Pages (iWork09) question

Recently got my hands on iWork '09 for my 13" MBP and am slowly but surely learning how to create the same kinds of documents in Pages that I have been creating in Microsoft Publisher '07.

One small question though-how do I make the text I type out actually show up as italicized on screen?

When I'm typing something out, up in the format bar, the only option I have to format my text is underline (the Bold & Italic options are greyed out). I can go to Format > Font and do it that way, but it still appears normal as I type. I should mention that the font I'm using is Century Gothic. Any other font has all three options available, but I have to go to the Format menu for this specific one.....

 

Have you tried highlighting the desired text and using cmd+I?

 

Yeah I did.

I should apologize too, because after doing some digging I found that only the 'regular' version of Century Gothic was included with OS X (not the specialized bold & italicized versions) and that was pretty much at the root of my problem.

To fix it, I just copied the versions I wanted from the fonts folder on my desktop over to my MBP and installed them from there.