HOW DOES ONE MAKE A DIFFERENT SECOND PAGE LAYOUT

I modified one of the business template letterheads provided with pages '06 and this is fine for one page letters. It involved my company details and logo down the side (with the company name in the header box) so that the area for the letter has been reduced to about 0.75 of the page. I now want to add a second page for letters than go onto another page, but I do not want the company details + logo down the side and want the area for the letter to be the full area of the page. Pages will not change the width of the main body column for the second page only. It also changes the first page as well, even though I have click 'different first page'. I have tried page break, column break, section break etc to no avail. Any ideas anybody please.

dcm

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Feb 2, 2008 6:11 AM

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Feb 2, 2008 9:05 AM in response to dcm18

Okay, it took a bit of fiddling, but I was able to get what you said you wanted: no repeating company info, and page 2 margins moved over to the left. Here's how I did it.

- Click on company info. Notice that it's in a box with blue squares. That indicates it's defined as a master object. Master objects repeat on every page, which is why you also saw this info on page 2. To change this object's behavior, click on Format > Advanced > Move Object to Page. No more blue boxes. No more master object behavior. No more repeating on subsequent pages.

- As for the margins, that was trickier. Assuming you haven't created a page 2 yet (if you have, delete it), put your cursor at the end of page 1, after your name. Click on Insert > Page Break. You should now have a page 2. Click on the document inspector > Document button. Notice the left-hand margin is set at 2.5 inches. Change that to 1.0 inches. Now we want to select all the text on page 1. Put your cursor before Address Name, and drag it down the page to the end of page 1, just after your own name. The entire page, except for objects, should be selected. Go up to the ruler (if the ruler's not visible, click on View > Show Rulers). At the 1.0 inch mark, you'll see a little downward-pointing triangle with a tiny horizontal bar on top of it. Click on that triangle (not the bar), and drag it to the 2.5 inch mark on the ruler.

What have we got? The page 1 margin is now 2.5; page 2 margin is 1.0. That seems to be what you wanted. If you like this document the way it is, click on File > Save As Template, then give it a name like DCM's Business Letter, or whatever you want to call it. Once you've saved it as a template, it will be shown in the My Templates section of the template browser.

Hope this helps.

-Dennis

Feb 4, 2008 9:16 AM in response to DennisG

I think this needs to be addressed by Apple. I can do it in Microsoft Office:Mac: word with the 'from this point onwards' and should be able to do it pages. It is the one and probably only thing in microsoft word that makes a document easier to format as one does not have to keep going back and moving arrows or whatever they are called.

Thanks Dennis for all your help, but I'm going to pass this crib onto Apple and hopefully it will get to pages 4.

dcm18

Feb 4, 2008 10:28 AM in response to dcm18

dcm,

You don't have to keep going back and adjusting the arrows. Set it up the way you want -- once. Then define it as a style. That way, whenever you want those margins, just click on the paragraph style. It couldn't be easier.

By the way, if Apple implemented all the can't-live-without features that people suggest, we'd wind up with an application as bloated and unwieldy as Word.

-Dennis

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