10 Tips For Writing In Pages
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- macmost.com/e-2621 Before worrying about how your finished document should look, concentrate on writing first. Use zoom, fonts, highlights and other writing tools in Pages to write a good book, report, memo or other document and then format it for reading later.
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00:00 Intro
00:43 1. Zoom In
01:14 2. Choose a Good Writing Font
02:19 3. Use Styles
04:39 4. Table Of Content View
05:47 5. Adjust Line and Paragraph Spacing
06:48 6. Create a Notes Style
08:06 7. Use Highlights or Comments
09:20 8. Show Invisibles
09:46 9. Word Count
10:22 10. Remove Distractions
11:04 Bonus: Learn Spelling
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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!!
This fellow is amazing. I have used Pages 365 days a year for more than 10 years and I never knew half of this stuff !
I’m new to Pages, and this is so helpful. Thank you, Gary!
I’ve been hunting for invisibles for a while without success. Always used it at work in Word. Thanks!
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.
Thanks so much. I’ve got a document to edit, so this is fortuitous timing! You’re always clear and make things easy to understand. Thanks:)
A very useful and a very informative video tutorial today! As always thanks for the visuals! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻👍❤️
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!
I hate Word soooo much. It makes me dizzy just to LOOK at the interface.
Perfect timing, Gary! I was looking for a video precisely like this one yesterday! Thanks a lot!
If everything in life was taught this clearly & precisely, we would all be so much better off! Awesome vid!
Incredibly helpful! Thank YOU!
You are a life saver ❤️ thanks for all the tips.
Great tips, clearly presented, many thanks.
I am an expert Pages user, nevertheless I always learn something new from Macmost videos. Thank you, Gary.
How do I center text vertically in pages?
Do you think pages is as good as word?
@@technicaldifficulties123 Pages is more fun to use.
@@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.
@@ZorbaPress hahahah why?
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,
So much value, thank you so much!
Thanks Gary, that was really info packed.
You are truly helpful!!
Your Awesome Channel is always my go-to for learning new computer skills! Thank you and happy new year
Great info Gary!
Very helpful indeed. Thanks.
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.
This actually gave such a nice and smooth time while writing my novel. Thank you so much.
Excellent Video Gary.
Very helpful - thanks!
This video is DOPE!!!!
This channel is a gold mine for mac users, that’s for sure!!!!
Excellent, thanks!
Great video, thanks!
Thank you. Very Useful.
Great information!
learning this sure could have saved me so much time! Thank you
Great tutorial! Thankssss : ) Not just about the software but also how to improve the writing exercise itself.
Thanks very much, Gary , for this informative video! This really helps understanding the remarkable abilities of Pages.
I just stated using Pages, so this has been very helpful to me. Very informative . Thank you
Thanks!! Very useful
Seems there's always something more to learn about Pages. Thank you!
Thanks for the great ideas and tips that are very helpful.
Using it for so long, still learned a lot. Thanks 😊
Thank you tons !
Awesome, thanks
Wow. I'm not new to Pages, and a few of these were really helpful! Thank you, kind sir!
Very useful thanks.
I love this channel 🎉
hey I just got my first Mac and you really help me out, thank you
So profitable as usual. Thank you Sir
You just answered my question of how to copy all the text at one time! Thank you! Command A!
very very helpful thanks!
Thank you, thank you, thank you AGAIN!
Thank you 🙏
Great video - thank you. Love and regards from India
Thanks Gary
Thank You my Friend for this Intro.
New camera? Looks good! Thanks for all your great info.
Amazing video! This is going to help write my bachelor thesis!
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?
Thanks bunches
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.
Gary is the King!
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.
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.
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.
very useful :)
Very good
Got to know many things, that I did't know before watching this video.
"Thank you"
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.
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 ?
Sorry, I don't know why that would be missing. Perhaps you have no styles like headings at all?
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.
If you had one hot tip for public speaking, what would that be?
@@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.
an other nice vid, it's such a pleasure to learn by means of you. Endless ...
Thanks Gary for your hard work as a teacher. Next video idea : Tips for using Pages in iPad
Pages is underrated. It's much advanced than word when typing and creating better documents easily. 😮😮
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 so much. I can't believe how stupid I was the past 3 years... but at least I know how to work with pages now ;)
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.
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.
Is there anyway to use reference managment softwares with Pages app? like Mendeley, zotero or Endnote?
Thanks so much. I'm looking for a tutorial for using EndNote in pages.
Sorry, I don't use EndNote.
This video has me so excited about Pages, and I don't even have anything to write.
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.???
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
Why can't you use Pages? Just get it from the App Store.
I need a video on "typing shortcuts" on Pages... like control-c x v... scroll up down.... tabs etc. without using the mouse. Thank you
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
Pages is great but getting words onto paper is the hurdle. What would you suggest for writers block?
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 th-cam.com/video/oVqka7TGdOA/w-d-xo.html
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).
Haven't run into that.
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 th-cam.com/video/7t9A_sYkAEY/w-d-xo.html
@@macmost Thanks, Gary. I hope Apple does implement that function some time in the future!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@macmost thanks, that worked cheers Pete
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’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.
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.
You get them here: developer.apple.com/fonts/
@macmost can you put a bulleted list inside a numbered list?
Sure. You can define what sort of bullets to use for each line. Try it and see.
1:56 Why I don‘t see the San Francisco Font Family on my mac? 5:40 Do you think the Table of Content is equivalent to the Schema View in MS Word?
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.
@@toma1610 Maybe you mean this? th-cam.com/video/bkoT64COwx0/w-d-xo.html
Good one! I’m considering writing all my serious emails, as in long letters to friends, in Pages first, then pasting the result into Mail, because I keep losing content I’ve created in Mail sort of randomly. This is extremely disturbing and frustrating. I’ve searched on Apple forums for similar problems and complaints and possible solutions, but to no avail. Am I really the only person in the universe who experiences this?
One of the symptoms is that my cursor gets moved from where I’m typing to the address line or subject line or some seemingly random location in my body text. Since I touch type, I often don’t notice this until I’ve typed a sentence or three and check to see if I’ve spelled everything right.
Another symptom is that the letter I’m writing will disappear altogether. I’ve learned that I can usually find it as a draft, often with extra space added at the top, and all too often with sizable chunks missing, including photos I’ve included in the text. When this happens the formatting is often changed so that each sentence becomes one paragraph that stretches across the screen so that I have to scroll sideways to see it all, and a return is placed after each sentence, so the paragraphs that I have composed are lost.
If you or anyone else who happens to read this has any ideas for causes or solutions, I’d be might grateful to learn how I might deal with this frustrating phenomenon.
It sounds like you are accidentally triggering keyboard shortcuts, or maybe touching the Trackpad unintentionally? Hard to guess what you could be doing that causes these things, but it is almost certainly something you are hitting while typing. If that is the case, then figuring it out is important as that can happen in any app, such as Pages.
What about the SF font family? Is there any reason you would or wouldn't recommend that?
If you like those, sure, use them if you want.
@@macmost Thanks.
Question. Why is it impossible to clear formatting on Mac? On windows it shift space bar but on Mac its impossible. why
Not sure what you are asking. Clear formatting to WHAT? Maybe describe with details what you want to do.
@@macmost Sorry text formatting. Like how windows has control space to revert the formatting to the base formatting of the document
@@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 th-cam.com/video/7t9A_sYkAEY/w-d-xo.html
EXCELLENT-how to remove green colour text entry box, that automatically comes up as you begin typing.
Not sure what you mean.
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Gary, is it possible in an epub document to set a hyperlink in the Table of Contents that will take the reader to the page of the content?
The table of contents feature works that way by default.
@@macmost After watching more of your instructive videos, I have understood how to use bookmarks to get most of what I want. One thing that escapes me is how to put a link in a footnote that will take the reader back to the TOC. Even formatting the TOC as Chapter style, it doesn't set appear in my TOC and allow me to link to it with bookmarks. What am I missing?
Never mind. I found the issue.
@@tomhearon6786 Sorry, I don't understand from your description what you are trying to do. Do you want to have a link in a footnote to page 1 (why?) or a link in the TOC to something? Note you can only have items in your BODY TEXT in the TOC. So if you are trying to link the TOC to a footnote, that won't work. But not sure why a footnote would be in the TOC anyway.
@@macmost Thank you. I was trying to set a bookmark in the TOC that I could link to from a footer entry. My problem is that I had entered "Table of Contents" in a text box and not as body text. When I erased it and wrote it into the real document, I was able to make a proper link and get the job done right.
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
Is there a way to enter automatic numeric sequence inside sentences or paragraphs? Thank you in advance. There is a this feature in Microsoft Word.
Not sure what you mean. Can you give an example?
@@macmost Here is an example: Colors that I like are 1. blue, 2. red, 3. yellow, and 4. green.
In this example, I want the numeric sequence to automatically adjust. Say in case I delete “2. red” and then yellow will become number 2 and green will become number 3.
@@joerizbalatbat8103 Sounds like you just want a numbered list. See the beginning of this video: th-cam.com/video/qDpPS61cjp8/w-d-xo.html
@@macmost What I mean is that the number sequence are on the same line
@@joerizbalatbat8103 I don't know of a way to do it on one line, sorry. Usually lists are on multiple lines. Maybe I'm not getting the full picture here.