Pages FAQ

The new Pages 5 file package format contains binary .iwa files that seem unreadable by other applications. This makes it very difficult or even impossible to recover file content if you are on a...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2013/11/undocumented-proprietary-file-format-in.html

Update for the list below: Apple have for once admitted that things aren't perfect. Some of the removed functionality will come back according to a support article.   They say that the follow...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2013/10/some-less-good-news-with-pages-5.html

With Pages 5, there is some good news for people who write in Chinese or Japanese: One can finally add phonetic guides (furigana) in Pages, both in Pages for Mac OS X and in Pages for iOS. In ...

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Pages 5 is out there with a long list of interesting new problems to solve and a few new features. I cannot promise that this blog will be updated to reflect Pages 5. It was easy to keep the blo...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2013/10/pages-5-and-pages-09-and-this-blog.html

Even though I have assembled quite a lot of information, questions and quirks about Apples word processor Pages, it is not a program I feel particularly connected with. It is a word processor fr...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2013/09/pages-and-icloud-unlikely-winner.html

In most applications, you can save an open file under a new file name with File > Save as... or shift-command-S. In recent versions of Pages and TextEdit, the command is File > Duplicate > Fil...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2012/04/pages-save-as.html

Yes! From version 9.0.4 released in August 2010. With the advent of iBook and the iPad, the epub file format is getting more useful, and luckily Apple released the functionality. This is one of ...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2010/08/can-pages-create-epub-files.html

The easiest way seems to be to use iCloud . Activate it on the iPad with Settings > iCloud > Documents & Data. This will automatically send all your documents to Apple, and you can then download...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-do-i-batch-transfer-pages-documents.html

Some PDF files from Pages for iPad are distorted or unreadable when opened in Adobe Reader. They display much better in Preview, but as Windows users do not have Preview, this is not much of cons...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2010/04/ipad-cannot-create-usable-pdf-files.html

If you start Pages on an iPad, you may get stuck without any controls and no obvious way out. If you are in landscape mode, the simple trick is to rotate the iPad 90 degrees to portrait mode, an...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2010/04/pages-stuck-on-ipad.html

I just realised that there was another office suit out there apart from the "obvious" ones, iWork, MS Office and OpenOffice/NeoOffice . IBM has their own version of OpenOffice, called Lotus Sym...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/12/tempting-alternative-lotus-symphony-for.html

Pages is not a Word replacement. If you want a product that saves Word documents, you are better off with MS Word (which costs more) or NeoOffice/OpenOffice (which cost nothing). Pages can expor...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-do-i-save-as-word-document.html

One of the crucial things in making a chart is to have connector points between boxes and other objects, so the links can stay the same, even if you move the objects around. The connector poi...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-do-i-make-organisation-chart-or.html

If you want to search for paragraph marks, tabs or other special characters in Pages, you can do that in the search dialogue (Edit > Find > Find...) using the Insert... drop down. If you prefe...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-do-i-find-paragraph-marks-and-tabs.html

To quickly learn some of the keyboard shortcuts in Pages, the easiest way is to look in the menus. In the menu above, you can for example see that you use command+C to copy. These are the symb...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/04/keyboard-shortcuts-in-pages.html

Let's say that you write a text about someone with the incredibly attractive name "Magnus". The name is underlined in Pages as incorrectly spelt, if you type in English. To add the name to your s...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-do-i-unlearn-words-from-spelling.html

With Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) some people got problems printing PDF/X files. It seems the people who did not get problems did not print complicated documents. Problem one - some documents. Certa...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/01/pdfx-problems-in-leopard.html

The new version of iWork has a few issues with security that previous versions did not have. Note that I have no personal experience of any of the issues below, but I rely entirely on other sourc...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/01/iwork-09-and-security.html

If you open documents created with Pages '08 in Pages '09, it is possible that the layout does not look the same any more. One possible error source is a bug in Pages '08, which made some fonts ...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-did-layout-of-my-old-pages-document.html

If you for some reason want to change a Pages '09 single file document to a package type document, you can follow these steps. Unzip the single file. Put the unzipped content in a new folder. R...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-do-i-change-single-file-pages.html

If you want to see the elements included in your Pages '09 file, you can simply unzip it, using the command unzip in a terminal window. To avoid any accidents with large numbers of files spread ...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-do-i-see-what-my-file-contains.html

There is a new version of iWork out there today. This is an incomplete list of new functionality in Pages '09/Pages 4.0: Full screen view Dynamic outlines Mail Merge integration with Numbers S...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2009/01/iwork-09-released.html

This comparison is inspired by Wikipedia's Word vs. Pages comparison, but it is about OpenOffice instead of Word, and it contains some personal observations. It does not cover all the difference...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2008/11/openoffice-30-and-pages-30-comparison.html

SVG files are "images" which can be resized without losing any information. They can be created by programs like OpenOffice (the drawing module), Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator. Often the progra...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-do-i-get-svg-files-into-pages.html

If you have Pages running fine for one user on one computer, but you have problems on another, it is possible that the preferences are corrupted. The quickest and dirtiest way to check this is t...

http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2008/10/which-are-my-preferences.html