Text in Pages document won't italicize

When I highlight text on a Page document, and select 'i' to italicize the text, nothing happens! Can anyone help please?

It tells you in the Fonts panel.
Tahoma has only Normal and Bold, neither in italics.
Many applications fake the italic by making it lean on an angle, but that is not a true italic. Check well designed fonts and you will see the the italic takes on different letterforms.
Peter

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