MacLife - USA (2019-09)

Make a blank document

In Pages’ template chooser, tap Create

Document and choose Blank. Tap More (...)

> Document Setup > Document Setup icon

(top right). To use page layout mode, turn off

Document Body. Turn off Header and Footer.

Set your margins

Setting page margins here should help

make a neat layout. Oddly, in page layout

mode, Pages ignores them. We’ll work around

that. Tap the + icon, pick a square from the

shapes tab, and resize it to fit the margins.

THE UPDATES TO Pages,

Numbers and Keynote for iOS

that were announced at the

end of March added the ability

to save templates, plus more related

features. You still can’t create the text

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templates — which can be tapped once to

type over — but you can now set images

as placeholders.

You can already tap any image, tap the

brush icon in the toolbar at the top right,

go to the Image tab, and tap Replace to

Templates in Pages

You can now make your own templates for Pages documents

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When you set an image as a Placeholder,

it gets a little + icon in the bottom right

corner that does the same, but faster.

You can now switch Pages word

processor documents to page layout mode

(and vice versa), rather than the mode

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when creating a document. Finally, any

objects that you create can be saved, and

will sync via iCloud, so you can use them

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to do so. ADAM BANKS

GENIUS TIP

To see and select pages

and master pages, tap the

icon next to Documents

at the top left of Pages’

main view, and turn on

Page Thumbnails.

REQUIRES

An iPad with iOS 11 or

later, Pages 5.0 or later

YOU WILL LEARN

How to set up a template

with replaceable

preset content

IT WILL TAKE

40 minutes

HOW TO Create and save a template

Create

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