Can I add Strikethrough to toolbar?

Berthold,

No there is no button you can add. Nor can you create your own.

You would be best using a keyboard shortcut for this.

Currently there isn't one:

http://www.apple.com/support/pages/shortcuts/

But you can add a keyboard shortcut for any menu item in OSX. If you need help doing this, look for previous posts on the subject or I can walk you though it.

Peter

Despite Peter's belief to the contrary, one may customize the toolbar to include the strike-thru style.

Right click on the Pages toolbar and choose "Customize Toolbar...". The second item in the second row is labeled "Character". Drag that icon to the toolbar to have access to bold, strikethrough, and underline character style over-rides.

What need for a button in the Tool Palette when the same feature is always available in the format bar ?



As we are upon character attributes,
is someone able to explain what is the difference between

Emphasis
and
Bold

The only available occurence of "Emphasis" in the User Guide is not related to this feature.

Is one of you able to explain how some Apple contractor was silly enough to translate the English "Outline" with the French "Cadre" ?

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 12 juin 2009 19:16:31)

Yvan,

Emphasis is not the same as bold. Choosing emphasis changes font of selected text to Helvetica Bold, leaving unselected text as is. Even fonts that have bold. Even script! Yuck.

Apparently it's a style.

Walt

Message was edited by: Walt K

Walt K wrote:
Yvan,

Emphasis is not the same as bold. Choosing emphasis changes font of selected text to Helvetica Bold, leaving unselected text as is. Even fonts that have bold. Even script! Yuck.

Apparently it's a style.

Alas, If I select an Helvetica chunk of text and apply "bold", the font switches to Helvetica Bold too.

Same behavior with other fonts.

So I really dont see any difference.

I will look in the Index.xml for see.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 13 juin 2009 11:07:39)

In the Index.xml, I got:

<sf:span sf:style="character-style-0"> Emphasis</sf:span>
this style is described by: (Accentuation is the localized string for Emphasis)

<sf:characterstyle sf:name="Accentuation" sf:ident="character-style-0">
<sf:property-map>
<sf:bold>
<sf:number sfa:number="1" sfa:type="c"/>
</sf:bold>
</sf:property-map>
</sf:characterstyle>

<sf:span sf:style="SFWPCharacterStyle-7"> Bold</sf:span>
this style is described by:

<sf:characterstyle sf:parent-ident="character-style-null" sfa:ID="SFWPCharacterStyle-7">
<sf:property-map>
<sf:bold>
<sf:number sfa:number="1" sfa:type="i"/>
</sf:bold>
</sf:property-map>
</sf:characterstyle>

Of course, I tried to change the type from «i» to «c» and it changed nothing.

They behave the same.

The only true difference is that Emphasis is a named style while _using bold_ doesn’t create a named style.

Studying that, I saw that there is an other way to get Strikethrough: it’s available from the Styles palette and this, like the one in the format bar, apply a named style.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 13 juin 2009 11:27:16)

Wow, the menu moved to the toolbar!

Not exactly what the O.P. or I were thinking of.

P.