Wow! I have been using word processors for years and Pages for the last couple of years. Your presentation is and total game changer, not just about software tricks but a philosophy of how to utilize the software for better writing. Thank you!!
@@coryupchurch2988 The only way I know to do this is to first, put the text into a text box. Then when you click inside the box, on the right panel three buttons appear. The first button moves the text to the top of the box; the last button moves the text to the bottom of the box. The middle button centers the text vertically.
Any time I hear someone say "I don't use Pages, I use (other random app that cost them quite a bit of money)," I'm amazed, unless their work requires the other app. Pages is a fantastic writing tool, and comes with every Mac. I hate having to write in Word when I'm forced to after using Pages. And now, I know even more about things I'd never even thought about. Thanks again, Gary!
The use of 'white space' in reports or emails (i.e. gaps between paragraphs or special sections in a document) is something that's always considered at work to improve the readability of a document,
I prefer black page with green text just like in the good old days. It's easiest on the eyes, and when on my laptop, uses less energy. I had never learned the advantages of Styles, but now I see I need to incorporate that into my writing. I'm writing my biography for grandkids. Thanks Gary.
I'm a recent Mac user so this is incredibly useful! I might actually start using Pages for my next college assignment just to give it a try instead of using MS Word.
Go back and watch some of his other stuff. I learned Mac in just a couple months watching Gary, and I know more than half the people I know who have been using it for years. Incredible resource.
Styles and templates are really useful. I do a lot of public speaking and it’s great to be able to easily set a special format so that my notes are easily legible from the lectern without losing much eye contact and concentration with my audience. Once I set it up it’s a simple matter to select it before I print.
@@noooname2568 only one hot tip? Find someone in your audience who seems to be attentive and imagine that you are speaking directly to that person. As you scan the faces before you continue to return to that individual and speak to them. There could be a couple of people whom you might choose to focus on so that your gaze isn’t always directed to one part of the room.
Love your channel - it's by far the best Mac tutorial source anywhere. Many of us are using apps on older Macs that may not include all of the features of more current versions, and it would save us a lot of time and frustration if you could mention the app version you're using in your tutorials. Again, love your channel and your tutorials.
Pages is my favorite Apple app. Improvements have been constant and useful. Where I used to start in a plain text app or the infuriating Notes, I am increasingly using Pages from the start, saving tons of time. I especially like how it handles images but feel that part is crying out for a Styles paradigm as well. I find the default wrapping and spacing maddeningly cumbersome in my work creating technical manuals. Way too many steps currently to use a consistent look of image fitting to text. It would be really big for me to have 3-4 styles with the many settings done with a single click. Tables could use a little attention as well.
Thank you Prof for this most useful video. Let’s say we wanted all the paragraphs (and only the paragraphs) in your sample document to be ‘justified.’ Would you just place the cursor in a random paragraph, select the justification icon and then click ‘update’ so that all paragraphs would update to justification?
This was interesting. Never really explored Pages. Checked on my iPad and it’s not the same, as I expected. But, it may well have enough. I’ll try it for sure.
Oh, Gary, you lost me about 2/3rds of the way. Too fast for me to keep up. Of course the fact that I'm 81 years old might have something to do with it, eh? I've traveled extensively all over the world (103 countries so far), and friends want me to write a book. I have 26 pages of notes with different styles, fonts, colors, etc. So your piece here inspires me to set things right.
Thanks, Gary. I use Pages all the time, but I learned a couple of things I hadn’t thought about. Just wondering if you’ve had trouble with numbered lists that refuse to start from the previous number? Just encountered it last week, and have no idea what to do about it (yes, I’ve tried the obvious fixes).
How about Legal Writting? Petition cover page, Table of Authorities, changing page numbers between prefix and page numbers (i, 1), footnotes, section breaks!! (not a new page), columns, etc.???
Always amazing to discover new things with you Gary; Just a question in the table of contents I don't have the word edit (Monterey installed) have you an idea ?
Thanks Gary for this wonderful video. I am using Pages from last year and overall my experience is ok. I generally face one issue is when I paste multiple screenshots in the page document then if I edit at the top or add more lines then screenshots got overlapped. I tried different ways but not able to figure our how to resolve this issue. I would be thankful if anyone can help me in sorting this out.
Thank you for this video! Nevertheless I have got a question: Is it possible to generate a „line-numbering“ (5-10-15 …) in pages now? It would be very helpful when putting in text sources in exams. Thank you in advance!
Thank you for all the videos on Pages. Perfect as always but I could not see an answer to this situation. I have written a book, making each chapter a different document. If I paste all the chapters one after the other, will the page numbers and all the footnotes rearrange themselves automatically? To afraid to try it before your input.
I wish I could write in pages in like a mobile app view like Microsoft word lets you do. then you can zoom in as much as you want without screwing up the margins.
Great tips, as always! Thanks, Gary. I have a question, though: doesn't Pages have the "find and replace - with formatting" function that Microsoft Word has? I can't find a way do it in Pages, and it's such a useful function. Maybe there's a workaround I haven't thought of?
No, it doesn't. The thing to use is Styles. With Styles you can change all of the formats for all similar items (headings, captions, etc) all at once. It works in situations where "find and replace with formatting" wouldn't work, because you may have different formatting throughout a document. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7t9A_sYkAEY.html
Hello Gary. I now have a hand me down imac 2013 Catalina and can’t use Pages. What would you recommend for an easy simple program…thank you. Really enjoy your videos and info
I’ve just got my MacBook Pro and as homework have to write a monologue. I haven’t got the pink bar along the top like yours and don’t know how to save my work
Do you mean the Menu Bar? If you have hidden it (System Settings, Control Center), it will still appear if you move your pointer to the top of the screen.
Thanks for this and all the great Pages tutorials. I've really learned a lot. Can I ask a question. Is it possible to have a table of contents in Layout View? I'm building a cook book and inserting individual pages into a Master document - so layout view is a must. But Table of contents goes grey? thanks in advance.
That kind of table of contents doesn't make sense for page layout since there is no body text for it to pull headings from. With page layout, you'd create your own, manually. You can use links in them if you want so a PDF would have a TOC that links to the right page.
Thanks, Gary, that is a good idea. I should have thought of it myself?!?! PS. I really love your tutorials. Clean, simple, understandable. I suggest you every time someone asks me a Mac question! Thank you
You mean "SF" fonts? The symbols? You get them here: developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/ I'm not sure about your second question as I don't know what that is. Try it for yourself and see.
@@macmost Sorry... San Francisco Fonts. I thought they were available only for Apple devlopers, not for everynone. And about schema, actually Word calls OUTLINES view of the document. It is to organize the content hierarchy among titles, subtitles and independent content. That is something that Pages didn‘t have a cup of years ago.
I noticed that you have SF Pro Display and Text fonts in your Pages. I tried before (to install it) but I failed. How did you do that? Do you mind teaching us? Thanks.
@@TheAireaidLord So do you mean Word? "Windows" is the operating system and you don't edit text in that, you organize your files. In Pages, you could use styles to set the selected text to the base format ("Body" probably). See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7t9A_sYkAEY.html
Hi Gary, I have looked through the many wonderful videos and am learning a great deal, thanks so much. I have a question. In an attempt to create an electronic version of an invoice, I used Adobe Acrobat and now my PDFs are in that form. I can right click and open them one by one in preview, but they return to the Adobe format afterwards. How do change them back?
Not sure what you mean. Are they PDFs? If so, they are PDFs and not necessarily Adobe Acrobat files. You can open them in anything that will open PDFs.
@@macmost Hello Gary, I really appreciate your getting back to me. I used to always use Preview for PDF's . Since I woke up Adobe to try and make a document that I could sign electronically all of the recent PDF's that I have opened now have an Adobe icon rather than the preview one I had before and unless I right click and choose open with Preview it opens in Adobe. When I finsh with the PDF and close it, it remains an Adobe icon. I did look on the Adobe site to see if uninstalling Adobe was an option, but didn't see any thing helpful.
@@stephaniegrace8623 Oh, so what you are asking is about the default app for opening a file. The file isn't changing formats at all. It is just which app your Mac considers to be the default one for that file type. This is easy to change if you know how. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oVqka7TGdOA.html
Hey Gary, I’ve been watching a lot of your videos on Pages because I keep having difficulties with the app on my iPad. You’ve helped walk me through some problems. Right now I have where between early this morning and later this morning Pages created ten duplicates of one of my documents. No idea why. But worst part, it took away half of the work I had added to it this morning. Now, there’s STILL the document I had from last night, untouched. I can’t figure it out. I only opened the document once this morning and added to the two sides of the table, and closed it until I could print later. Which is now. But the work I did, it’s gone with no idea how to retrieve it back. Not sure if you can help me with this.
There's not much I can do to help with this. You'll need to contact Apple Support. I can't tell what is happening on your iPad or iCloud account, only Apple can assist.
I'm curious if the highlights/comments can still be seen when exported to Word? I correct some students' writings constantly, but have to export to Word, since most don't use Mac. Does anyone knkow if they would still see the comments? I've been using track changes.
Hellllllppppppp - I am having so much trouble with pages. How do I get out of these crazy formats so that I can just type and adjust everything as I go? I want to add hanging indents to the second line in my Bibliography page but it won't allow me to, it keeps changing the first line.
I spent a whole day today writing a report in Pages and a spreadsheet in Numbers. It was really annoying to discover that dragging and dropping the spreadsheet into the report didn't work well. I couldn't rotate the spreadsheet or work out how (or if) I could have a single landscape section in a mostly portrait document. I had to retype the whole spreadsheet and lost the calculations in the process. I know I can do it in Word and Excel and I cannot believe Apple didn't include this functionality but it's just too counter intuitive. I so wish there was a decent comprehensive tutorial for these two apps.
one way around this might be to create a table within Pages. That works quite well for me, though I don't need to use formulas etc so I'm not sure if that functionality is available with this workaround
I write a family history newsletter, using screen grabs for examples. I'm really frustrated by 'arrows'. I know how to insert, direct, lengthen, and shorten, but every time I move one everything else gets disrupted!! Please, there must be a way to get around all that mess.
Deja vu. Someone else (maybe you?) asked the same question yesterday. You've go to use the Arrange sidebar and set the arrows not to wrap the text. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iTek903hKQU.html for some basics.
Hi can you help me I have a pages doc and the words are are in line (Example below) how do I make a normal across the page paragraph: breathing for because it's ok. We need to learn. And as teachers, teacher's what you will do is you'll usually a teach the physical aspects of the exercise
Use Edit Find, search for and replace with a space. If you have more than this in your document, consider copying and pasting just this section to another temporary document to just find and replace there, then copy and paste back.
