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iWork '09: The Missing Manual
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iWork '09: The Missing Manual

by Josh Clark
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
888 pages
40h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Typo-Busting Power Tools

The last chapter introduced you to Pages as the faithful transcriber of your words, an able assistant for capturing your ideas and juggling them into presentable shape. Like any good assistant, though, Pages does more than just take down your words—it catalogs them, quietly fixes errors, manages your drafts…and when asked, even offers its opinion about what you’ve written. Pages is reference librarian, proofreader, and project manager rolled into one.

Pages handles these roles by giving you a set of power tools to buzz through the jobs that support your writing: editing, sharing, and gathering feedback. The program’s Find & Replace tool makes short work of sifting through long documents; the built-in dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia help you catch errors or find the perfect word; Pages’ in-house grammarian offers advice for sharpening your writing; and change tracking eases collaboration by keeping up with the edits and comments of multiple authors.

Together, this pit crew of support services adds up to a mean collection of typo busters, protecting you from careless mistakes while helping you find or solicit the right words to get your ideas across. This chapter explores them all.

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