Format Bar Kluge

So... am I the only one whose format bar in all of the iWork apps seems to be missing something? What surprises me most is that the toolbar is not missing it.
If you haven't guessed already, I'm referring to how when a window is sized narrower than the items on the toolbar, it allows access to the unseen items, while the format bar shows only ellipses but offers no drawer or pulldown menu. Instead, in order to access these items I must resize the window. And this is most disappointing because I love iWork most for its clean look and simplicity, yet to have access to the entire format bar I must resize the window to wider than my word processing page. Granted this is not a major issue, but it seems too obvious a mistake not to have corrected in an update.... Am I missing something??

Jeff
Yes this has been noticed before.
It is on the wish list here:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=129&postdays=0&posto rder=asc&start=15&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Maybe I'm a bit more critical of Pages than you.
I could go into great length about Pages lack of simplicity and often silly and inconsistent GUI.
Peter

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