Create new template sections

Tim,

See: 'Adding Sections to a Custom Template' in the Pages 09 User Guide PDF. In the English edition it's on page 259.

Jerry

Help menu, 5th menu item.

I'm really wondering how users may miss this important Help menu.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 18 mars 2009 20:50:58)

Because it is buried in a longer list of items and is not labeled as being a "Manual" or pdf which is what most users are looking for.

I only stumbled on it when I was looking for something else.

This is why I always give a full description of where it is, what it is called and how to get it.

It should have been installed with iWork on the User's hard drive.

Unfortunately manuals have gone from being a hard copy that comes with the program, to a pdf file that was installed with the program and if well designed, opens from under the Help menu, to now an after thought held on a website somewhere and requiring a special effort to download.

Once downloaded there is no standard or logical place to store them. I have created a folder in +Applications > iWork > iWork Manuals+ to hold them.

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Because it is buried in a longer list of items and is not labeled as being a "Manual" or pdf which is what most users are looking for.

I hope that you are joking but I'm really afraid that you aren't.
It's the 5th item.


If English users don't understand what means "Pages User Guide" it's time to redesign the English teaching.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 18 mars 2009 22:26:38)

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
It should have been installed with iWork on the User's hard drive.

Have you look at the size of the set of manuals ?
Each localized version requires four manuals for a total of about 40Mbytes.
There are 15 languages so 15 * 40 = 600 Mbytes.
This means a second CD !

Once downloaded there is no standard or logical place to store them. I have created a folder in +Applications > iWork > iWork Manuals+ to hold them.

As far as I know, there is no need to study in Harvard to understand that

"Macintosh HD:Library:_Application Support_:iWork '09:"

is the logical location.

It's already the one where are stored the resources shared by the iWork components.

Because it is buried in a longer list of items and is not labeled as being a "Manual" or pdf which is what most users are looking for.

I assumes that it's for the same reason that we often read questions asking for the keyboard shortcuts. The "Keyboard shortcuts" entry is too deeply buried and the users are guessing that it's given an other wording 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 18 mars 2009 22:39:58)

Most of Apple's software comes on DVDs.

There is plenty of room.

As to the use of unexpected expressions that nobody looks for, it maybe the explanation for the success of the "Missing Manuals" books.

Nobody has thought to look for the "Missing User Guides".

In the design of User Interfaces it is considered wise to offer options in 3s, left middle or right, top middle or bottom. Using more than that hides the details and is likely to be either ignored or overlooked.

Also putting things in the Library is for System not User reference, particularly as there are 2 sets of Libraries and even within the same iWork suite things do not seem to get dumped in the same locations, or even in some cases such as templates in the same order.

You think like a programmer, and like my wife.

You know where you put things, so therefore everyone else must know. It is the logical reverse of the head-in-the-sand that assumes if I can't see you, you can't see me. Either one puts you at the centre of the universe and everyone else constantly following whatever you have been up to.

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Most of Apple's software comes on DVDs.

iWork doesn't!

As to the use of unexpected expressions that nobody looks for, it maybe the explanation for the success of the "Missing Manuals" books.

Nobody has thought to look for the "Missing User Guides".

Apple uses "User Guides" since the Apple I delivery. No reason to change.

In the design of User Interfaces it is considered wise to offer options in 3s, left middle or right, top middle or bottom. Using more than that hides the details and is likely to be either ignored or overlooked.

It's perfectly silly.
How many menu would be required if the app where doing that ?

Also putting things in the Library is for System not User reference, particularly as there are 2 sets of Libraries and even within the same iWork suite things do not seem to get dumped in the same locations, or even in some cases such as templates in the same order.

You really don't understand the behavior of the Mac.

_Macintosh HD:System:Library:_ is for the System Use.

_Macintosh HD:Library:_ is for every items which must be accessed by every users.

_Macintosh HD:Users:yvan koenig:Library: is for items which must be accessed by a single user.

The User Guides are supposed to be accessed by every users so their logical location is in _Macintosh HD:Library:_

In this folder is a subfolder clearly designed for that:

Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:iWork '09:

It's in _Macintosh HD:Library:_ than iDVD, iPHOTO, inDesign and GarageBand store their in thebox themes /templates while iwork components keep them in their own packages.

So, as I dislike reinventing the wheel, I feel that there are two coherent locations:

Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:iWork '09: (as are doing iDVD… for themes/templates)
or

Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Keynotes.app:
Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Numbers.app:
Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Pages.app: (as are doing iWork components for themes/templates)

But this late set doesn't offer a response for: Formulas and_Functions_UserGuide.pdf

and so, it remains only one logical location:

Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:iWork '09:

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 mars 2009 09:21:57)

iLife, OSX etc use DVDs, same physical size and price, what's the problem?

Everyone else uses the term "Manuals". I like Manual because it is explicit and only one word.

I am not saying that menus need to be restricted to only 3 items, merely pointing out the reason why people overlook things in long lists.

I do understand the behavior of Macs, unfortunately. Who ever said UNIX was User friendly?

It is still multiple hiding places that you have to burrow down into, with no direct path from the Dock or Finder unless you build your own custom shortcuts.

The point is not whether you, Yvan, can find them. Obviously you can, and you like to tell those who +don't know+, how lazy, stupid or incompetent they are, which makes you feel superior. So I guess that is a good thing.

If you haven't noticed there are an awful lot of people here totally new to the Mac and even sometimes computing. They don't have 30 or more years of practice and familiarity to guide them.

The obvious thing would have been to have the User Guides installed on the Mac and have them open from under the Help menu. Other software developers manage this but Apple is not into the obvious, that was so '90s. Obscure minimalism, larded up with 3D embellishments is all the go today.

The choice is simple, make it easy on the User, or feel all superior because you have confused them.

You are saying that users are 5 years of mental age.

In front of a computer, every child look at the contents of the menus.

I was able to test that with all of those visiting my grand children for years.

The fact that YOU like the term "Manuals" doesn't make your advice a rule.

Apple made an other choice for years.

The old Adobe products which I own have "User Guide", no manual.
FileMaker has an "User Guide"
My son's Microsoft product (nobody's perfect) have "User Guides"
Even O'Reilly didn't publish "AppleScript the definitive manual" but "AppleScript the definitive guide".

And if they publish a serie entitled "The missing manual", it's perhaps because naming it "missing Guide" would be a lie.
As many editor publish "User Guide" but no "Manual", they are sure that the "manual" is missing.



No, I didn't invent the last item. It's really on the O'Reilly catalog 😉

If Apple decide to put iWork '10 on a DVD, maybe they would buy a license of this item.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 mars 2009 16:37:04)

I forgot that your dear Quark Xpress is also offering User Guides.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 mars 2009 19:09:35)

And of course, 30 years of practice are required to read what is displayed during the install process:



Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 mars 2009 21:33:42)

The test of everything is reality.

If the present arrangement is so ideal, why are both you and I having to constantly tell people about the User Guides (which everyone else, ie users not corporations, calls Manuals) and where and how to get a copy?

The best place to hide anything is out in the open, buried under everything else.

The banks do it, governments do it and large corporations do it.

+Well designed+ simplicity is very hard to do, and so out of style now.

*The choice is simple, make it easy on the User, or feel all superior because you have confused them.*

My advice is that most users are so lazy that they don't read what they are urged to read when they install a product.



I always read that as well as the License before installing something.

Is it so difficult to do that?

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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 20 mars 2009 11:27:45)