iWork: Pages
Create documents in Pages, save them in different formats, add graphics, movies, music, and make them your own.
Pages Toolbar:
Pages: Adds a new text page
Columns: Allows you to add up to four columns.
Style: Sets style for titles, headings, lists, and body
Lists: Creates lists with bullets, letters, and numbers.
Objects: Allows you to add shapes, graphs, charts, and tables.
Wrap: Allows you to change preferences for text wrapping.
Text: Inserts a text box that can be moved and expanded to meet your needs.
Inspector: Similar to the Word document Pallet. It allows you to center text, change spacing, and color.
Media: Inserts photos, video, and music from you library.
Colors: Your color center for text, background, and images.
Fonts: Select from a wide variety of fonts, sizes, colors, and other preferences.
Getting Started:
Step One: Select a template:
Templates come in a variety of styles and functions. You can choose one you like and customize it to fit your needs, or choose a blank template and create your own.
Step Two: Customize
The pre-made templates give you a starting point for newsletters, journals, resumés and other educational documents.
To make it your own, simply click the Media icon and find a picture that you want in your document. Just drag and drop it over the picture that already is in place and Pages will automatically replace it with your picture.
To add your own text, double click in the areas with text and begin typing. Again, the template will make way for your changes. Since the template puts the pre-generated text in a different language, it will be easy to find places that have not been changed.
Special Features:
Pages allows you to add unique elements to your document, helping it to reach your audiences and be an effective means of communication.
Objects:
Within objects you can add charts, tables, shapes, and text. These objects can be moved, resized, and customized.
Shapes: Shapes can be added to your page to add color, identify important information, or add text to images.
Tip: When adding bubbles or shapes first click on an image. By selecting any image, the shape with automatically be on the top layer. This means you can move your shapes anywhere on the page and on top of images. If you forget to click on an image and you were typing last, the shape will be put into your text and be stationary.
Graphs/Charts:
To add a chart, go to objects and select chart.
When the chart appears you will see a window that shows the type of chart as well as other options.
To change the data to your own, select the Edit Data button on the chart window. This will pull up a spreadsheet that you can add your information to.
Selecting Different Types of Charts:
With this feature, you can create pie, column, stacked column, stacked bar, line, area, and stacked area charts.
To pick the one you want, again look to the Chart Pallet that appears when you insert your chart. Click on the picture of the chart and you will see many options.
Tip: The chart pallet can also be found in the Inspector. If you loose the chart pallet or close the window before you are finished, just go to the blue circle and click on the icon at the top that looks like a graph. This will show you your options.
Saving in Different Formats:
Why you may ask? Because many people do not have the same fancy programs as you, and in order to share them with everyone else (PC’s) you will need to save them in a format that anyone can understand.
Sound Tricky? It’s not.
So you are all done with your page. You want to send it out in an email to people who don’t have Pages or are using Word. Save your document as you normally would. Then go to: File> Export.
You will See many options.
Pick the one that fits your need.
Doc: This will save the document as a Word file that PC users can read and modify. Note that some of your awesome formatting may be lost since Word can not read all of your fancy layout.
PDF: This is the way to go if you are sending out a news letter that does not need to be changed.
As a PDF the document will be just like a picture, all of your work will be preserved and ready to print or read. It will not be modifiable to those who open it, but it is the best way to send in attachments.
