Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Use iCloud Drive with Pages
- Export to Word, PDF, or another file format
- Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
- Reduce the document file size
- Save a large document as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a document
- Move a document
- Delete a document
- Lock a document
- Password-protect a document
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Create, rename, or delete a paragraph style in Pages on Mac
You can add your own paragraph styles, rename existing styles, and delete styles you don’t want to keep. Any changes you make to styles affect the current document only, not all documents you create using Pages.
Note: You can’t add, rename, or delete a paragraph style in a document shared with others.
Create a paragraph style
To add a new style, you first modify the text of a paragraph in your document to look the way you want, then create the new style based on that text.
Select the text you want to modify, then make your formatting changes.
When you’re finished, click anywhere in the modified text.
In the Format
sidebar, click the paragraph style name at the top of the sidebar.Click
at the top of the Paragraph Styles menu.A new style with a placeholder name appears in the menu.
Type a name for the new style, then click outside the menu to close it.
Rename a paragraph style
Click a paragraph that uses the style you want to rename.
In the Format
sidebar, click the paragraph style name near the top, move the pointer over the style name you want to change, then click the arrow that appears.If the text is in a text box, table, or shape, first click the Text tab at the top of the sidebar to see paragraph styles.
Choose Rename Style, then enter a new name.
Delete a paragraph style
You can delete a style from the paragraph styles list. You might want to do this to simplify the pop-up menu to include just the styles you use most.
Click anywhere in your document text.
In the Format
sidebar, click the paragraph style name near the top.If the text is in a text box, table, or shape, first click the Text tab at the top of the sidebar to see paragraph styles.
In the Paragraph Styles menu, move the pointer over the name of the style you want to delete, then click the arrow that appears and choose Delete Style.
If you try to delete a style that’s being used in the document, you’re asked to choose a style to replace the one you’re deleting.
Tip: You can drag styles in the Paragraph Styles menu to organize them.