April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
40h
English
Content preview from iWork '09: The Missing Manual
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Auto-Correction and Text Substitution
Pages offers one final automatic safety net to save you from fat-finger foibles on the keyboard. Auto-correction mends mistakes and applies simple formatting as you type, according to your preferences. For example, it can make sure quotation marks and apostrophes slant in the right direction, capitalize the first word of your sentences, replace “teh” with “the” on the fly, and so on. You give Pages its auto-correction marching orders from the Auto-Correction pane of the Preferences window, as shown in Figure 4-14.
Figure 4-14. To select your auto-correction settings, choose Pages → Preferences and click the Auto-Correction button. Here you can flip the switch on seven categories of auto-correction and add or remove text-substitution rules.
Pages offers you seven categories of auto-correction fixes, and you can turn any of them on or off from this preferences window:
Use smart quotes (” “). Smart quotes (or curly quotes) are curved quotation marks that indicate the beginning or end of a quotation. These brainy beauties offer more typographic elegance and meaning than the straight quotation mark of the typewriter era. With this option enabled, Pages automatically replaces regular up-and-down quotation marks and apostrophes with either an opening or closing mark depending on whether you’re starting or ending a word. When you type a quote before starting ...
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