Zooming in on a Pages document

I've been using Word for so long, I'm having a little difficulty adapting to Pages. I like the Word ability to make the document larger by percentage so, that while I'm working in, for example size 12 font, I can see the document far better at 150% instead of at 100%. It appears in Pages that I must click the Apple tab along with the > sign to make the document larger. However, nothing happens. I would appreciate any help with this.

In the French version, the menu display these shortcuts:
cmd <
cmd >
which means press the command key plus the keys issuing the characters < or >
So we get zoom in pressing cmd + the key marked < and >
we get zoom out pressing cmd + shift + the key marked < and >
This scheme is the one used when a key has two characters printed on it
+, -, ., ;, :, /, ?, =, *, %, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, &, ", ', (, §, !, ), $
or when the wanted character isn't displayed.
{, }, |
Maybe I forgot some of them.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 15 octobre 2010 12:25:13

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