MLA Format Question

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MLA Format Question

I've almost completed work on my template for MLA format in Pages 09.

I've done the auto-insert page number into the right-hand corner of each page.

However, I'm having trouble because I don't know how to insert my last name to the left of the auto-inserted page number in the top right corner of every page.

So, instead of

1 in the right hand corner

It would be

Last name 1 in the right hand corner

And so on and so on with every page thereafter.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 2, 2009 9:49 PM

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Feb 2, 2009 10:07 PM in response to frodo-80

Use the header or footer, anything you put in there will repeat on each page. You will find the header or footer is a fixed text box at the top and bottom of your page. If you move the mouse over them you will see their outline and can click inside them.

Or go:

+Menu > View > Show Layout+ to see all the boxes on the page.

To do what you want: click in the header, type +*Last Name*+ followed by a space, then:

+Menu > Insert > Page Number+

Each page will now have "+*Last Name*+ 1" etc. The number will be whatever the page number is. The rest stays the same.

see *Using Headers and Footers* p51 of the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf downloadable from under the Help menu.

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