Aligning text in Pages '09

On Pages is there any way i could stretch out the text to be perfect on each side in length? Like you see on Microsoft Office.
I need this tool to make perfect alignments ,so that the text doesn't gets out of line but all in parallel with every line
Thanks

Use the icon in the format bar or in the text inspector (highlighted in this screenshot). It's also available in the menu bar - Format > Text > Justify.

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    I need advice on the best way to highlight text in Pages 4 and 5:
    I use and prefer Pages 4.3. Yes, I have Pages 5.2, and I find that using it good for some things (dictating into a document), but not so good for others - highlighting text.
    For example, I read tons of documents and like to make notes, comments and especially highlight text according to a color-code scheme that I have used for years.
    For those who use Word, this process of highlighting text is pretty straight-forward:
    You highlight your text and then simply click your highlight box on the Word toolbar (choose a default color, usually yellow) and you're done. If you need to use another color, just use the pull-down, as seen above. The drawback in Word - no Orange, or sectrum option.
    But let's face it - Word as a program is just too much. As someone who has used every word processing program under the sun, I find Pages excellent. It does what I need.
    However, I find highlighting text in Pages clumsy. Here's what I need to do to highlight text in Pages 4.3:
    Go to your toolbar, and then choose a highlight/background color. It's more labor intensive then Word, above, but you do have the option of more colors.
    Then there's this method, where basically you get to simply use yellow as your color:
    IMHO both are clumsy methods compared to Word, but have become even more so in Pages 5.2....
    Lots of clicks to achieve simple color highlights.
    Am I missing something, or is there a simpler way, in either Pages 4 or Pages 5, to achieve the above results???
    Any suggestions appreciated!

    Dear VikingOSX:
    As Ed MacMahon once said (before your time?) re Pages 5 Character Fill Color: "You are correct, sir!!"
    The gear icon IS where the function that I'm talking about is located. Still, it's annoying.
    Q: Why?
    A: Because from a work-flow perspective as someone who is highlighting it makes no sense. We in the Western world read and write from top to bottom, left to right. Making a mark on a doc should follow the same flow.
    You should not have to keep looking over to the right side of the doc to find your function. Logically it should be at the top (e.g., toolbar), on the left, or perhaps some contextual pop-up option.
    Furthermore, it's more "labor intensive" from this point of view: In Word, once you set the color (which, granted, you may need to change from time to time IF you, like me, use multiple colors as part of your highlighting workflow), you just click the box after highlighting the text - 1 click vs 2, and possibly 3.
    The "richer color" part of my comment was just to note that a flaw, in my view, of Word's basic scheme is that:
    1) It lacks an Orange. And we've all used an Orange highlighter at somepoint, right? Or perhaps, you were like me in High School and threw them instead. But you get the point...and
    2) Having a wider pallatte available as an option - which you do in Apple's scheme - is nice. I use color coding/highlighting to make notes and save time. The colors tell me what's important, what's next important, key terms, etc. Also, for example, if I wanted to outline my highlighting notes, the color scheme (which has a heirarchy based on color, right?) allows me to do this quickly because it's already there.
    As for the Dictation function working on Pages '09/4.3 - again, you are correct, sir! And that's great to know. I had tried to use it before when the new Pages 5 (hitting fn twice on Pages 4.3) but it didn't activate. I tried it after reading your response and Bingo! It's Alive! So thanks for that tip.
    Your keyboard shortcut scheme is an interesting idea, and I may try it as an experiment. My intuition is that it will not work as straight-forwardly as Word's toolbar pull-down will, but I might be wrong. We'll see.
    And yes, I do use Pages '09 (4.3) instead of Pages 5 for exactly this reason (see my discussion)
    Great reply! Thanks!

  • How can I insert text in Pages so it flows to the next page?

    I try copying a block of text into Pages but it cuts off at the end of the page instead of flowing to the next page. How do I fix this?

    You have probably started with a Layout mode template instead of a Word Processing template. See the sidebar in the Template Chooser for which is which.
    Alternatively you may have pasted an object (possibly from the Internet), not text into a Word Processing template. Click inside the object and copy the text, then delete the object and try pasting again.
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  • How do you Blackout texts in Pages?

    How would you blackout text in Pages ? almost like white out but obviously in black.
    OS X Yosemite 10.10
    Pages-5.5

    Follow these steps for Pages v5.2.2 (v5.5.1 in Yosemite).
    Quit Pages
    System Preferences > General > Disable Use LCD font smoothing when available
    Open your document in Pages
    Select the text to black out. (assumption: your text is black)Advanced Options (gear icon adjacent to underline in Styles panel)Character fill color is black
    Click elsewhere in the document to deselect, and reveal the now redacted text.

  • How do I place text from Pages in InDesign

    How do I place text from Pages in InDesign?

    You will need to export the text from Indesign as either .rtf or .doc files and import those.
    You can also cut and paste but I assume you have already tried these options and are not happy with the result, but haven't said why.
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  • How do I highlight text in Pages?

    How do I highlight text in Pages - none of the menus, nor the 'Help' function seems to help...

    It's tough searching for something when you can't guess the terms to use. It's called a "background color." You can choose a color from the format bar.

  • When printing to Adobe PDF from Microsoft Publisher, the text on page 2 is not 100% black

    Hi there
    I'm using Microsoft Publisher 2013 to print to an Adobe PDF file (I have a trial version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.)
    I sent the PDF to my printing house but they can't print it because the text on page 2 is not 100% black. In Publisher, the text colour on both pages is CMYK 0/0/0/100.
    I created a test file in which I copied the text from page 1 onto page 2 so both pages are identical. However, the PDF created from that file, when I click Print Production, Output Preview and de-select Process Black, all the text on page 1 disappears (as expected) but none of the text on page 2 disappears! It seems that Publisher and/or Acrobat is printing the text on page 1 correctly but not page 2. Does anyone know why? Am I doing something wrong?
    Here's a link to the two files: Dropbox - ShareAdobeComm
    Would much appreciate some help if anybody can please point me in the right direction. Thank you.
    (I'm seriously evaluating upgrading from my current 3rd party PDF writer to Adobe.)

    Do not use the PDF Maker, but print to the Adobe PDF printer and see if that meets you need. If you need some of the tools of PDF Maker, then turn on only those you need, not them all. Check to be sure that the graphics are indeed being downsampled and possibly go back and reduce the graphics you have in the WORD file so that you are at least not using millions of colors, 256 max. Also consider using straight B&W if color is not needed, or at least gray-scale.

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