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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 7 Changing Object Properties 153
Note: The Insert menu and the Shapes pop-up menu (in the toolbar) include lines
with arrowheads.
You can set the position of lines and objects in the Metrics Inspector. See “Adjusting
Size and Position of Objects” on page 156.
Adding Shadows
Shadows give your page an appearance of depth. An object’s shadow appears on any
object behind it. You can create a variety of shadow effects, or remove the shadow
from an object.
To create or remove a shadow for an object:
1 Select the object you want to modify.
2 In the Graphic Inspector, select the Shadow checkbox to add a shadow to the object.
Deselect the Shadow checkbox to make the shadow go away.
3 Set the angle for the shadow using the Angle wheel.
4 Adjust the shadow offset by typing a number in the Offset box.
A high shadow offset value makes an object’s shadow appear longer and slightly
separated from the object.
5 Set the shadow blur by typing a number in the Blur box.
A high blur value makes the object’s shadow appear more diffuse; a low value gives
the shadow more sharply defined edges.
Change the shadow color
in the color well.
Select the checkbox to
add a shadow to a
selected object.
Change the angle of the
shadow with the Angle
wheel.
Offset, Blur, and Opacity
values can change the
look of the shadow.