pages randomly grouping together things with irritating yellow box

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pages randomly grouping together things with irritating yellow box

how do I take control of this grouping? it's randomly creating its own sections ... it now has 4 pages in one which is weird ... I need to delete a specific page and it won't let me without taking down the rest ...

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Nov 7, 2008 6:06 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 11, 2008 7:53 AM in response to mce323

I agree that the sectioning is random. Sometimes it creates 3-4 grouped pages and then stops and the next few pages are independent...and then a few pages later, they become grouped again..makes it hard to copy and duplicate specific pages.
Between the vanishing pages in multi-page documents and random page grouping sometimes pages isn't worth the effort.

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Answer 2

Nov 12, 2008 2:59 PM in response to mce323

I think you are attempting this newsletter in Word Processing mode, which is the wrong mode for this job, try using the Layout mode and creating the text boxes and image boxes independently and linking them as necessary to get the text flow.

Apple has a good set of basic tutorials on its website which will show you how to go about this.

http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/

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Answer 3

Walt K

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Nov 10, 2008 8:49 PM in response to mce323

Put a Section Break before and after the page you want to delete.

Walt

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KOENIG Yvan

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Nov 8, 2008 10:16 AM in response to mce323

Pages doesn't create sections randomly.
It creates them at the user request.

You may look at page 53 (English version) in the PDF User Guide which is delivered with every copy of iWork.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 8 novembre 2008 19:16:50)

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mce323 Author

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Nov 10, 2008 1:45 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

nope, it's seemingly pretty random, I can't figure out how to undo it ...

I looked at the manual and I'm not finding the instructions to be very clear, extremely frustrating! it has added a blank page and created a section that is 4 pages long ...

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mce323 Author

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Nov 12, 2008 1:46 PM in response to artbrutnewyork

thank you! I knew I wasn't the only one ...

well let me phrase my question another way ...
I'm doing a newsletter ... each individual article is inside its own text box, I used to do this on Publisher so that they wouldn't "float" around as much while I formatted/revised/edited ...
does anyone know a better way of creating a newsletter in Pages that'll work with, instead of apparently against, this system of sectioning?
thanks!

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Answer 7

Walt K

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Nov 12, 2008 2:56 PM in response to mce323

I would suggest you use the Layout mode rather than Word Processing. In Layout, each page is a section. Use connecting text boxes to continue to another page. You will be able to delete or rearrange pages freely this way. Show layout, invisibles and thumbnails if you're not already doing this. You can easily switch layout on and off with the shortcut when you want to see how things look on the page without the boxes around them.

Walt

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