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Pages User Guide for iPad
Welcome
What’s new
Pages basics
Get started with Pages
Word processing or page layout?
Intro to images, charts and other objects
Create documents and books
Create a document
Intro to creating a book
Use templates
Find a document
Open a document
Save and name a document
Print a document or envelope
Work in Pages
Undo or redo changes
Prevent accidental editing
Quick navigation
Intro to formatting symbols
Show or hide the ruler
View pages side by side
View an optimised version of your document
Copy text and objects between apps
Basic touchscreen gestures
Use Apple Pencil with Pages
Customise the toolbar
Use VoiceOver with Pages
Create a document using VoiceOver
Use VoiceOver to preview comments and track changes
Add text
Select text
Add and replace text
Copy and paste text
Use mail merge
Add, change or delete a merge field
Manage sender information
Add, change or delete a source file in Pages on iPad
Populate and create customised documents
Enter text in another language
Format a document for another language
Use phonetic guides
Use bidirectional text
Use vertical text
Add the date and time
Add mathematical equations
Bookmarks and links
Add links
Format text
Change the look of text
Set a default font
Change text capitalisation
Use text styles
Copy and paste text styles
Format characters and punctuation
Format fractions automatically
Ligatures
Add drop caps
Make characters superscript or subscript
Format Chinese, Japanese or Korean text
Format dashes and quotation marks
Align and space text
Set line and paragraph spacing
Set paragraph margins
Format lists
Set tab stops
Align and justify text
Add line and page breaks
Format columns of text
Link text boxes
Add borders and rules (lines)
Format documents
Set paper size and orientation
Set document margins
Set up facing pages
Page templates
Add and manage pages and sections
Add pages
Add and format sections
Rearrange pages or sections
Duplicate pages or sections
Delete pages or sections
Document parts
Table of contents
Footnotes and endnotes
Headers and footers
Add page numbers
Change the page background
Add a border around a page
Add watermarks and background objects
Add images, shapes and media
Images
Add an image
Add an image gallery
Edit an image
Shapes
Add and edit a shape
Combine or break apart shapes
Save a shape to the shapes library
Add and align text inside a shape
Add 3D objects
Add lines and arrows
Add and edit drawings
Video and audio
Add video and audio
Record video and audio
Edit video and audio
Set the movie format
Position and style objects
Position objects on a page
Position and align objects
Place objects with text
Use alignment guides
Layer, group and lock objects
Change the transparency of an object
Fill shapes and text boxes with colour or an image
Add a border to an object
Add a caption or title
Add a reflection or shadow
Use object styles
Resize, rotate and flip objects
Add tables
Create and style tables
Add or delete a table
Select tables, cells, rows and columns
Add or change table rows and columns
Add or remove table rows and columns
Move table rows and columns
Resize table rows and columns
Merge or unmerge table cells
Change how a table looks
Change the look of table text
Show, hide or edit a table title
Change table gridlines and colours
Use table styles
Resize, move or lock a table
Add and organise table data
Add and edit cell content
Work with different types of data
Format dates, currency and more
Format tables for bidirectional text
Highlight cells conditionally
Alphabetise or sort table data
Create and modify charts
Add or delete a chart
Add or delete a chart
Change a chart from one type to another
Modify chart data
Move, resize and rotate a chart
Change the look of a chart
Change the look of data series
Add a legend, gridlines and other markings
Change the look of chart text and labels
Add a border and background to a chart
Use chart styles
Use writing and editing tools
Check spelling
Look up words
Find and replace text
Replace text automatically
Show word count and other statistics
Annotate a document
Set your author name for comments
Highlight text
Add and print comments
Track changes
Share and collaborate
Send a document
Publish a book to Apple Books
Collaborate with others
Intro to collaboration
Invite others to collaborate
Collaborate on a shared document
See the latest activity in a shared document
Change a shared document’s settings
Stop sharing a document
Shared folders and collaboration
Use Box to collaborate
Use presenter mode
Manage and organise documents
Use iCloud Drive with Pages
Export to Word, PDF or another file format
Restore an earlier version of a document
Move a document
Delete a document
Password-protect a document
Create and manage custom templates
Transfer documents between devices
Transfer documents with AirDrop
Transfer documents with Handoff
Transfer documents with the Finder
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcut symbols
Copyright
You can undo recent changes you make to a document, then redo them if you change your mind.
Go to the Pages app on your iPad.
Open a document, make any edits, then do one of the following, as necessary:
Undo the last action: Tap . Tap multiple times to undo all your recent actions. You can also use a three-finger swipe to the left to undo an action.
Redo the last action: Touch and hold , then tap Redo. Perform these steps multiple times to redo all your recent actions. You can also use a three-finger swipe to the right to redo an action.
If you want to delete all the changes you made since you opened a document, you can restore the document to its state when you opened it.
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on your iPad.
. Tap multiple times to undo all your recent actions. You can also use a three-finger swipe to the left to undo an action.