Pages+-+hints+and+tips

Using Pages:
The video tutorials in pages are a great introduction - they will get you started. They are short and to the point tutorials [] -or- Open the application (Pages, or Keynote), and click on the help button to access the video tutorials.

To change the background colour in a template, you may need to unlock the document.
To unlock: click on the feature that you want to change, then select 'Arrange' from the top toolbar, and click on 'unlock'

Pages - Inspector
To format many of the features in a doc, click on in the pages doc toolbar

The inspector menu appears to the right of the doc.



There are a number of sub-menus in the inspector: (left to right) **Document, Layout, Wrap, Text, Graphic, Metrics, Table, Chart, Link, Quicktime**

Each menu has several sub-menus.

The most used functions are:

 * Document menu**: use to alter document margins and Table of contents
 * Layout Men**u: Use to create columns in a document
 * Wrap Menu**: to alter the way text and images work together on the page (click on the image that you are placing before selecting this menu)
 * Graphic Menu**: to alter the way a document looks - change fill colour, reflection & shadow under a photo, put a frame around a photo (stroke) (click on the image or shape that you are placing before selecting this menu)
 * Metrics Menu**: Changes size of picture, and rotate it to sit on an angle
 * Table and Chart menus** - these are not usually used for everyday Pages Docs, but if you are using Tables ad Charts will be useful
 * Link Menu**: to insert a link into your doc
 * Quicktime Menu**: Used when inserting Quicktime movies in Keynote

Importing/exporting word docs into pages
To open a word doc in pages, simply drag the unopened doc into the Pages logo in your dock. Pages will open and convert the Doc format into Pages. To save a Pages doc as a Word doc: Click on 'File' in the top Menu, then select 'Export' - you have a choice of saving the file as a PDF or Word Doc.