Diagrams in pages

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Diagrams in pages

I'm moving from office to iWork and having trouble with diagrams. In office I create diagrams in powerpoint and paste them into word, this doesn't work with keynote and pages.

Can anyone give me any pointers on creating diagrams in pages. I've had a look at the manual and it seems to only cover managing shapes not multiple shapes. I also need them to be inline so they move with text amends.

Cheers
David

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 29, 2009 7:52 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 29, 2009 9:00 AM in response to midlife_crisis

There is no problem copying and pasting between Keynote and Pages, but I think what you are saying is that neither have good flow diagramming tools.

For these look at:

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/OmniGraffle/

Make the diagrams in OmniGrafffle and export to pdf, then drag or copy into Pages.

As to multiple shapes, they are groupable and can easily be pasted inline:

see *Working with Images, Shapes, and Other Objects* p132 of the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf downloadable from under the Help menu.

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Answer 2

Jan 29, 2009 9:42 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

After much searching I found the group button on the keynote tool bar, I was expecting to see it on a context menu.

copy and paste works much better now between the apps, resizing is a tricky now.

I guess its down to practise now.

Cheers

David

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