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Direct formatting guides, however, are shown for all table and document columns. On the View menu, click Print Layout. On the Standard toolbar, click Show or hide the Toolbox, and then click Styles tab. Do one of the following.
View formatting symbols and layout in a Pages document Formatting symbols (called invisibles) like the ones shown below are added every time you press the Space bar, Tab, or Return, and when you add a column break, page break, or section break. By default, you can’t see them, but you can turn them on to see where formatting changes have been applied. You can hide them again when you don’t need to see them.
You can use Layout View to show the faint gray boxes that outline the different text areas of your document—including headers, footers, columns, text boxes, and the document body (the main area of text in the document). This view can help you troubleshoot layout problems.