Drag one of the buttons off the bottom of the screen and-really!-onto the Touch Bar, where you can drag it into different spots. A selection of available buttons appears at the bottom of the screen. In apps that allow this, choose View > Customize Touch Bar. Select a table, and Pages immediately offers options for adding and removing columns and rows.Įven better, some apps, like Safari, let you pick which buttons appear in the Touch Bar, just as you can pick the controls that appear in window toolbars.
But if you have a text box selected, Pages instead provides buttons for opacity, various colors, and line strokes. That button on the far right displays auto-complete options for the word you’re typing. If you’re working with text, Pages configures the Touch Bar to show buttons that let you switch between paragraph styles, apply character formatting, and tweak horizontal and vertical justification. Customize App ControlsĪpp controls are in many ways the most interesting because they change not just when you switch between apps, but also based on what you’re doing in an app. One useful approach is to disable the Control Strip in general use, but show the expanded Control Strip when you press Fn. If you want to take over its space on the right side of the Touch Bar for other buttons, deselect the checkbox. The Press Fn Key To menu basically gives you a second choice-press that key, and you can display whatever set of buttons you’d find next most useful.įinally, notice that there’s a checkbox for Show Control Strip. That’s probably either App Controls or F-keys for most people, unless you do a lot of your own automation (choose Quick Actions) or regularly use full-screen apps (choose Spaces). In the Touch Bar Shows pop-up menu, you should choose the set of Touch Bar buttons that you’ll find the most useful most of the time. Spaces: Those who are big users of Spaces in Mission Control might appreciate this option, which lets you switch between different full-screen apps and Split View spaces.Quick Actions: Want to create your own custom buttons for the Touch Bar? In Apple’s Automator app, you can create workflows as Quick Actions, which then appear on the Touch Bar when you choose this option.
People often use these keys as hot keys with macro programs like Keyboard Maestro. Keys: Aimed at keyboard traditionalists, this option mimics the F-keys that occupy the Touch Bar’s position on every other keyboard in the universe. The Expanded Control Strip option fills the rest of the Touch Bar with more buttons.