Gary I was hesitant to watch this one because I only use Pages from time to time. Boy was I wrong! This is a great, informative video, but what did I expect? That’s what I always get when I watch your stuff. Thanks for the education. It is a pleasure to be one of your supporters.
Been using styles a lot thanks to you Gary. You forgot to mention that once you’ve settled for customised styles and got rid of those you don’t need, you can create a template and use the latter for any new document you create. This way your styles will always be available. Been doing that for work and it makes things much simpler.
Hey MacMost - your videos are absolutely the best. Number one. Your lessons/answers are exceptionally clear and thorough. Best Videos regarding publishing on Amazon. Thank you!
Wow, you really have a gift for teaching! I've just discovered your channel thanks to this video and I'm so glad I found you. You've got a new subscriber :D
Huh. Check that out. Character styles. I did. not realize that existed. Very cool. I've been an evangelist for using styles for decades. It especially helps for converting word processing documents to handicap accessible (aka, Section 508) PDF documents. We do that a lot where I work.
Good video - one other related thing is the ability to use the Edit > "Paste and Match/Preserve Style" command. I see people paste content into existing Pages documents and then go back have to reapply the base style or worse... they try to recreate the style without using the styles at all. Side note: It's irritating that the right/ CTL click does not allow Paste and Match Style.
Hi there, I am using pages and numbers extensively but in the old fashion way, all selected by hand without applying any pages features. I’d like to ask you this, if you don’t mind: I have a two pages document with a “section” on each page. I did insert a numbers chart to add figures in each cell then have a subtotal and a total figure but as I continue adding rows and the bottom of the section is reached the numbers chart doesn’t jump to the next page section. It disappear at the bottom of the section of the first page. How I can make the chart to continue on the second page section? Thanks
Thanks for this tutorial even if it did not solve my issue. I want to keep sizes, bold/normal etc for the different styles, but change the font, say from Helvetica to Garamond. Is there an easy way to do that or do I have to got through every Style and change them one by one?
Thank you Gary, I’m learning a lot with your videos, but it’s to much informations that I have to watch 2 or 3 videos per day to assimilate all little by little
Thanks Gary, is there a way to use a different function key than those given (only from F1-F8) I want Style "Body" to be easy one click eg. F19. Cheers.
Hi Gary. Very useful. I use pages all the time. However, I have found that when using a text style in a Table, it does not show up in the paragraph styles. I can't find it to update it. Where would the Table text styles be found? Thank you.
Thanks for bringing out the hidden features ...One question...In a page document where something is written already...I want to change the background colour...How to do it? I had watched your earlier video on this...but that applies to a blank document not to the one already typed one
Open the Pages document in question and click on a portion of the document that ISN'T text. Clicking close to the edge of the (white) page usually works fine for this. Then look for the "Format" button in the upper right hand corner of the window. From there you can change the background of your document to No Fill, Color Fill, Gradient Fill, etc....hope this helps✌🏻
Hey Gary, I am starting to write a lot of papers for school so I was trying to create styles for APA format but when I bring up a new document it only shows the default styles. Is there a way to save them so you can use them in any new document or would I just have to create them every time? Thank you.
Can I ask a question? Pages has paragraph numbering. Great! But you can’t customize the numbering. Ms word can. I am a patent attorney. The patent office requires that paragraphs be numbered in this format [0001], etc. are you aware of any way to do this in pages? Years ago, I could creat a word document formatted with this numbering, and then open that in pages, and it would work. But about 2 years ago with a pages update, it stopped working…
HI Gary. Can you explain why I cannot use long quotations with there own style to flow continuously with the body text. They are like blocks and since some are quite long, they go to the next page leaving a big white space unusable. Thank you for all your tutorials.
Not sure what you are experiencing there. What do you mean by "long quotations?" So you mean text in quotes (like I just did in this comment) or some other element like a text box or something. I'll need a lot more information to help.
Gary your videos are great. Too bad the people at Apple do not understand how their computers work. I have encountered a problem with Styles that allows me to make some changes, i.e., use the update button, but in other cases when I'm adding underlining to a paragraph Style, it will not update it because not update button appears. In the manual it states (in an unbelievably convoluted way) that sometimes it will have an update button and sometimes not. It then goes on to say: "You can leave the override as is or update the paragraph style to incorporate the change." So that means you can't override with a new style if there is no update button. But what does it mean to "leave the override as is"? In my experience it means you can't update it without the update button. The sentences are so badly constructed that I have no idea what it means to leave the override "as is". I have been told by numerous Apple "executives" that's this is just the way it works,(!!) it shows the update button sometimes and doesn't at other times. They can provide no reason why this is the case. But computers don't just decide not to do something without a reason when you are taking the exact same steps do they? Aren't they programmed to do x if you do y and should continue to do so as long as you do x? Can you help in any way to explain this anomaly? HELP!
Good video....as far as it goes. I've come up against a wall though. Is it true that all stye creations are only document specific; i.e. they do not survive the document one is working on? I've been trying to manually modify the base styles to suit my needs -- styles that I can apply to future documents -- but, so far, have come up empty-handed... Bah!
That's right. So start a blank document, create the styles you need, then save it as a temple. Then use that template when you start a new document. Make it the default template if you want. Continue to modify and improve your template over time.
I have been using pages in the document mode for my notes. I have customised different styles for my liking but I have noticed that whenever I use a particular style for example heading 1 or heading 2 the subsequent ones bear a * mark and appear different (usually the text is not bold, but eh rest of the things like the font, font size, character spacing and ligatures are preserved). Can you help with this. Thanks.
Hey Gary I am missing a step and reviewed your video 3 x now. How do you get the asterisk and the update button to show up. If they do not show up then the simple one touch update all does not work. Also when I click on body it is still at Heading and I have to go select body. I thought if you place your cursor the style you chose would automaticlly come up. But it is not. Could you clarify that step please?
The * and update only show up with you select some text and make a change to that text that makes it different from the style it is using. When you select text or place the cursor in some text, it should update the sidebar to show the style for that paragraph. Not sure why it isn't for you.
Sorry. You are right my post is unclear. Is there a way to insert a print screen here? It seems not. So let me try again. My long quote is in retreat, a few inches from the margin, has many lines and has a footnote number at the end. When I try to write it as to follow the body text, it goes to the next page leaving an empty space on the page where I want to put it. Why can't it start on page x and continue on pageY . Thank you.
For instance- when you want to fix things so you do not have to keep going back and remembering you say "styles" , but the clicker goes to "Body". Then you are flying all over the place. I can't see how it is that you do what you are telling us to do. I am not an idiot. I am not old. But, I am new to all word processing. When I did my doctorate in music I paid someone to do this. Help! You could be so good for a beginner because you appear kind and gentle.
What I want to do though is to automatically select all the text in a document with a certain style and change that style to another style. I can't seem to find a way to do that.
Assuming you are talking about Styles and not just the characteristics of some text, you don't need to. Just change one paragraph that uses that Style, change it, and then update that style. I show this exact technique in this video.
Veery informative video. What I somehow can't understand is that when I try to do this in pages myself it doesn't work. When I type different text like you and I select a paragraph to change, it changes all the text in the document to that paragraph style. I can't seem to just make different parts of the text a different paragraph. Does anybody know a solution to that?
Gary could you please help me. When you open pages all the highlighted areas in blue seem to suddenly be orange in my pages. How can I change that back to blue?
Do you mean the selection color? Orange is the color used by Pages today. Go to System Preferences, General, Accent Color and Highlight Color to change this.
Very useful, thanks! I struggle with one thing though that occurs very often: 🥵I select just a line to change its style (eg to make it Heading 2 and keep the rest of the text as "body") but when I apply it, the entire text beneath it changes style and bocomes Heading 2 as well (although I had not selected it). Anyone could help me with this pls? Thank you!
@@macmost would love list styles as I’m writing notes, but I want to know for the different bullet points in my notes if they can have there own paragraph style.
@@macmost thanks tho I have been trying for the last 3 weeks, when using bullet list my first bullet 1 I want the title no matter when I am in note taking, second bullet A (tab in) I would want the sub title, have that as its own font, Then 3rd tab in body just as body. I would love if I got to my 1 tab it will just be title, and when I go to my A tab just be my sub title, and my 3rd tab just to be the body. No matter where I am with out changing each 1 myself.
Gary, how do I use the LOCK feature in Pages? I have a form I use each week for the song service in our church. I want the text to be static, so I can just "fill in the numbers and names, then print it.
You do give the info I want, and I thank you very much. After watching and pausing over and over the fog of your language lifts a bit. You need to examine the ways in which you use the word "paragraph". I am quite sure you have never had to lecture in a university. You take much too much for granted. I believe you would many more subscribers if you would slow down and really examine HOW you used your words.
@@macmost Hi! That's what I noticed. If I select a paragraph, either selected the text itself or just click inside the text-box, it shows me “Create IMAGE style”. If I select a text, is there no way to tell me “Create TEXT style"? Should I just go to the right side bar? Thx a lot!
@@toma1610 There are different kinds of styles in Pages. That menu item is for Object Styles. You can also create Paragraph Styles, Character Styles and List Styles that all have to do with text. Select the text, go to the Format sidebar, then Style, then at the top there are Paragraph styles and you can create those there.
I'm really frustrated by the fact that you can't save universal styles to be available every time you open a new document in pages. I mean, how is that not an option? It makes no sense.
Would you please warn those who want to write a book with many illustrations, captions, footnotes etc not to work with Pages. Nightmarish! I was so happy to learn all about styles and how to manage photos in the text that I naively thought my problems were over. I was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. To write a few pages it sure does the job but in a long document (of more than 300 p), you cannot imagine how complex it becomes when you make corrections. And writing, as we know, is constantly correcting, isn't? What would you recommend as a better program to write an illustrated book ? This has nothing to do with your super tutorials. Indeed, I wonder what I would do without them.
I've actually done a few books about that size. Using a lot of images is always a challenge, no matter what app you are using. What problem did you actually have? You said "how complex it becomes when you make corrections" but what was the actual problem you encountered?
OMG! You use the word "paragraph" to indicate the heading called Chapter 1!!! Do you see what I mean? Only a person who has used word processing instruments could understand this. Remember: YOU KNOW THE LANGUAGE!! I DO NOT!!
Never have I seen teaching so almost incoherent. Remember: YOU know the language. It is too fast, but I can pause and go back. The problem is that you seem to leave out crucial words which a beginner needs, anchor words. You have a nice, easy personality to teach. I am so frustrated because I would like for YOU to teach me. You know so much.WTF?
Example: the words are "Bullet Lists" , NOT "Bulesdiss"! Oh, I saw what you did. But, sometimes I wasn't able to translate your speaking AND find out what the hell your clicker was doing. Not being a dick, here. I believe I can help you.
