

In this guide, I showed an overview of opening, deleting, and creating documents in the open dialog. Don't worry, and new line will not be put into your document when the suggestions popup is shown. Navigate this list with the right and left arrow keys, and choose one with the return key. The Mac will correct many misspellings you make, and if it can't, arrowing over the word will show a list of suggested words. In Pages, you can write in text fields normally, as you do in mail, Safari, Messages, and text edit. Untitled window, Body, edit text." This means that you are in Pages, in a window called untitled, and are in the body text field in the document. When you first create a new, blank document, you'll be placed in the box in which you'll be typing. When you're ready, arrow to the "blank" template and press return. You can use your arrow keys to go through them, and choose one with the return key. For now, know that the template chooser is a grid. You can set a default template, but we'll focus on that later. When you create a new document, you'll first need to choose a template for it. If you want to create a new document, press command+N. If you want to open one, just press return on the one you want.

If you wish to delete one, press command+delete. You'll be placed within your iCloud file list, and you can use your up and down arrow keys through these. When you open Pages, you'll be placed in the Open dialog box. Return is the name of the key in Mac and Linux circles.įirst, I'll focus on what happens when a user opens pages, who has installed it and looked around for a bit, and just gave up a little, thinking that the interface is too cluttered to be useful. Please remember that, as I go through these tutorials, that I'll be using the "return" key word instead of "enter" which is common in Windows.
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I'm going to try to dispel some of that fear by giving you all tutorials on how to use features of pages, and sometimes comparing them to features of Windows, for those who are just starting out. It is powerful, quick, but often mysterious and shrouded in myth and legend. As most Mac users know, Pages is the word processor supplied by Apple.
