Pages User Guide for Mac
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Touch Bar for Pages on Mac
If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can use familiar gestures — such as tap, swipe and slide — directly on the Touch Bar to edit documents in Pages. Controls on the Touch Bar change depending on what’s selected in your document.
![A keyboard with the Touch Bar above the number keys. Buttons for modifying text are on the left and in the middle. The Control Strip on the right has system controls for brightness, volume and Siri.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5DB779BA0946220B076D092E/5DB779C10946220B076D0943/en_AU/63bb31a1325c424a7fffb308ccff2691.png)
For example, if text is selected, the Touch Bar shows controls for changing the font colour, alignment and other formatting.
![The MacBook Pro Touch Bar with controls for choosing a text style, changing the text colour, changing the text alignment, formatting text as a list, and showing typing suggestions.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5DB779BA0946220B076D092E/5DB779C10946220B076D0943/en_AU/a5b80ff5f493c34110bf6b762c24c310.png)
To format text as a list, tap , then choose an option.
![The MacBook Pro Touch Bar with controls for choosing a list style.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5DB779BA0946220B076D092E/5DB779C10946220B076D0943/en_AU/9572b4a828044fde00b06092d2715af4.png)
To see typing suggestions, tap . Tap
to hide them.
![The MacBook Pro Touch Bar with controls for choosing a text style, hiding typing suggestions and inserting typing suggestions.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5DB779BA0946220B076D092E/5DB779C10946220B076D0943/en_AU/a6fa128652cd5c9d333ff306552c48ba.png)
Show controls for Pages
If you don’t see the controls for editing text and performing other tasks in Pages, turn them on in System Preferences.
At the top-left corner of your screen, choose Apple menu
> System Preferences.
Click Keyboard, then click the Keyboard button.
Click the pop-up menu next to “Touch Bar shows”, then choose App controls.
You can find more information about how to use the Touch Bar in the macOS User Guide.