Apple numbers User Manual

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Chapter 7   
 Working with Text
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Changing Text Capitalization Using the Menus
You can quickly make blocks of text all uppercase or lowercase, or format text as a title.
To change text capitalization: 
1
Select the text you want to change, or click where you want to type new text.
2
Choose Format > Font > Capitalization and choose an option from the submenu.
Choose All Caps to change the text to capitals.
Choose Small Caps to change the text to smaller capitals with larger capitals for 
uppercase letters.
Choose Title to change the text to a title format, which capitalizes the first letter of each 
word.
Choose None to change text from all capitals to initial caps. Uppercase characters, such 
as the first word of each sentence, are capitals but the rest are lowercase.
Using the Font Panel to Format Text
The Mac OS X Font panel gives you access to all the fonts installed on your computer. It 
provides a preview of the available typefaces (such as bold and italic) and sizes for each 
font. The buttons in the Font panel let you add underlines, strikethrough lines, color, 
and shadow to text. You can even change the background page color in the Font 
panel.
For information on installing fonts, creating and managing font collections, or 
troubleshooting font-related issues, see Mac Help.
To open the Font panel:
m
Click Fonts in the toolbar.
Preview the selected typeface (you 
might need to choose Show Preview 
from the Action menu).
Select a typeface to 
apply to selected text in 
your document.
Select a font size to apply to 
selected text in your document.
The Action menu
Create interesting
text effects using these
pop-up menus.
Find fonts by typing a font 
name in the search field.
Apply a shadow to selected 
text. Modify the shadow 
using the opacity, blur, 
offset, and angle controls.