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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
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1 Overview of Pages
This chapter introduces you to the windows and
tools you’ll use in Pages.
When you create a Pages document, you must first select a template to start from.
Pick the one that best fits your purpose and design goals. If you want to start from a
plain document, without a lot of preformatting, use the Blank template.
You can drag or place objects on a page, including imported graphics, movies, and
sound, or text boxes, charts, tables, and shapes that you create within Pages. New
pages are added automatically as you type into your document. You can also add pre-
formatted pages, before or after existing pages, by selecting from those available in
each template. For more information about this, see “Expanding Your Document” on
page 37.
In Pages templates, pages contain text and image placeholders, which demonstrate
the look of the finished document. You can replace the placeholder text with your
own text by just typing. You can replace placeholder images by dragging an image to
the placeholder. For more information about working with placeholder text and
images, see “Step 3: Add Text” on page 38, and “Step 6: Save and Share Your
Document” on page 56.
Using Pages Templates
When you first open the Pages application, the Template Chooser presents a variety of
document types from which to choose. Select the template you want to use, and then
click Choose.
A new template contains placeholder text, placeholder images, and other items,
which represent elements of the finished document.