Pages for iPad: Where is the text box feature?

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Level 1

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Pages for iPad: Where is the text box feature?

Hello,

I am a heavy user of Pages on my desktop and laptop and love this program but my most favorite powerful feature of Pages is its ability to create text boxes that I can drag around and place where I want. I recently bought an iPad and then bought Pages for iPad but I do not seem to be able to find the powerful feature of text boxing. Am I missing something or am I using the Pages for iPad app wrong?

macbook pro, imac 27", iPad, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 30" Apple Cinema, Apple TV, iPhone, and 11TB of external drives

Posted on Apr 7, 2010 1:31 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 7, 2010 1:50 PM in response to robphoton2

You might want to ask this in the forum specifically for Pages:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1370

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robphoton2 Author

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Apr 7, 2010 4:47 PM in response to robphoton2

I figured it out. Yes you can have text boxes in iPad Pages!!!!! What you do is paste in one of the many shapes they give you to paste in, and it can be of any color, and then you can type on that shape. The whole thing can be dragged around with the text riding inside of it and the external type flowing around the shape. The only thing you can't do, as far as I can tell, is paste a photo into a text box, which you can do in regular Pages.

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Answer 3

jshetley

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Apr 7, 2010 6:08 PM in response to robphoton2

Thanks! This is a great tip. I use text boxes too and just figured they were not available in this scaled back application. I really like using the IPad Pages for light typing though. I am still sending my stuff to my desktop for formatting and printing though. I am just having a great time using my new IPad.

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Answer 4

gebloom

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May 12, 2012 2:37 PM in response to robphoton2

>The only thing you can't do, as far as I can tell, is paste a photo into a text box, which you can do in regular Pages.

Nor can you link text boxes in the iPad version.

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