Apple Pages for Mac. Basics of Using Apple s Pages for Mac. Choose to enable icloud. Manage Documents. Choose a Template for New Documents

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1 Apple Pages for Mac Simple iphone, ipad, and Apple Training Basics of Using Apple s Pages for Mac When you start Pages for the first time, you will be greeted with a few welcome screens. They look similar to this screen. Choose to enable icloud icloud is a great way to sync and backup documents between your Mac, PC, ipad and iphones. Everyone gets 5GB of free storage for documents and data. Manage Documents Each time you start Pages, you can: Start a New Document Open and icloud Document Open a Document on your Mac In icloud you manage documents more like on your iphone or ipad. To create a folder, just drag and drop one file onto another. Choose a Template for New Documents Pages comes with 60 great templates to get your net project started quickly or choose a blank template to get started.

2 Setup Your Document Click on the Gear Icon to find two panels with various settings for your document. Most of the options are self eplanatory. Document Body- removes the main body of the document and creates a Page Layout Document Advanced Tip: Application Settings While each document is controlled by the settings described above, the application as a whole is controlled by these settings. If you regularly use one template to start New Documents why not make it the default?

3 Media Tab Table Tab Tet Tab Share Tab View Tab Insert Tab Chart Tab Shape Tab Use The Toolbar The image above is a list of all the available options in the toolbar. View Tab- Enables you to see many options in the document. Insert Tab- Inserts sections and special features in the document. Table Tab- Inserts a Table with various formatting into the document. Chart Tab- Inserts a Tet Bo into the document. Shape Tab- Inserts a shape into the document. Media Tab- Inserts Photos, Music, or Movies into the document. (Why Music or Movies? Pages can be used to create Multimedia E-Books and more than just tet documents) Comment Tab- Adds a comment into the document on an item or highlighted tet. Share Tab- Gives you options to share your document. Tips Tab- Displays or hides some hints. They will change based on what you are looking at. Format & Setup Tabs- Are discussed in other sections of this class. Shared links via icloud can be opened on a Mac or PC simply by clicking on the link.

4 Editing Body Tet Click into the main body of the document to begin editing the body tet. (This does not work if you have enabled Page Layout Mode, or Removed the Body Tet from the Document Setup). Paragraph Styles When editing Body tet you can change the Paragraph Styles. Paragraph Styles are preset styles that can be set and applied to multiple sections of tet throughout the document. You can also change these styles by Selecting Tet, altering the Formatting Options, and clicking on Update. Formatting Options Of course, you can always change formatting by highlighting some tet and changing the formatting options. There are additional settings under the Layout and More Tabs as well.

5 Editing A Tet Bo Think of the Body Tet as an embedded part of the document. You can t move the tet around on the page because it s a part of the document. A Tet Bo on the other hand is a floating bo that holds tet. Because it s floating, it has additional styling options. The Style Pane holds some pre-formatted styles in the top section and additional ways to adjust the styling including boarders, shadows and adding a reflection below the tet. The Arrange Pane give you options on how the floating tet bo will interact with the other elements on the page. These options include how tet will wrap around the bo, what layer the bo lives on and other options. Here are two additional panes of options

6 Working With Images Images have the same Style and Arrange Options as Tet, but they have different options because they are images. Edit Mask- A Mask can be used to hide a portion of the image. The Edit Mask option will use a simple rectangle to mask the image. If you want to mask the image in the shape of a star or another shape, you can do so by using the Format-Image-Mask With Shape option. Instant Alpha is a tool which can be used to remove the background in an image. It works best when the background is a single color. To use the tool, click on Instant Alpha then click on the background color you want to remove and drag until the area of the background you want to remove is highlighted. Adjustments is a section where the coloring of the image can be adjusted.

7 Some Advanced Features: While we can t cover all the feature of Pages, here are a few noteworthy and useful features. Comments. Select an item or highlight some tet and click on Comment in the Toolbar to add a comment. Comments are useful, especially if you share the document on icloud. Multiple people can comment on a shared document for better collaboration. Change Tracking- Enable Change Tracking by clicking Edit-Track Changes Reduce File Size- Many of us use unnecessarily large photos and images in our documents. File-Reduce File Size will compress the images to save disk space and enable easier sharing. Table of Contents- Insert-Table of Contents is a command which will enable you to automatically generate a Table of Contents based on the Paragraph Styles used in the document. Choose what you want to include in the Table of Contents. Need more help, contact Arlen at (808) Arlen@HawaiiWP.com