Boxes around individual words or letters

Hi. I am currently working on my first project in Pages. I am writing some documentation on using Audacity and iTunes to record and organize audio. To show key sequences, I want to have a small square or rectangle with rounded corners around individual letters or words to show that it is a button to press. For example, for a ctrl+x sequence, I want to display a small box around "ctrl" and "x". Is there any way to do this in Pages '08?
jorj

I had played with this before. Looking at it again, I got halfway close to what I want. Before, when I make the object small enough, the corners stayed too rounded and essentially made a small circle. This time, I noticed a small circle control to grab in the upper left when the object is selected. This little circle lets you tweak how rounded or sharp the corners are.
The only remaining problem is that the inner margins of the box are too generous. I put a character in it, but when I shrink it down to fit in line with the other text, the character disappears. Is there a way to lessen the inner margins in a shape so the text is right up to the walls?
EDIT: Ok, disregard that last paragraph - I think I figured it out. With the shape object selected goto Text Inspector->Text and slide the Inset Margin to the far left. Thanks a bunch for pointing me in the right direction!
jorj
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