Amaya Toman Do you often use the native Pages app on your Mac to create, manage, and view all kinds of documents? Then you should definitely pay attention to our article today. In it, we will introduce you to five tips and tricks that will make working in Pages on Mac even better for you.
It could be interest you
Check the character count
The number of characters in a document is often a very important figure - for example, if you are preparing certain types of text for study purposes. You definitely don't need to manually check the number of characters in your text. The Pages application offers – just like other programs of this type – a function that keeps track of the number of characters. Enough on the bar at the top of the screen of your Mac click on View -> Show character count.
Gallery
Track changes
If you're collaborating on a document with other users, you'll certainly welcome the option to turn on change tracking, so you can easily see what changes you've made to the document. On bar at the top of the screensy of your Mac click on Edit -> Track Changes. All changes made will be clearly marked and specified in the document.
Toolbar customization
The top part of the Pages application window offers neatly arranged tools that you may need for your work. But not everyone has the same needs, which is why Pages on Mac also gives you the option to customize this bar so that you can choose exactly the tools you need from it. On bar at the top of your Mac screen click on View -> Edit Toolbar. You can easily and quickly change the menu in the toolbar by dragging.
Add your own shapes to the library
Among other things, Pages on Mac is great for working with a variety of preset shapes. As such, the application offers quite a few of these, and you can customize the individual shapes as you wish. If you know that you will use one of these customized shapes more often, you can save it to your library. Enough click on the modified shape with the mouse together with with the Control key pressed and select in the menu Save to My Shapes category.
Gallery
Set a default template
Among the features offered by Pages for Mac is the ability to work with a variety of templates. If you work with one of these templates almost all the time, you can set it as your default in Pages. On the toolbar at the top of your Mac screen, click Pages -> Preferences, in the section A new document tick Use template: Blank, then click on Change the template and select the desired template.
