Questions tagged [pages]
Apple Pages is an application for creating documents. Use this tag for all versions of this app, web based, iPad and iPhone as well as macOS
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In Pages, how to edit these immovable (but not locked) images?
Sometimes I import a Microsoft Word file into Pages, only to find that some portion of the document is not editable. Usually an image that is treated like part of the background, and although it can ...
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Apple Pages: How to display custom date format?
I want my date format to be [day] [month spelled out] [year]. Pages has a variety of options, but none match that particular order.
FYI: Running Apple Pages v12.1 on MacBook Pro running MacOS Monterey ...
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How do I prevent Pages from hyphenating a specific word?
I have read Wrap words in Pages but my question is different. How do I prevent a specific word from being hyphenated (because Pages is wrong - "IS-P:er" (!!))?
I have a vague memory that ...
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Internal Links in Apple Pages not working when exporting to Epub
I made my own TOC, with links to different parts of the document. None of those links work when I export to Epub but they all work inside Pages.
I have tried with Reflow - No Reflow - Enable TOC - not ...
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How to make Epub generated from Apple Pages keep content on pages
This is for a book of poetry, and while it is not so important where poems end it is important they always start on their own page and are not part of another poem's page.
So I know that when I export ...
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In Apple Pages, is there a function to search for names and tell me yes or no?
In apple pages, I have a list of names created and it's gotten too big for me to scroll through and see if a name already exists. I was curious if there is a way to make a function/formula to help me ...
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Mac OS apps like numbers, pages, keynote & QuickTime freeze when closing unsaved files
I just upgraded to MAC OS 12.4 and if I do CMD+Q i.e quit an application with unsaved document I get the following
At this point none of the keys respond namely DELETE or CANCEL. And application ...
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How to Disable Auto-Hyphenation
I have had an iPhone 7 Plus since 2018. It is running on iOS 15.5 with Pages Document version 11.1. Today, for the first time ever, after finishing one Pages Document with no issues, it suddenly ...
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Automator action to paste a word in all fonts
How would I write an Automator action or Applescript to paste or type a word in every single font? The screenshot is what I have so far. The hitch I'm running into is in the "make a selection ...
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Globally change colors in Pages document
I need to experiment with various color schemes for a pages document. I want to find all instances of a certain color and change it to something else. I am using various color in table cell ...
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Apple Pages (desktop) - clear previous documents?
For years I’ve created and used a Pages template document that contains the various document and font settings I regularly use. This makes it easier to begin writing right away. I usually forget to ...
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Pages 12.0 on Monterey 12.4: Why can't I add or change certain parts of styles?
See screen shots. All the circled options are greyed out.
File is not locked or read only. I can edit text and other things no problem.
If it's relevant, collaboration is turned on and shared with ...
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How to switch a text to lowercase within Pages
Within Pages, how to switch a text selection to lowercase ( or to uppercase )?
My actual workaround is:
copy the text within Pages,
open vi without any file name,
paste the selected text,
keep the ~ ...
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Pages app corrupts the inserted hyper links
I insert a link that contains part like "+1%2B+%28%28%28%281" but Pages converts it to "+1++((((" but the link then totally stops working. How do I fix that?
It basically unescapes ...
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After opening a .doc/.docx, I would like to save the converted .pages in same folder as .doc was opened. Does anyone know an easy way to do this?
This drives me crazy. What I usually do is drag the original folder location temporarily into the Finder Sidebar so I'm quickly able to find it in the save dialog. Hopefully there is a setting or ...
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Add a little spreadsheet into Pages app document
Can I have a little spreadsheet within my Pages document, do a little bit of calculations?
I found the "Table" feature. But that seems to support only static content, not formulas for ...
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What is this ⌅ symbol?
As you can see in the image, there is a symbol that looks like a caret under a horizontal line.
I want to break page by this shortcut in the image but I don’t know what the second symbol is and where ...
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How to wrap a paragraph within its tab stop on ruler
I want a two-column format in my Pages word-processing document. The left column should be right-aligned while the right column is left-aligned. Like this:
In Pages I used the same approach as I have ...
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Automatically pull Google Doc into Pages to create PDF
Google Docs is handy for collaborative editing & referencing. But Pages makes the prettiest PDFs.
So my current process is:
from google docs, export as word doc
open in Pages
export to PDF
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How do I create a subheader in Pages?
I am using Pages version 11.2
I don't see any Header 1, Header 2 options anywhere in the UI. Ideally there is a ribbon or control I click so the selected text changes its size like in Word.
How can I ...
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All links and formatting lost when copying text from Pages to another text editor
Steps to reproduce:
open a blank document in Pages
write some text
turn one of the words into a hyperlink and make one of the words bold
copy all text and paste it into another word processor (e.g., ...
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Possible to view items outside print area in a Pages "page layout document"?
If the document body is removed from a Pages document, then the document becomes a "page layout document".
Is it possible to view each item's content outside the print area in a Pages "...
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(Pages) Keyboard shortcut to change colour of selected text
Is it possible to make a shortcut in Pages to change just the selected text (not entire paragraph or part with the same style) to any colour of choice?
I am trying to achieve some sort of a quick ...
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Completing equations in Keynote using keyboard only
I'm making a Keynote presentation with a lot of equations. To add an equation, I can press option-CMD-E, and then I can type the LaTeX code for the equation. However, to complete editing the equation ...
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Pages change the words after exporting as PDF
As we know, most companies have their NLP applications to analyze the resumes they receive.
I recently noticed that if you export your PDF using Pages, the actual content will be changed after ...
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Tool to combine Pages documents?
Every new semester I have to paste the same updated information about my office hours, lecture schedule etc into syllabi (in Apple Pages docs) that have a lot of unchanged information about the ...
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App Keyboard Shortcut for Context Menus?
In Mac Pages there is a context menu item I use all the time: Look Up "[highlighted word]"
I would like to assign a keyboard shortcut to this menu item. However, because it is non-static (...
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How To Continue Footnote Across Multiple Pages in a Pages Document?
I have a footnote in a Pages document that I want to span across multiple pages. I essentially want the footnote to continue in the footnote margin on the next page, or possibly take up a whole page ...
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Where did setting the background color in Pages go?
With the last update (Nov 2021) to Pages 11.2 the ability to set the background color of highlighted text seems to have vanished.
Now the only options are (Advanced) Gradient Fill and (Advanced) Image ...
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How to add word to iOS text correction dictionary? Learn Spelling / Hide Red Squiggly Line
I will often type a brand name or other word that the iOS text correction dictionary thinks is a typo or misspelled.
This adds a red squiggly line under the offending word. Screenshot from Apple iOS ...
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Pages Hierarchy Lists Line Spacing?
I want to know if it is possible to adjust the spacing of only the first hierarchy in a hierarchy list in Pages (something like:
1. Item One
a. Subitem
b. Subitem
2. Item Two
a. Subitem
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Apple Pages.app ruining font display, any ideas?
This truly makes no sense to me. As a graphic designer I've dealt with all sorts of RIP problems in the 90s and had issues with bad fonts in ttf, postscript, and opentype, and any number of other ...
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Adding text between sublists in pages
I'm facing difficulty with nested lists in the Pages app. I'm able to do the following easily.
1. List Item 1 [shift + return]
Some text [return] [tab]
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Batch convert Word .docx files to Pages
I have a folder of almost 100 Word documents that I need to edit in Pages, but opening as .docx and then having to save as .pages manually isn't very convenient. Thus, I want to run a script/tool that ...
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(Pages, iWork) Defining a space between some characters
Is it possible to make a "small" space after certain characters such as before "%". The space should be shorter than standard space, e.g., half of the default space.
An example:
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Why is my Mac randomly mixing up my typing?
Big Sur (OS11.5.2) 8 GB RAM When I type there is hesitation, either brief or totally tying up the computer, and the words are garbled, letters and half-sentences repeated, and generally unreadable. ...
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Is there a way to generate at once or merge all changes in Pages?
I am working on a long document using Pages, with change tracking enabled, and numerous changes have been made. I have made changes to previous (tracked) changes. This results in a messy change log. ...
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Page breaks inside table rows in Pages
I am using 1 x 1 tables in Pages to mark certain paragraphs with blocks around them. This works well enough except that Pages renders those blocks without page breaks. Hence the following question:
Is ...
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Apple pages quits unexpectedly when opening a specific file
when I try to open a report that I was working on on apple pages, it didn't wanna open, and it quits immediately.
this is the error:
Process: Pages [1249]
Path: /...
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Keynote, Pages and Numbers all quit unexpectedly
Today Keynote, Pages and Numbers all quit unexpectedly right after being launched. I only have time to see the "Select a document / New document" window for a second before the apps crash, ...
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Pages: prevent multiple adjacent hyphens
Usually it is considered bad typography to have more than two (?) lines in a row ending with a hyphen. I just wrote a paragraph in Pages and ended up with four adjacent hyphenated lines. Ugly!
How do ...
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How can I print varying number of multiple pages per sheet on Mac? (Standard layout / print multiple pages option does not suit)
I've got a bunch of pdfs containing text. Each page is of the same width, but each page is of a different height. Some pages only contain a few lines of text, other pages contain a lot of text.
I want ...
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Printing one Pages-page twice on a physical paper?
I wrote a short text that would be suitable to print on A5 but I only have A4 in my printer. I need ten physical copies of this text, that is five A4 with it printed twice.
Is it possible to print the ...
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macOS Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Microsoft Office apps will not open [duplicate]
From time to time out of the blue all these apps stop open. Other apps like Transmission, Safari, VLC and Mail seem fine as do other preinstalled apps.
Until recently after the system restart ...
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Why does Pages constantly freeze on a particular pages document
I'm writing a report (4000 words)on Pages in the past few days. However, since this afternoon, after I added a new picture to the report, this report has been constantly unresponsive whenever I scroll ...
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How to make pages/word documents open in preview first?
As you know word documents open by default in pages, and it takes time to do that. Is there any way I can make those documents open in preview first? (plus any other kind of document that you may know)...
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How to get Pages 10.3.9, running on iOS 14.4, to show non-breaking hyphens as hyphens rather than as nothing?
When I create .doc files using Word 2003 on my laptop (Windows 10 Pro), they open fine using Pages 10.3.9 on my iPhone (iOS 14.4), except for one annoyance. This is that Pages simply won't show non-...
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Garbage when printing pdf exported from Pages
I have an issue when printing pdf documents exported from Pages. The pdf looks fine in Preview but when printing, the printer (Xerox 3260 with latest drivers) just spits out almost empty pages with ...
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Need help adjusting AppleScript automation for converting .pages to .docx?
How do I adjust this script to allow me to choose files not in a 'pages only' folder, and instead multiple "free" files?
Keyword here is 'single'. I'm by no means a coding expert but I've ...
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How do you deal with the equations numbering in Pages? [duplicate]
How can I number equations in Pages following standard form:
P.S. No, I don't want to use MS Word... I usually write in LaTeX, however, some documents/papers cannot be given for a review in .tex ...
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