#Paintbrush mac for free#
#Paintbrush mac mac#

AppleвЂ™s pre-created styles may not be quite what you need, but when that document is opened elsewhere the Style information means the document can automatically and quickly be converted to house style. Use StylesДo you set headline font size and other in-text features manually? Please stop doing this and use Styles (iOS: Paintbrush>Text Mac: Paintbrush).

#Paintbrush mac mac#

On a Mac you can enable this feature in the Edit menu. Those three dots at the top right of the Pages window are your route to a host of other useful tools, including the Track Changes item. ItвЂ™s also worth tapping the word count item as you can then access a bunch of other information, including character count. One more thing: You can move the Word Count item around the screen using your cursor. On iOS you should tap the three dots at top right of the window to access the More menu, where you toggle Word Count to on (green). To do so when working in Pages you need to choose File>View>Show Word Count (Mac).

YouвЂ™ll be taken to a new menu where you can change font size, case, ligatures, and more.

On iOS you should select the text whose case you want to change, tap the paintbrush icon, scroll down to the Bold, Itallic, Underline commands and tap the three dots.

On a Mac you achieve this using the Edit>Transformations Menu item.

You can easily switch selected text between cases (upper case, lower case, capitalized: You can also select Link in the contextual menu around the selected text.

On iOS you will get to the insert link tool via the Paragraph (a reverse P) item from top right of the keyboard.

On a Mac select the Insert item in the tool bar and choose Link from the dropdown menu.

Select the word or words you want to add a link too I remember that when I first started using Pages the process of inserting a hyperlink wasnвЂ™t that easy to find, so I thought IвЂ™d share it here:

#Paintbrush mac for free#

AppleвЂ™s iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) are now available for free to any Mac or iOS user, so I thought it might be good to document some of the lesser known talents of AppleвЂ™s now-free word processor app.