Shortcut For Font Color Word Mac Os

Is there a way to do this without having to stop, change font color, type word, change font color BACK, then type on until next targeted word is.

HI i'm switching today from microsoft word for the mac to pages and i've been hunting for some of the things that were easy to do in word but i can't find, even trying the help system, how to do them in pages. I apologize if these questions have been answered already 100 times, but couldn't find out how to search the previously asked questions in this forum without going through each page (sorry, i'm 61 and not totally computer literate yet) Question 1).

How do i create new keyboard shortcuts? How do i modify the toolbar, not the one on top that has charts etc on it, but the one under it that has fonts and line spacings etc.

I would like to add a button that allows me to easily change the spacing between paragraphs, and another that I can click for the 'symbol' font. Is there a way to drag the font color menu down so that it stays open?

Thank you all for your time and patience cheers polly. Motherghost wrote: Question 1). How do i create new keyboard shortcuts? You read the System's Help which states: *+Creating keyboard shortcuts for applications+* +You can assign your own keyboard shortcuts to menu commands in any Mac OS X application or in the Finder. This may be useful if, for example, one of the 'global' shortcuts, which works the same in most applications, is used by one application for a different purpose. In this case, you can assign it a different key combination.+ +Note: You can create keyboard shortcuts only for existing menu commands.

You cannot define keyboard shortcuts for general purpose tasks such as opening an application or switching between applications.+ +Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Keyboard & Mouse. Then click Keyboard Shortcuts.+ +Click the Add ➕ button.+ +Choose an application from the Application pop-up menu. If you want to set the same key combination for a menu command that appears in many applications, choose All Applications.+ +If the application you want to select does not appear in the list, choose Other and locate the application using the Open dialog.

Some applications may not allow you to set keyboard shortcuts.+ +Type the menu command for which you want to set a keyboard shortcut in the Menu Title field.+ +You must type the command exactly as it appears in the application menu, including ellipses and any other punctuation. (An ellipsis is a special character that looks like three periods. To type an ellipsis, you can press Option-semicolon (;).

Or use the Character Palette. Correction: Creating and modifying keyboard shortcuts in OSX is done in System Preferences: +Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > click on the plus button under the window > Application*: Pages > Menu Title: > Keyboard Shortcut > Add+ You used to need to restart the application and the keyboard would then be shown next to the menu item. That has changed either in OSX 10.5.6 or in iWork '09 because it now updates immediately. NB re Application* Neither iWork or Pages will appear in the proffered list. You will need to choose Other and go find it in the Applications folder.

Hi thank you for the assistance with the keyboard. Now why do you say 'happily' we can't put new buttons on the format toolbar? Wine for mac best. There are two reasons this would be nice. 1) it would be faster to have a button, for something that a person needs often, than pulling down the inspector and finding the right page on it. 2) i have an 11 inch screen and keeping the inspector open on it takes up a lot of space. Having the ability to customize the format toolbar would be REALLY NICE!!

Thank you for the advice on the font color. But that isn't what i wanted. I wanted the whole menu of little colored squares, or, lacking that, a way to click somewhere quickly or use a keyboard stroke to switch to the color i had last used. When using microsoft word, it is possible to create a keystroke that switches the color of the font to the one that was last used.