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What is this ⌅ symbol?
⌅
is a symbol representing a press of the Enter key.
Enter is often confused with return ↩ and less often with control due to the caret.
⌃
is the Control symbol.
So your keyboard shortcut is Cmd ⌘ ...
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Is there a hack for "Save As..." command?
With the File menu open, press and hold the Option key to get the Save As... command.
Update: Some new users of macOS may be concerned about the discoverability of the command, as it is not visible ...
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Old version (macOS Sierra) for Pages, Keynote and Numbers, iWork
You need to have an old version of Pages, Keynote and Numbers installed in your Applications folder to be able to update them. If you lack these (either because you deleted them or never had them ...
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Change equation font in Pages
Pages uses blahtex to generate PNGs from the rudimentary maths environments. The following fonts are available out of the box with blahtex:
2.12 Fonts
\mathbf \mathbb \mathrm \mathit \mathcal \...
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Is there a hack for "Save As..." command?
As others have said, you can get ‘Save As’ with the Option key.
However, I prefer another way, which I have been promoting since Mountain Lion came out in 2012.
Go to System Preferences » Keyboard » ...
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Can I insert the page number of a specified bookmark into a Pages document?
Interesting question! I checked the Add bookmarks and cross-references in Pages page and couldn't find anything that would achieve what you want.
I then turned my attention to MS Word, thinking that ...
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How to edit sender information in Pages' letter template?
Okay, I found out how to do this. It looks like the elements in a new document created from a template are setup as Placeholder text.
After creating a new document, select all and then do this twice:
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Wrap words in Pages
According to the Apple KB article Pages ‘09: Using Automatic Hyphenation, you can try these methods.
To turn hyphenation on or off for the entire document, click Inspector in the toolbar, click ...
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Get Numbers & Pages et al. on macOS 10.11 El Capitan
I had this issue too. Whenever I used an Apple ID that hadn't previously downloaded iWork I wasn't able to download the free version on 10.11. I even tried this workaround.
What did work was getting ...
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Function keys function toggle
This works for me using the latest version of Sierra and 15 inch MBP (non-touch bar)
Using Automator, create a new file and choose “New Service” as your option
Add A “Run AppleScript command” to ...
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Make numbers in table of contents go to right of page in Pages
Show the ruler (View → Show Rulers), then adjust the TOC as you desire, such as:
Move the page numbers by selecting all TOC levels (hold ⌘ while clicking to select multiple levels) and moving the ...
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How to return back to the default view of pages in Pages?
Welcome to Ask Different!
1) Untick the "Facing Pages" option on the right sidebar in the "Document" tab (the open tab in the picture you have shared). This should remove the diagonals.
2) Click on ...
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How to insert horizontal line to page headers in Apple Pages
I did the following:
1) Click anywhere on paragraph section (not the header section)
2) Go to Format on sidebar and select Layout tab
3) Expand Borders & Rules (click upside down triangle)
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How to insert a vector notation in Keynote/Pages?
If you're writing an equation, use Insert → Equation… (⌥⌘E). Here, you can insert LaTeX:
These equations can be display style or inline.
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Show header only on first page on Pages
Make the front page its own section. From the Document Setup inspector, choose
Section → Create a new section.
With the new section selection, deselect Headers & Footers → Match previous section.
...
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Change equation font in Pages
This very point has bothered me - I detest the fact that the font in my equations is so different to the rest of my doc. I explored various methods for changing font but none worked. Yesterday I ...
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Using master pages with normal Pages documents in Pages 7.0
According to this report, the feature can only be used with Layout docs.
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Information on Box
This refers to Box.com, a third-party collaboration tool with a focus on file sharing, similar to Dropbox.
As for why this company specifically: it is known that Apple internally uses Box for file ...
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Minimum Image Object Size in macOS Pages 7.1?
OK - fixed it... If you select an image from the Media browser, you HAVE to select 'Other' to select your image otherwise the image you end up with WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE RESIZED BELOW A MINIMAL ...
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Does Pages support LaTeX extensions?
Pages does not support loading LaTeX packages (they're not called plugins, but packages in LaTeX terminology). So you cannot just load up for example chemfig from CTAN that you mention.
Apple ...
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Is there a hack for "Save As..." command?
You can save the current document in Pages, Numbers and Keynote to a new location with Option Shift Command S. Holding down Option when the File menu is revealed will display Save As... in the place ...
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Need Mac Numbers & Pages for Mojave
Running on Mojave, a quick test of deleting Pages reveals that I cannot download the latest version from the App Store's main pages, but if I go to the list of "Purchased" apps in my Account,...
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How to insert a vector notation in Keynote/Pages?
You can hunt for things like this in the [badly renamed] Emoji & Symbols [Character] viewer.
System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard & enable it in the Menu Bar; it will then be more easily ...
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Self-updating textfield in Pages 6.2
This solution requires Numbers but the date changes on opening.
In Numbers create a single cell table
Then enter the following formula: "Last edited: "& DAY(TODAY()) & " : " & MONTH(...
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How to rotate whole table in Pages document?
Insert a shape near the table and change the fill to 'No Fill'
Select the shape and the table
Group the shape and table together
Rotate the group
If you ungroup the elements the table will revert ...
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How do I type piecewise functions in pages?
You can enter the equations in pages using LaTeX and MathML with Insert -> Equation... or pressing ⌥ alt+⌘cmd+E.
It'll look like this:
|x| = \begin{cases}
-x, & \mbox{if } x < 0 \\
x, &...
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Center an element which is "inline with text"
Use the text formatting for the paragraph containing the image rather than the image itself.
Click beside the image to move the insertion point to the paragraph, then use the format inspector to set ...
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Don't indent first paragraph in Pages
This is an important question for anyone concerned with proper typesetting.
The solution is to click on your first body paragraph, create a new paragraph style (by pressing the 'plus' symbol at the ...
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Add tags to equations in Pages
\tag is part of the amsmath LaTeX package rather than LaTeX itself. Pages doesn't support ams.
Internally, Pages uses blahtex to generate PNGs from the rudimentary maths environments. These ...
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