I have created 8 pages of a document in Pages. I want to move Page 2 to below page 8, but I can't because everything moves as a group. So are these individual pages considered "Sections"? I cannot "ungroup" them. Should be simple!
MacBook Pro 13âł, macOS 10.14
The first page is a section unto itself. As your document flows to additional pages, they become member pages of the same section, unless you choose Insert menu : Section, or Section break. In a Page Layout style document, you can arrange pages by dragging thumbnails about. However, in a default word processing document, you cannot just rearrange individual pages in a section by dragging their thumbnails. Also, if you attempt to delete what you believe is one page, the whole section gets whacked, so beware of that.
Click on the current page 8 thumbnail, and at the end of that page, Insert : Page break. Click on your page 2 thumbnail, and copy/paste all content on that page into your temporary, new page 9. Back to the page 2 thumbnail, select all text on the page and backspace to remove, and your page 2 will disappear in the thumbnails. If it doesn't, select View menu : Show Invisibles, and see if there is a blue horizontal line across the top of that page, which you would then double-click to select, and then backspace to remove. No confusing this nonsense with simple.
The first page is a section unto itself. As your document flows to additional pages, they become member pages of the same section, unless you choose Insert menu : Section, or Section break. In a Page Layout style document, you can arrange pages by dragging thumbnails about. However, in a default word processing document, you cannot just rearrange individual pages in a section by dragging their thumbnails. Also, if you attempt to delete what you believe is one page, the whole section gets whacked, so beware of that.
Click on the current page 8 thumbnail, and at the end of that page, Insert : Page break. Click on your page 2 thumbnail, and copy/paste all content on that page into your temporary, new page 9. Back to the page 2 thumbnail, select all text on the page and backspace to remove, and your page 2 will disappear in the thumbnails. If it doesn't, select View menu : Show Invisibles, and see if there is a blue horizontal line across the top of that page, which you would then double-click to select, and then backspace to remove. No confusing this nonsense with simple.
You are welcome. Deleting and finding are polar extremes 🧐. Is it in your File menu : Open Recents list? On a Time Machine backup that could be restored via launching /Applications/Time Machine? A copy of the document elsewhere?
Sadly, so far it is not findable in any of the usual places. I am in the queue for Apple Support now. It is not in Timeline, Finder. I thought there was autosave. Maybe not. Thank you for your concern and ideas.
There is no autosave until you explicitly save a Pages document with a name other than Untitled?.pages to an Apple filesystem, including iCloud Drive. Afterward, even the smallest change will invoke an autosave within 10 - 15 seconds. The first thing I do when I create a new Pages document is to save it before any added content.
Are you using Spotlight to index your startup drive? If so, and if you have the System Preferences : Spotlight : Search Results : [â] Documents selected, then the following might find that Pages document using Spotlight from the menu bar:
kind:pages modified:>08/01/2020
This will find any Pages document modified since Aug 1 wherever it may exist on your Mac startup drive.
Wow! I assumed that autosave was always on. I have gotten so lazy. I am using Spotlight. but when I searched for that criteria, kind:pages modified:>08/01/2020, I got "No results" I only had documents checked.
I guess that is what happened. If I had named it, it would have automatically been saved to the cloud by default, says the manual. Thank you so much for your help and compassion.
I'd better get busy recreating! It will just be better this time!
This is such a beautiful and thorough answer! Thank you so much. Unfortunately, in the meantime, I deleted the whole thing and can't find it. New problem. :D
If it was not formally saved, then quitting Pages released the work in progress content to oblivion, and Spotlight would have nothing to find. Unfortunately.
You are welcome. Stay positive, and healthy.
Can't Move or rearrange individual pages