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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
Chapter 6 Working With Graphics and Other Media 139
4 To make the text wrap more tightly around an object with an alpha channel, click the
right Text Fit button. To make it wrap more loosely, click the left Text Fit button.
5 Enter a value in the Extra Space field to specify the minimum space you want to leave
between the object and the surrounding text.
6 If the object has transparent areas (an alpha channel), set the alpha-channel
percentage at which you want the text to appear through the transparency (for an
illustration, see “Working With Alpha-Channel Graphics” on page 136).
Including Sound and Movies
You can add sound, movies, and Flash files to your document if it will be viewed
onscreen as an HTML file or a Pages file. The movie or sound file will play when the
viewer double-clicks its icon on a document page.
Pages accepts any QuickTime or iTunes file type, including the following:
 MOV
 FLASH
 MP3
 MP4
Align object to the left, and
wrap text around the right.
Object is centered
between lines of text.
Align object to the right,
and wrap text around
the left.
Object is aligned left
between lines of text.
Object is aligned right
between lines of text.
Center object, and wrap
text around both sides.