The Next Step

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the next step

While this Visual QuickProject Guide gives you a good start on designing materials for an organization, there is much more that can be learned.

If you want to learn to create presentations using Keynote, the other application in the iWork suite, try Creating Keynote Presentations with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide , by Tom Negrino. It features friendly, step-by-step instructions and large, full- color screen shots that guide you through the process of building all the components of a basic presentation.

If you want to hone your design skills to create more professional, organized, unified, and interesting documents try The Non-Designer's Design Book , by Robin Williams. This great book was written "for all the people who now need to design pages, but who have no background or formal training in design."

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Chapter 1. create your stationery

The first document we'll create for our neighborhood association is a letterhead with our logo, contact information, and a list of officers. We'll save the letterhead as a template that can be used for all of our official communications. In the process we'll learn how to use many of the most basic functions in Pages. We'll learn to:

Use a Pages pre-fab Template as a base for our document.

Place and resize graphic images.

Make basic text format changes like bold and italic.

Import text from an external file.

Create, apply, and modify text Styles .

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open a pages template

We'll begin by creating a new document built on a Pages template that we can customize and make our own.

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enter and format text

In Pages, you'll work with two types of text— body text which flows from page to page and fixed text which is contained in text boxes that you place and size as you like. (See extra bits on Page 20.)

With the text customized, let's make a change to some of the formatting. Let's remove the bold setting from the T and F that precede the telephone and fax numbers .

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modify a text style

Text styles allow you to create different appearances for different types of text and use them consistently throughout your document. There are three types of text styles in Pages— paragraph, character , and list . In this step, we'll modify an existing paragraph style. (See extra bits on Page 21.)