How To Make Multi-Column Documents In Pages
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- macmost.com/e-2009 You can create multi-column documents in Pages in either word processing or page layout mode. Using multiple columns in word processing is just a matter of a single setting, but you can adjust the columns as you wish. You can even have sections that use different numbers of columns. Page layout documents use individual text boxes that can be linked to form versatile columns. There are many reasons to use columns, such as to create a newspaper-style layout, wrap text around images, or fit long lists on to few pages.
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This is a great explanation. Lots of helpful info, explained clearly and efficiently, with no meandering filler talk. Well done!
Exactly what I was looking for! The text box idea worked for the type of columns I was wrestling with - great workaround! And appreciate the speed you diseminate info without all the filler chat. (So refreshing.) Thank you!
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Gary, I love your videos. THANK YOU! I am looking for the video you did on Pages showing how to globally change a word or term to a new word or term. Please share the video link. I seem to remember you did a video on this recently. Example: I am a Pages Doc with the word LOUD written dozens of times. I want to change the word to SOFT.
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Great video, thank you! Quick question.. How did you make this video? I'd like to be able to make videos like this where you can share your screen and still have a video of yourself in the corner.
You are a wealth of knowledge. I have viewed several of your vids. Thanks. Now on the other hand... I have used a PC for the longest time making columns with a section of data was by far simpler than my MAC. Very frustrating. Any easier method of taking a section of data & make columns without messing the other layout? Thanks.
You didn't;'t mention which app you used to make columns on your PC? Is that app available for the Mac? If so, then why not use it if you like how it works?
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Do you have a video where it shows you how to make 2 5x7 margins side by side? I'm trying to create a wedding invitation and can only find videos how to do it using ms word.
i wish they would make it easier for us simpletons, it's almost like yeah you need to study engineering first to write a damn document with two columns fitting in one page!
thanks so much! my resume looks so much less crappy and empty now lol
I want it landscape looking like that
Hey, is there way to prevent the gap between letters in a word, when i arrange the columns? In the last of your video can see there is a gap between letters in a word. I don’t mind the gap between the words, but i do mind the gap between letters. Please let me know to solve this
Hi Gary!
I came to your video looking for exactly this... But in the web browser. Do you have any browser tips or add ons to do the same?
I have a 22" wide monitor, I use it for videos and reading/writing. But it's really bad to have to keep using the mouse scroll (or PgUp/PgDn or Vim keys) repeatedly to read articles and news.
I even tried to make this monitor vertical, but it is old (and for technical reasons, the contrast is bad at this angle) :-(
I'm not sure what you are trying to do here. This video is about multi-column Pages documents, but you are asking about web browsing. Can you use macmost.com/ask and ask again with all of the details? Thanks.
Hi, thanks for the video, is great! how can I do it with a Table of Content? I want to divide it in 2 in the sbme page...
I don't think there is a way.
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I followed your steps exactly. I mean, it isn't complicated. Nonetheless, the document is still one column.
do you have more videos about those section, column, line, page break? Those seems to change the game a bit. I found that some things that i did easily on Word, has some extra steps using those options.
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I enjoy the tutorials and have visited many in looking for something I do not think has been discussed. My question is how to set up a document where each page has a large main body column and a sidebar column. What I want to happen is that the text in the main body flows from page to page without adding to the sidebar column. My intention is to use the sidebar to add more detailed information to the main body of text on that page. What I was hoping for is to set up a template to do just this type of document. Thank you, Gary
Just use a Word Processing document, then change the margins of the main body of text to leave a lot of space on the left or right. Then add text boxes there as needed.
@@macmost Thank you for the reply. I will do that. I was thinking there might be a slick way to generate a template with 2 text box columns on the page and then be able to add pages with preset text boxes applied and have the text wrap into the same column on the next page.
You know what. I was so stupid :) and created table inside, and it was like a nightmare, each time I should cut text at a specific position to fit it in those columns.
Hello Gary, so would this work if i had lets say i had 12 pages of, Names, and Start Dates ( two columns). will this turn the 12 pages into 6 pages? I am so green in this.
If the lines only covered half the width of the page, then yes. But why not just try it and see?
Hey,
I have a problem about the section break for the column.
For example if I have a CV (and two column) and have some information on the left column about adress and education and on my right colum I writ about my job experience.
If I tap to next page it would not follow the page befor, the left columt jumps to the right on and vice verse.
What do I do wrong?
I can't find it .
Not sure what you are doing, sorry. Experiment and play around and I'm sure you'll get it to work the way you want.
Hi Gary, I am creating a one page resume with two columns on part of the page. How do I go about doing this?
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You can either do it as a word processing document and make that section two columns, or do it as a page layout document and just use all text boxes for everything.
I have a table with three columns. How do I move the right margin further out.
Go to the Format sidebar, the Layout section. Expand the "Columns" section. Then turn off "Equal column width." Then set the width of the first column, then the second. The third column will use the remaining space.
I'm trying to BALANCE the 2-columns on the last page of a 3-page word processing document in Pages 10 but so far, without success. I've tried inserting a SECTION Break after the last word of the document, hoping that I could then format this new section with one-column which word force the columns above to balance. However, when I insert this SECTION Break pages inserts a new page?! Thoughts or ideas please.
A section break starts an entirely new section. What you want is probably a column break. But as far as "balancing" goes, if this is body text then try inserting a rectangle shape the same color as the background at the bottom and make sure text wrapping is set to it pushes the text up. Then enlarge the shape as needed to push the text into even columns.
@@macmost as I suspected... FWIW, in MS Word inserting a section break after the last word on the last page of a multicolumn document forces the text in the columns above to horizontally balance evenly. That said, I've found a klutzy workaround: insert an empty text box that reaches from left margin to right margin on the last page and adjust the vertical height accordingly. Thanks for your prompt reply.
I viewed this video (great info!) to find how to insert a vertical line between columns to break it up. Is there a way to do that?
You just need to add a line shape where you want.
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Question. I want to create a large two column document where I dump text in one column and have a parallel text in another language in the other. Basically and interlinear. Is this possible?
There's no special feature just for that. But you can certainly use this technique. Or, you could create two text boxes.
@@macmost Right, thanks, I am creating parrellel boxes each page, and there will be over 200 pages. Coffee.
Do you have a more current tutorial video? Pages looks completely different now.
Should work the same. What are you not finding?
Please tell me where convert to page layout on IPad Pro is
Tap the ... button. Go to Document Setup. Turn off "Document Body."
Do you ever answer questions on the phone? Lol. I am so frustrated with doing something particular on IPad Pro
@@snugbear2 Yes. But the best place to ask me is macmost.com/ask, not here in the comments. Thanks.
How do I create a text box on IPad Pro?
Tap the + button. Tap the shapes tab (square+circle). Go to the Basics section. The first item is "Text."
I have another column issue. I edit videos and I'm usually given a Word doc. with two columns. Right side is the script and the left side is for video instructions. You can work in either column without affecting the other column. It's like two completely separate pages on each page and you don't have to do return, return, return, etc. to get to where you want to be on the video instructions column. You can click anywhere in the column and the cursor goes there. I like Pages and it really bugs me that I can't figure out how to do this in Pages. I tried to insert a screen grab example but apparently that's not something you can do here.
This probably isn't using columns at all. In Pages I would create a Page Layout document (not a word processing one) and put a text box on the left and a text box on the right.
What if you have two full document columns, the left in English, the right in another language paralleling the translation with the left columns? It seems I do have to go to convert page layout and do page by page? I did get good info off here too. But my main goal..... 10 pages of English in a left column, and it's Spanish translation in a right column remains unknown or a dedicated 20 minutes of convert/copy/paste/move/convert/copy/paste/move/convert/copy/paste/lol
You could do it as a Word Processing document using Column Breaks. Or you could do it as Page Layout using two text boxes, one on each side.
@@macmost Yeah, but one column going down many pages, not just single page at a time. Possible? Then I can paste one shot, the several translations that run along the left side, page after page after page, not single page by single page etc. THANK YOU !!!
Can columns cross pages? Yes. But the two column fill up, left to right, then next page left to right and so on. A quagmire if you want. ;)
I have seen this using two pages, left and right. Perhaps that would work better....
How do I make a double column of bulleted items
Just switch to 2 columns and then do a normal bullet list.
When I type in "Page 1" on the first page, all pages become page 1. This should be easier.
Looks like I have some work to do. Sigh.
How to insert a horizontal page in a document?
You can't mix different page sizes in the same document.
HELP, P L E A S E !! I have "Pages; version 10.1" and this program is NOT responding in the same way at all as Gary is showing here!!
When I switched to "Page Layout" mode the "Selections Page" TOTALLY disappear, so not only is there NO possibility of selecting how wide the GUTTERS ARE (which is what I was looking for), but I can't E V E N select how many columns!! All that is displayed to the right of "the document" is a thumbnail of page orientation, the word "Blank", a grayed-out "Change Master", a couple of other lines of things not available for change. And under the "Document tab" (far right upper corner), printer preferences come up, page orientation selection, several lines of other stuff having to do with headers, footers, "hyphenation", & "ligatures".
Is "4 YEARS AGO" too far back to help me with my c u r r e n t issue??
This is for Word Processing mode. If you want multiple columns in Page Layout mode you simply make multiple text boxes and link them together.
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Is there a way to face columns in facing pages?
Not sure what you mean. How would "to face columns" be different than regular columns?
You’re assuming your viewers know what the “Gutter” is. I don’t!
Gutter: "the blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet." (from the Mac dictionary)
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