Questions tagged [pages]
Apple's word processing and desktop publishing software for OS X and iOS
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Pages equation editor: default code
For math homework I use Pages and the equation editor with LaTeX.
I want to use LaTeX macros to make writing equations more efficient, however if I have to enter in all the macro definitions each ...
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How do I add a line from the end of a sentence to the edge of the paper in Pages?
If I have some text like:
Work Experience
Taco Bell
Apple Store
Disneyland
and I want a line drawn from the end of “Work Experience” to the right side of the page (to the end of the ...
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Pages and Numbers have generic app icon in Dock
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Early 2011 running macOS 10.13.6 (the latest it will support).
I wanted to replace the HDD with a 256GB SSD so I did a fresh install to the SSD in an enclosure then ...
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“The file format is invalid” error message Pages Mac
Got an error message opening my file that has always worked till now. Stored on iCloud Drive, so I can open it on my iPhone X too. Updated my Mac, but still not working. Not sure what to do, have ...
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How to return back to the default view of pages in Pages?
I've screwed something up with a settings and I cannot go back to the defaults. How to return back to the default view of displaying pages (page under page) instead of having them diagonally or page ...
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How can I resize an image within a table in Pages
After adding an image (jpeg) to a table cell, I cannot resize it. The table is not locked, all arrange options are greyed out. If I triple click the image, it gets a blue bounding box but has no ...
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How to recover an accidentally deleted new pages document
I accidentally clicked "delete" (clicked too fast thinking it was cancel) on the save new document prompt when exiting Pages. After one bad click, the file is completely gone, with no clear way to ...
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How do I export a Pages document on my iPad to PDF and save it in Files?
On the Apple Pages iPad app, you can export a document to PDF. When it creates the PDF, it gives you the option to “Share” it. There are many apps you can share it to, including Gmail, Notes, and ...
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Pages 8.2.1 - Export to PDF like the Pages '09?
I'm on macOS Mojave (10.14.6) and finally left Pages '09 behind to "upgrade" to Pages 8.2.1.
In Pages' 09, I would add comments galore to the text and then Export to PDF. Why? Because the annotated ...
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How to edit sender information in Pages' letter template?
When you create a letter in Pages it creates sender information in the upper right corner. How do you edit this information? If you click it, it just selects everything but doesn't give you a way to ...
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Wrong top margin on 1st page of a Pages document
I currently use Pages version 8.2.1 (6529) running on macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6.
I have a document with a single "section". In the "Document" sidebar I have set the top and bottom margins to "0....
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Accepting mark-up causes a jump to a distant part of a document
I currently use Pages version 8.2.1 (6529) running on macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6.
I have a long document that colleagues have "marked-up" via the Track Changes feature.
When I select a mark-up and ...
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Create different header after each chapter in pages 8.2.1
Can I change in Automatic way the header with the current chapter?
In Image we can see that the previous chapter (title) is in header (I text inside the cell, not automatic way) and when begin title ...
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How could I replace Mathtype in a mathematic document with Catalina?
I think I'm not the only one with this problem on Mac.
I have to buy a new MacBook with Catalina 10.15 (64 bits).
Being a math teacher, I need Mathtype to edit equations in my docs. I have a lot of ...
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Keep Getting “document cannot be autosaved” using Apple Pages 8.2
I am trying to save a document using Apple Pages version 8.2 on Catalina. Every time I make change and try to save, I keep getting "this document cannot be autosaved" error. It was working just fine, ...
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Can I suppress the dot under an image caption in pages for macOS?
When I use the media box to add a photo, I seem to be required to add a caption. Then under the caption, there is a gray dot. These dots show up in the image files I paste into Pages similar to this ...
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Can you open multiple files at once in Pages
I am running high sierra on my iMac. I would like to do some copying and pasting from one document to another. I use Pages to create and edit my documents. Is there a way to open 2 or more documents ...
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Pages - new paragraph in the same list item?
I create a numbered list:
1. Point 1
2. Point 2
and so on. Now I realised that the content of 2 requires two paragraphs
1. Point 1
2. Point 2, paragraph 1
Point 2, paragraph 2
but pressing ...
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What is it that raises my footer in my Pages 7.0.1. document
In my Pages document, at the bottom of p. 9 I have a star, followed by a blank line, followed by some text :
To save space, I delete that blank line between the star and the text (by putting the ...
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Does Pages support LaTeX extensions?
Is there a location where I can install LaTeX plugins so that I can use the commands in the plugins which are not native to LaTeX in the equation editor in Pages? Or does Pages not support that?
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Old version (macOS Sierra) for Pages, Keynote and Numbers, iWork
I uninstalled my iWork tools - Keynote, Numbers and Pages - from my MacBook Air.
Unfortunately, I don't want to upgrade my MBA to Mojave/Catalina in order to install.
I looking for the working iWork ...
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Why does AppleScript “exists” sometimes always return “false”? (part of question regarding checking documents in Pages)
I'm new to AppleScript and I've reached this problem after several other problems and work arounds (see further down for more details). My current problem is that I'm telling Pages to check if any ...
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Opening any of the iWork suite brings up over 80 dialogs in a row
Upon opening Pages, Keynote or Numbers I'm informed that it "needs to download the font X" with a skip or a download button via a dialog (great choice, something that remains in the centre of the ...
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iCloud is not syncing files within Pages and Numbers folders
Ever since I upgraded to Catalina, I've had a problem where the files within the Pages and Numbers folders in iCLoud don't sync to my Mac, except for files I've created since the upgrade. However, if ...
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how do I show tracked changes in a different colors in Pages?
I have a Pages document where someone tracked their changes to it. (It is in Word Document format.) I would like to see all their changes in a different color, just like in Word, but I can't seem to ...
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“This document has missing fonts” error for fonts that are installed (Pages/Numbers)
I've installed a bunch of fonts into ~/Library/Fonts that didn't come with macOS Catalina. When I open a document in Pages that contains these fonts it comes up with the error "This document has ...
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Media Browser only shows videos and a few photos
I have an older MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid 2012) that I just updated from MacOS Sierra to Catalina (10.15.1) so that I could download and use Pages. I also deleted my Photos Library and created a new ...
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How to add space between cells' borders in Mac Pages (without removing the borders)? See image attached
I would like to create a table that looks like this:
Is that even possible in Pages?
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Inserting Equations in Pages - Keyboard Shortcut?
I use the "Insert > Equation..." feature in Pages quite frequently. Is there a keyboard shortcut to open this box faster than clicking through first "Insert" and then "Equation..."?
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Pages: keyboard shortcut for inserting an equation
Pages has a new feature to add latex equations. As a latex user, I find this extremely useful!
A feature that would make my life even better would be a keyboard shortcut that pushes the "insert" ...
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Is Pages gone on iPad OS?
I just updated my iPad to the latest verision of the operating system (iPad OS).
It seems that the Pages app is gone... and I can't install it.
AppStore displays a message on the Pages app:
Pages ...
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Pages: How can I make a new character style permanent?
(Pages 8.1 on 2017 Macbook).
I made a couple of new character styles when editing a document. They show up in the inspector correctly, but only when editing that particular document.
I'd like to ...
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In numbers or pages for ios, Is it possible to force a trend line to start at (0,0)?
I was wondering, if, in whatever the newest version of ios, numbers, and/or pages, it is possible to force a trendline through a point on a 2D scatter graph (e.g. the origin (0,0)). I was hoping to ...
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Pages exact same font, looks sharper when using template
I have been using the default fonts in the 'Business Resume' template and I wanted to use them in my handcrafted version due to this bug. The fonts are pretty simple and nothing extraordinary, for ...
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I followed up the instructions to extend the column width and it reverts the number
I am not sure why I try to update the number of the column width, but once I click out of the box, it reverts back to the original width. What can I do to keep the value I type?
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Apple Pages - Can't View Text at Bottom of Page
I am working with a Table in Pages. I am unable to add and view additional rows at the bottom of the page. I cannot progress to page 2 of the document.
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Can I pin something to the bottom of the last page of a document?
I have a text box for signatures and notary that I would like to pin to the last page of the document, but the document template has a table in the middle that could expand this to two or more pages. ...
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Fonts Choices Can Not be seen at Night
The font choice are on the right side of the screen on Pages. At night I have to click on a font choice for it to be visible. In the day they are easily readable. This just started happening on my ...
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Unable to type Tibetan Monlam font in Pages and Microsoft Word 2019
I am not able to type with the Tibetan Monlam boyig Unicode 2 font in Pages on macOS and Microsoft Word 2019.
I try to change English keyboard to Tibetan by pressing control - shift in my macbook ...
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iPad notes to Pages
Using my iPad Pro, I draft many notes using the well-known Notes app. Next, I would like to polish them and add more detail therefore on Pages, but I could not find yet an efficient way to “import” ...
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How do I change the default document column margins in Pages?
In Pages 8.1 on MacOS Mojave, I can't seem to change the default dimensions of the default column for the document body. I started a new document and chose Resume > Business Resume. I switched to the ...
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Apple Pages insert equation greyed out after 8.1 update
I've been using Pages' insert equation functionality to insert LaTeX equations for a long time now. However, recently after the new update I am unable to do so as the option is greyed out.
I tried ...
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Pages: Fit two A5 page on on a single A4 page in landscape mode
I want to print the same content twice on a page and then cut the page into two parts. Basically I want to start with an A4 page in portrait mode, and want to end up with (approximately) two A5 in ...
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Pages for macOS: Show Inspector and make the window grow
In Apple Pages for macOS, I would like to work with all the panels hidden and only call them when I need it.
When I call the Inspector, if I have the view to fit width, the page gets smaller (the ...
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How to copy URL with page title from Safari to Pages
In earlier versions of Safari and Pages drag&drop of an URL from Safari to Pages resulted in a link with the page title as the text, and the URL as a link "behind" it. It still works that way in ...
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How do I recover a locked pages document password on my iPhone? [duplicate]
I wrote down a password that I thought was supposedly the password to the right locked password document in Pages. Now I can’t find a way to recover it on my iPhone. I have no hints put on it.
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Adding links on images
I can't find a way to add links on my images, am I missing something? I tried via the menu but the option seems locked or with ⌘+k but this has no effect either.
Any clue on what's going on? If it's ...
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How do I create a vertical baseline in Pages?
How do I create a vertical baseline for credits for illustrations and photographs using Pages?
Beside a photo used in an article I want to run a credit line "Photography: Black Star Photo Agency, Inc....
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Move a paragraph up or down in pages
In MS-Word I could move a whole paragraph up/down within the text using Shift-Alt-Up or -Down keys. No need to highlight anything, Ms-word already knows which paragraph the cursor is in. Just have the ...
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Where are “import from iPhone” photos stored in the iPhone?
Using Mojave on a Macbook while using Pages I found today the option "import from iPhone" which I used a picture I took with my iPhone to a Pages document in my Mac. I liked the photo and later I ...
