Take Control of Pages, 3rd Edition

Use and Manage Styles

In a Pages document, a style is a specific collection of format settings. Styles are very powerful: when you apply a style to a selection in a document, all the format settings that constitute the style are applied to the selection at once.

You don’t have to pay attention to styles if you don’t want to, but they’re there if you need them: when you Create a New Document you have to choose a template, and every template includes its own set of styles—even the Blank templates.

Styles give you a powerful mechanism for imposing visual consistency on your documents: when you format your document’s paragraphs, headings, sidebars, charts, diagrams, and illustrations with styles, you ensure that each one of them resembles the others—and ...