears on the page.

In a word processing document, you can also create a oating text box by converting

an inline text box. Choose Insert > Text Box; an inline text box appears. Click the inline

text box to select it, and then click the Floating button in the format bar.

2 In the text box, double-click the highlighted placeholder text and type.

3 Drag the selection handles to resize the text box and reveal any hidden text. (Or you

can create linked text boxes so that the text ows continuously into another text box.)

To read about linked text boxes, see “Linking Floating Text Boxes” on page 106.

4 When you’ve nished typing, click outside the text box. Or, to stop editing text and

select the text box, press Command-Return.

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Apple Pages User's Guide Page 104