Note: You can’t change this setting for a shared document.Ĭhoose File > Advanced > Language & Region (from the File menu at the top of your screen). To see examples of the formatting differences, click the language in the message. When you view a document that uses a language and formatting different from your computer’s, a message near the bottom of the document indicates which formatting is used. When you choose a new language, the template titles and text and some of the formatting controls change to reflect that language. Open Pages, then hold down the Option key and choose File > New (from the File menu at the top of your screen).Ĭlick the Language pop-up menu in the bottom-left corner of the template chooser, then choose another language.ĭouble-click the template you want to use. This language setting affects only the current document. You might want to do this if you plan to share the document with someone in another region.įor example, some regions use commas instead of periods to indicate decimal points, or different monetary symbols for currency, or they display numbers from right to left instead of left to right. When you create a new document, you can automatically format numbers, dates, times, and currency in tables and charts using the formatting conventions of a specific language and region. For example, if you switch the input source from English to Hebrew, the insertion point moves to the right side of the document. If you switch to a language written in a direction different from the current language, the insertion point moves to the side of the document used by the new language. To switch to the other keyboard, click the Input menu on the right side of the menu bar, then choose a keyboard. If Pages is open, quit Pages and reopen it so that it recognizes the source. Select the checkbox next to “Show Input menu in menu bar.”įor more information about input sources, click Help in the menu at the top of your screen, then search for “input sources.” On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources.Ĭlick at the bottom of the left column, choose the keyboard you want to use, then click Add. When you add a language-specific keyboard to your device, that language is also added to your device’s preferred language list. To use another language in your document, first set up an input source (for example, a language-specific keyboard or character palette) for the language. If you can’t remove something from a document.
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