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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
Chapter 12 Designing Your Own Document Templates 241
Important: When selecting blocks of text to define as placeholder text, be careful not
to select the final paragraph break character. Doing so will cause the entire paragraph
to be deleted when the user begins typing in the placeholder text, and the new text
will take on the attributes of the following paragraph. To see the paragraph break
character as you work, click View in the toolbar and choose Show Invisibles (or choose
View > Show Invisibles).
To remove placeholder text:
m Select it and press Delete.
Creating Placeholder Graphics
Placeholder graphics make it easy for you to size and position graphics correctly by
simply dragging them onto the placeholders you have created.
To create a placeholder graphic:
1 Place and size a placeholder image on the page (it might be a shaded box with
instructional text, for example).
2 Select the image and choose Format > Advanced > Define as Image Placeholder.
To make a placeholder image an ordinary image:
m Select it and then deselect “Define as Image Placeholder” in the choose Format >
Advanced submenu. (A selected item has a checkmark next to it; choose the item
again to deselect it.)
To delete a placeholder graphic:
m Select the image and press Delete.
Providing Page Designs for Expandable Templates
You may want to make your template expandable so that template users can simply
insert additional page designs you have created. The page designs are available using
the Pages command in the Insert menu (for more information, see “Expanding Your
Document” on page 37).
1 Design a layout of one or more pages, inserting a section break at the beginning and
end of the layout.