Reverse page numbering? Reverse page order?

1st question: Is there a way to reverse the numbering of pages in a Pages document? For instance, in a 20 page document, is there a way to make the last page be numbered as "page 1" and the first page be numbered "page 20"?

2nd question: is there any way to "flip" the page order of a Pages document? By that, I mean making the last page the actual first page and vice versa, along with a corresponding re-ordering of all the pages therein.

I looked through the Pages manual but found nothing on either topic. I also tried searching the Apple discussion forums here, but found nothing there either.

Side rant: The forum search function is pretty crude. My various searches for "page number" or "page numbering" kept giving results as though I was actually searching for "Pages" and "Numbers." And no matter how what search terms I used, with or without single or double quotes, I kept getting the exact same citations. Curse you, Apple, for giving your applications such generic names.

Thank you in advance for any and all help rendered!

MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz 4 GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Pages 4.02

Posted on Sep 19, 2009 11:20 AM

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Sep 19, 2009 11:53 AM in response to Quietcity

Quietcity wrote:
1st question: Is there a way to reverse the numbering of pages in a Pages document? For instance, in a 20 page document, is there a way to make the last page be numbered as "page 1" and the first page be numbered "page 20"?


NO with standard tools.

2nd question: is there any way to "flip" the page order of a Pages document? By that, I mean making the last page the actual first page and vice versa, along with a corresponding re-ordering of all the pages therein.


NO

Side rant: The forum search function is pretty crude. My various searches for "page number" or "page numbering" kept giving results as though I was actually searching for "Pages" and "Numbers." And no matter how what search terms I used, with or without single or double quotes, I kept getting the exact same citations.


I apologize but I didn't get the same behavior.

If I search for print number without quotes, I get 10 pages of returned links.
If I search for "print number" with the double quote, I get onlt 5 pages.
This proves that the filter does its duty.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 19 septembre 2009 20:53:48

Sep 19, 2009 2:04 PM in response to Quietcity

It seems to me the terms Print number and Page number are not the same.

Re your side rant.

That was an obvious which I pointed out to Apple when iWork first started.

Keynote was bad enough but then came Pages and Numbers.

You have to search on "Apple Pages" etc to avoid the flood of generic irrelevance.

Peter

btw Did you want reverse page order for Chinese/Korean/Japanese or for Arabic/Farsi/Hebrew?

If it is the later look at instead:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=23&mforum=iworktipsn trick

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