Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new in Pages 14.1
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- Use iCloud Drive with Pages
- Export to Word, PDF or another file format
- Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
- Reduce the document file size
- Save a large document as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a document
- Move a document
- Delete a document
- Lock a document
- Password-protect a document
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Change the font or font size in Pages on Mac
You can change the font and font size of text and replace a font everywhere it occurs in your document.
Note: To change the default font used for new documents, see Set a default font.
Change the font or font size
Select the text you want to change.
To change all the text in a text box or table cell, select the text box or table cell.
In the Format
sidebar, click the Style button near the top.If the text is in a text box, table or shape, first click the Text tab at the top of the sidebar, then click the Style button.
Click the Font pop-up menu, then choose a font.
Click the small arrows to the right of the font size to make the font larger or smaller.
Tip: You can add buttons to the toolbar for changing the font and making selected text bigger or smaller.
Replace fonts
To change a font everywhere it occurs in your document, you can replace it with another font.
Choose Format > Font > Replace Fonts (from the Format menu at the top of the screen).
Click the double arrows to the right of the font you want to replace, then choose a replacement.
If the font is listed as a missing font, also choose a typeface.
Click Replace Fonts.
The font is replaced everywhere it occurs. The replacement font uses the same size and weight as the font it replaces.
When you open a document that uses fonts not installed on your computer, a missing font notification appears briefly at the top of the page. To replace the missing font, click the notification.
If you have the missing font and want to install it on your computer, use Font Book, available in the Applications folder on your Mac (see the Font Book User Guide for instructions).
If you choose a replacement font for the document, then later install the missing font, your document continues to use the replacement font until you replace it with the font you installed.