How do I see what Fonts look like?

I have been using Appleworks for the past 8 years and I am switching over to Pages. I miss the simplicity of the word processing tool bar of Appleworks particularly, the font selector which I was able to quickly see what the fonts looked like. Is there an easy way to replicate this with Pages or do I need to open up the FontBook and just use that?
Thom

Hi Thom
To see what the font looks like go to Format - Font - show fonts. This gives you the font window. At the bottom left hand corner of the font menu there is a +, - and a flag keys. Click on the flag key and choose 'show preview'. A window comes up above the menu with sample of font chosen.
Welcome to Pages,
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