How do you use small caps in Pages?

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I don't see any obvious options for small caps in Pages, either under styles or text formatting.  Do I need a special font, or does Pages have small caps capability at all?

Michiel · Accepted Answer

Maybe this link to the documentation of Pages helps you out?

Choose Format > Font > Capitalization and choose an option from the submenu.
  Choose Small Caps to change the text to smaller capitals with larger capitals for uppercase letters

Joshua Goldberg · Answer

"Real" small caps, as noted by @mforbes in the comment on the other answer are available, but only for a small subset of the installed fonts.  (One I found is Avenir.  I was wishing for it in Helvetica Neue.)  As described in this blog post and the comment above, If the feature is available for the font, you can open the OSX Font panel (Cmd-T or Format->Font->Show Fonts... in most apps) and select Typography... under the "gear" menu.  Look especially for Lower Case
As the linked blog post notes, for the Pages app in particular, you can also create and save a "character style" to make it faster to select.  Other than that, this should work the same in any app that uses the standard font panel such as TextEdit, Bean, etc.

How do you use small caps in Pages?

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