iWork '09: The Missing Manual

Document Formatting

The overall layout of an individual page—and the entire document—depends on what’s known as document formatting. This high-level formatting determines the handling of things like your document’s page margins, hyphenation, and footnotes.

To change document formatting, use the Document Inspector (Figure 5-1). Choose View → Show Inspector or click the toolbar’s Inspector button to open the Inspector window. Click the first button (the blank-page icon) in the Inspector’s toolbar to open the Document Inspector. The first of the three tabs—labeled Document—is where you’ll find most of the action.

Figure 5-1. The Document Inspector’s Document tab lets you change the overall layout of your document—page size, margins, and footnote style. This is also where you’ll find the master switches for auto-hyphenation, ligatures, and password protection.

Password-Protecting Your Document

Is your document top secret? Classified? For your eyes only? Whether you’re working with state secrets or ordering your wife’s birthday present, you can slap a padlock on your document by requiring a password to open it. Turn on the Document Inspector’s “Require password to open” checkbox, and Pages prompts you to enter and verify the password for the file. You can also enter an optional password hint in case you forget that your password is the name of your kindergarten teacher. Click the key icon ...