Internal pages for Mac - how to get the maximum return on the best tool for writing Apple

Pages for Mac look naked, but offers you options when you need them

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This is an exaggeration, but in general, Microsoft Word wants you to be impressed by all its functions and MDash; While Apple Pages wants you to continue to write a layout. Thus, pages are removed from your path, and so good that it has an unexpected side effect.

, since you cannot see the ribbon toolbar with dozens of options, and since the menu do not move with a choice, you may think that the pages have no functions. This is still the case when Microsoft Word has more, but Pages is replete with functions that are at a distance at a distance.

Creating a document of New Pages

This is one part when the desire of Apple pays for simplicity. The launch pages, and you will immediately get an open dialogue, which includes the new button “” .

click on this, and a new document is opened, ready for you.

Pages are also delivered with templates that are pre-designed documents that are well laid out for you to write business letters, resume, information ballot and so on. However, it is impossible to choose one of them when you launch pages.

pages are supplied in documents overflowing with templates

instead you must open pages, and then select the file, new … . This gives you a large dialogue with so many templates.

, however, that you will use only one or two of these & mdash; If you use at all. Thus, this can quickly become pain, the necessary to scroll through the template before you can start writing.

, what can you do, however:

On the pages, select pages, settings
make sure that the tab
for for new documents

. Use the template

This last part sounds incorrectly & mdash; You do not need to choose a template. But all the documents of the pages begin with the template, just one of them is a completely empty document.

Therefore, you click to enable to use the template , and then the button … becomes active. Find the Blank or any other that you usually want to write, and then click Select .

From the present moment when you launch a new page of pages, it will be this template immediately, and you no longer have to see the choice of a long template again.

, if you do not want.

to briefly use it, go to the file menu and hold the option key. Regular New The menu changes to a new one from the choice template … .

Opening documents

Pages open and save the documents in the same way as any other Mac & MDash application; But there are wrinkles that are especially useful, and especially when you are dealing with Word documents.

to open a pages document, you can:

Twice to click the document

Dip it on the pages icon in the dock

use the file open from the inside

twice click the Word document, and with the exception of one specific case, it will also automatically open on the pages. The only specific case when this is not so, when you already have a word on your Mac, and in this case it is an application that will open.

This is true, even if you no longer sign Word, but you still have an application on your Mac. You cannot edit it, but you can still read it with a word, so this is the application that you get.

Select only one document, and through receiving information, you can say that you want all documents of this type to be open to the pages

, if you need to save the word for any reason, you can configure the Mac to ignore it and open all such documents on the pages when you are double. Find one Word document in Finder, click once to select it, then click Command-I (I for information) or select the file, go to .

In the lower part of the emerging information panel there is a section with . He will say “Microsoft Word (by default), but it says that in the opening menu in which each application for Mac is listed, which, apparently, can open this file.

there is one annoying thing. Every time you open the Word document on the pages, you often get a pop -up window.

The opening of the Word document on the pages almost always gives you the upper pop-up window, or sometimes the entire dialog box

that the pop-up window will say that there are no fonts in the document, or it may say that it will simply look different. You cannot stop the pages, showing you this, you just need to either reject a pop -up window every time, or wait until he decides to leave on his own.

You can use a pop-up window to find font replacements for that there is no. But believe me, when you had to read a hundred verbal documents for research, you will want to demolish this damned pop -up window from the screen.

Preservation of documents

There are only a pair of things that should be noted about the preservation of documents, and some of them are another example of how Apple is so trying to make things simple that it becomes a problem. It is also contradictory, but at least often if you create a new document and select the file, save , you get minimalist preservation as a dialogue.

shows you a place for the title that you can edit. It includes a section for tags, which you probably ignore. And then there is a section , where , in which one place is listed, for example, a desktop computer.

This is another revealing menu, and when you click on it, Pages shows you that there may be a rather long list of folders on your Mac. But you can be sure that it does not include the folder in which you want to save this new document.

this also never gives you the opportunity to create a new folder to preserve it.

Instead, click on a small arrow down next to the section, where . He changes the entire dialog box in a full, ordinary one, which allows you to move along your Mac.

and this includes a new folder .

note that every time you save the document on the pages, it will be saved in pages format. So, if, for example, you have opened a file of words and want to save it in this format, you need:

Select the “File”, exports to …
Select Word … from the menu “/Li>
Save …
Then go in the “Save” dialog box to decide where to save it

does not require a password if you do not need. This will definitely annoy your recipient using the words, but this is also another possible moment of failure.

More than a decade of exports from pages in Word, I made a mistake, only once. I suspect that my recipient did not really use the word, I think that they used one of the free equivalents such as LibreOffice, but they still could not open the word document that I sent them.

Keep it simple, miss the password parameters, and you reduce the number of things that may go incorrectly to exchange Word documents on the pages.

That's why I will always go through this process of preserving the word document on my Mac, and then send it. You can just share the document directly from page Send a copy … vary depending on which applications you have on your Mac. But in each case, the pages create the word document, and then sends it by mail or everywhere.

It sounds good, and it can be good. But as a result, your recipient receives a word document & mdash; And you are not.

Despite the fact that this requires some manual efforts and discipline, it is better to make a copy of the word of the document that you sent them. I will create a folder that I call TX and save the sent documents there.

During export to the format of words (or others), you can maintain a step by sending a new document to someone directly

this means that when they lose the document, you can quickly send them a copy of them and do not need to think about whether you have made any further changes to Pages.

duplicate against preservation as

for the first time you go to maintain new Document, you get the “Save as” dialog box instead of preservation. These are identical words “save as” instead of “saving”, so you may not even notice the difference.

, but if you used Macs for a long time, seeing the words “preservation as” can even make you nostalgic. Because for many years, Apple, it would seem, replaced the option to “save” with a duplicate.

on the left: a regular duplicate button. On the right: you can change this in order to save, as by holding the option key

, therefore, if you have a document, and you want to save it under the new name & MDash; Because, say, you are based on the second document on this original & mdash; You should have passed in a couple of steps. With the open document, you seem to be needed:

Select the “File”, duplicate
Close the source document
save the new

This is the need to remember to close the original document, but if you do not do this, at some point you will unintentively make changes to it instead of the new one. I did this with accounts and MDash; Open the last client, accidentally rewrite it with new details, and then find out that I did it in tax time.

However, with the exception of the exception, it still exists, it is simply hidden. With an open original document:

Select the
Maintain the Option key

. duplicate The menu element changes to the old Save as .

Now you have one document on your screen, and this is new. The old one cannot be randomly affected.

Writing and preserving documents

You opened the existing PAGES document or you transformed the word one or you started a new one Document. Now you can just go ahead and write.

Pages will constantly save the document, but it is best to do this. Select the file, save and be sure to give the document a name and save it somewhere where you will find it.

these days it is a little belt and paint, since even without how you yourself do not save it, Pages makes this business to save a copy for you. But if the pages or your Mac are removed for what reason, it is much easier to find your document again, if it is not just “without name 77”.

as for writing on the pages, you simply enter, and that can be all you need to know or take care.

But it will not be. No, if you write something more than a simple note.

Writing long documents

If you really just write some notes, you better do it in Apple Notes. On the pages you must save every document in which you write, and in the end you get countless to look.

When you write something longer than, say, on the page, then there are tools that will help you. They will also help your reader find your own path around your document.

on the pages you can have:

Headings and the lower columns
The headlines and the main text or text class = “Col-SM-12″> This last option, styles can actually be the most significant, and it becomes longer than your document.

Styles

each text processor has styles & MDash; This is one thing that distinguishes them from text editors and mdash; And bless them for it. The function of styles allows, for example, to say that you want all your headlines to be 14 points of Palatino and Bold, and the text of your body is in 12 points, but also ordinary ones.

Select a little text, and you can change its style with a click. & Mdash; Or a combination of keys

so far it sounds like a shoulder. But later, when you send the manuscript and find out that the publisher requires the copy to be in Helvetica and headlines in an American writing machine, you can change your entire document using several clicks.

The style is at least a linear face and font size, but it can also be:
- The line distance and space before and after paragraphs
- bullets or lists
- to the left, right, in the center or fully justified

Navigation on a long document

In most cases, you will move down the document, typing and printing and collecting. But when you edit and revise it, you want to move faster, in this case:

Click on the side panel icon (above the left, next to the percentage of the presentation)
Select the “check” Page.

You are not the only person who needs to quickly move the document. There is also your reader, and you can help them by creating bookmarks.

Any word or word in your document can be turned into a bookmark. After you install the bookmark, you can refer to it from any place in the document.

, so that at the beginning you can have an essay that selects certain chapters, and then the reader can press to jump directly to this place.

Cross link is carried out by installing bookmarks, and then refers to them

This is how pages process cross links. You set up a bookmark, the you set up a link to it:

Select Some Text, The Document Icon at Top Right

click on Bookmarks

click add Bookmark

next, Select the Text to Link to That Bookmark

Right -click And Choose Add Link

Click on the bookmark

from the appearance of a list of bookmarks, select the one you want

you can have any number of links and any number of bookings. But any single link can only refer to one bookmark.

Femoratives and endot

A very common use for binding two parts of the document is to have a footnote in the lower part of the page and MDash; Or the final example at the end of the section. I was going to say that for some reason it was the most strange awkward feature on the pages, but when I wrote this, the reader by e -mail indicated that this was actually a failure.

footnotes should go at the bottom of the page, usually occupying something like a sixth or fifth page. If the text is more than it can correspond to this space, the footnote should continue at the foot of the next page.

This is not on the pages, and you can’t do anything about it. The text is just leaving.

A similar thing happens with end-taps that go at the end of the chapter, section or your book. They should also be brief, or they will be cut off in the middle of the stream.

This is a rather amazing failure on the pages, but even when the footnotes and footnotes work, there is a problem. For example, you cannot have both footnotes and footnotes, you must choose.

As a rule, and, possibly, even almost everywhere, articles in which there are such notes already tend to have one or another. But with the pages you have no choice.

plus, for some reason you cannot first configure the final example. You must make a footnote, and then convert it to the final one.

, fortunately, after all this, the adjustment of the footnote is especially easy.

Click in the text in which you want a footnote, link

Select insert, footnote , or click the insert and select

write the text to write the text Femicles in the box that appears

Instead, create the final connection:

Click in any one footnote

Click to open the format panel

select the section at the end of the whole document or only at the end of the current section.

This is not the same as it is difficult to do it, but it is modest & mdash; And, of course, there is no way that the user can accidentally stumble upon him.

This is the reason why pages users often do not understand that this can do as much as possible. But if Apple may be mistaken in hiding the more involved features of the pages, the general goal is to help.

Pages is a rather surprisingly powerful text processor, even if it has some oddities.

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