Tag: pages
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Taking control of your Function keys
Today I stumbled upon a fantastic application called Fluor that allows you to choose which mode the function keys operate in based on which application is open!
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How to find missing OSX fonts in Keynote
Last week I installed a new font, but it was not available in my keynote. It turns out the Apple font dialog doesn’t display all the fonts anymore. (Not sure how long it’s been doing that!) But here’s where to find them.
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How to extract an image from a Pages document
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How to get a Pages document into a Teleprompter on an iPad
During COVID our church ran a livestream online and the best way to speak straight to the camera was to use a teleprompter. Setting up the iPad and camera was the easy part. There were a few tricks to get it to display how we wanted. Here’s how we did it.
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How to draw a simple flow diagram in Apple Pages
Create some shapes in Apple Pages. Go to ‘Arrange’ and make sure ‘Stay on Page’ is selected. (Not ‘Move with Text’). Select the shapes you want to join. (Command-click to select more than one shape). From the ‘Insert’ Menu choose ‘Insert Connection Line’ and it will join the shapes with a line. Move the shapes…
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Apple admits that Pages cannot print in greyscale.
Last month I described a bug in Apple Pages which caused Pages to place hidden color information in greyscale documents. This is fine if you are printing at home but if you take those documents to a commercial printer you will be charged at color copy rates instead of black and white. At our local…
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Apple printing bug costing users thousands of dollars.
A bug in Apple’s OS X printing software could see consumers unknowingly pay thousands of dollars extra in printing bills. The bug causes some black and white documents to be billed as colour documents by an attached printer. Businesses on a commercial printing plan will be potentially paying thousands of dollars extra in printing bills.…
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How to open Apple Pages documents on an Android Phone.
Summary: Here’s an app that will let you read an Apple Pages document on an Android phone.
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How to type the copyright symbol “©” on a Mac
To type the copyright symbol simply hold down the option key and press the ‘g’ key. Option-g will type the copyright symbol in any program. This works in Mail, Pages, Microsoft Word, Keynote etc.
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How to access your old iPhoto library without iPhoto
Here’s how to access an individual photo from an old iPhoto library without having to upgrade the entire iPhoto library.
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How to get an image or photo out of an Apple Pages document
I was recently given a Pages document to print for someone but the picture was too dark. In this article I described how to get a photo out of keynote, so I thought I’d give it a go with Pages – it worked! I was able to extract the Photo as full resolution, edit it…
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How to get awesome templates for Pages documents
I was in a rush to do some graphic design last week and I went searching for pre-made design templates for Pages. The last time I did this it was a waste of time – the ‘professional’ templates were, well, my kids could do a better job. This time though I found some stunning templates.
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How to add a drop shadow to an image
Here’s how to use Pages to quickly add a drop-shadow to an image. This is what it looks like:
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How to Share a Pages file with a Windows user.
Here’s how to share a pages document with a PC user.
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Upgrading to Mavericks
A few important tips before you install Mavericks that could say you a lot of time and agony…
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How to make a Photo Object using Pages.
Here is how to make a photo object from any photograph using Pages, the standard OSX word processor.
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How to change the default font style in Apple Pages
Here’s how to change the default font, size, colour etc of a new Pages document so that every new document will have the style you want.
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How to open multiple inspector windows in Pages
If you hold down option while clicking it will open a new inspector window alongside the existing one!
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How to print a PDF booklet.
By booklet I mean A4 pages folded in half to make an A5 booklet that you staple in the middle…
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How to read a docx file in Word 2004
If you keep getting sent .docx files and can’t open them in Word 2004, Microsoft have a free converter available.
