Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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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 text capitalization in Pages on Mac
You can set Pages to automatically capitalize words at the beginning of sentences. You can also quickly make selected text all uppercase or lowercase, or format text as a title, with the first letter of each word capitalized.
Capitalize sentences automatically
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Choose Pages > Settings (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen).
Click Auto-Correction at the top of the settings window.
In the Spelling section, select the checkbox next to “Capitalize words automatically.”
This setting applies only to Pages, and not to other applications on your Mac.
Modify capitalization with formatting
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document.
Select the text you want to change, or click where you want to type new text.
To change all of the text in a text box or table cell, select the text box or table cell.
Note: Text typed in uppercase must be transformed to lowercase before formatting. See Modify capitalization with transformations.
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.
In the Font section, click
, then click the Capitalization pop-up menu and choose an option:
None: The text is left as you entered it, with no changes.
All Caps: All text is capitalized at the same height.
Small Caps: All text is capitalized with larger capitals for uppercase letters.
Title Case: The first letter of each word (except for prepositions, articles, and conjunctions) is capitalized—for example, Seven Wonders of the World.
Start Case: The first letter of each word is capitalized—for example, Seven Wonders Of The World.
Modify capitalization with transformations
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document.
Select the text you want to change, then choose Edit > Transformations (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).
Choose an option to format selected text in all uppercase or all lowercase, or to capitalize the first letter of each word.