Chapter 1. What Are the Common iWork Features That I Need to Know?

What Are the Common iWork Features That I Need to Know?

To help you create documents quickly and easily, the Pages, Keynote, and Numbers applications have many features in common. This chapter shows you not only how to customize the toolbar, add pictures and movies to your documents, choose advanced save options, and make sure your printouts match what you see onscreen but also how to share your documents using Apple's iWork.com online collaboration service and how to protect them with passwords.

Customizing the Toolbar

Adding Your Own Templates to the Template Chooser or Theme Chooser

Choosing Preferences Common to All iWork Applications

Working Efficiently with Text

Giving Your Documents Punch with Photos and Images

Inserting Movies and Sounds

Adding Charts

Working with Objects

Choosing Advanced Save Options

Printing Your Documents

Sharing Your Documents Using iWork.com

Protecting a Document with a Password

Customizing the Toolbar

The toolbar in each iWork application provides a set of widely used buttons, but you'll probably want to customize it so that it contains only the buttons you need most. If your Mac has a wide screen, you can fit extra buttons on the toolbar without sacrificing any of those already there; if it does not, you can remove existing buttons to make way for others.

Which buttons you find most useful will depend on the iWork application and what you spend most time ...

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