Problems with a title page regarding centering and paginating

phillip a wrote:
Can someone please tell me how to:

1) Center text vertically on a page. I have the title page of a multi-page document and I want to center the title of the document on the page. I already know how to center the text horizontally, but I cannot figure out how to center the title vertically.

2) Number the pages, but leave the title page without a number and begin the numbering with the first page of text.

phillip a wrote:
Thank you for your response, but I do not find it helpful.

I do not understand the first instruction regarding Inspector.

What do you mean by "make 10cm or something larger"?

Regarding the second instruction regarding a floating text box -- I looked up floating text boxes and it does not fit what I want to do.

I already have written all of the text in the document. All I want to do is center the text on the title page vertically. Why can't I do this is simply in Pages?

As for the link regarding page numbering, that answer describes headers and footer. I don't have headers and footers on the title page.

All I want to do is begin page numbering with the first page of text and leave the title page without a number.

Again, why should this simple task become so complicated in Pages?

--[SCRIPT center_title]
(*
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script : center_title.scpt
déplacer le fichier ainsi créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Pages et peut-être même le dossier Applications.
Sélectionner le document Pages ouvert.
aller au menu Scripts , choisir Pages puis choisir center_title
Le script extrait diverses informations lui permettant de centrer le titre de la première page (s'il se limite à une ligne).
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L'aide du Finder explique:
L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
Ouvrez l'Utilitaire AppleScript situé dans le dossier Applications:AppleScript.
Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
Sous 10.6.x,
aller dans le panneau "Général" du dialogue Préférences de l'Éditeur Applescript
puis cocher la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre des menus".
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Save the script as a Script: center_title.scpt
Move the newly created file into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
Maybe you would have to create the folder Pages and even the folder Applications by yourself.
Select the open Pages document.
go to the Scripts Menu, choose Pages, then choose "center_title"
The script extract some values allowing it to center the title in the first page (assuming that it's a single line one).
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The Finder's Help explains:
To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications:AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
Under 10.6.x,
go to the General panel of AppleScript Editor’s Preferences dialog box
and check the “Show Script menu in menu bar” option.
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2010/08/01
*)
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property theApp : "Pages"
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on run
 local page_width, page_height, above_header, header_height, footer_height
 local below_header, heightofparagraph1, heightofparagraph2
 (*
CAUTION : we can't use the printer margins available in page attributes.
They aren't defining the position of header and footer
So, we must extract them thru GUI scripting
*)
 tell application "Pages" to tell document 1
 set {leftofpage, topofpage, page_width, page_height, leftofheader, topofheader, header_width, header_height, leftoffooter, topoffooter, footer_width, footer_height} to my getPage_Header_FooterMeasures(name)
(*
space before apply only if there is a true paragraph before the one to which we want to apply this property
*)
 if (count of (get every paragraph whose page number of containing page is 1)) = 1 then make new paragraph at the beginning
 set heightofparagraph1 to 1
 set properties of paragraph 1 to {font name:"Helvetica", font size:heightofparagraph1}
 set heightofparagraph2 to (font size of paragraph 2) / 2
 set properties of paragraph 2 to {alignment:center, space before:(page_height / 2) - (topofheader - topofpage) - header_height - (heightofparagraph1 + heightofparagraph2) * 1.2}
 end tell -- Pages…
end run
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on getPage_Header_Footer_Measures(thewindow)
 local theleft_ofpage, thetop_ofpage, thepagewidth, thepageheight
 local theleft_ofheader, thetop_ofheader, theheaderwidth, theheaderheight
 local theleft_offooter, thetop_offooter, thefooterwidth, thefooterheight
 tell application theApp to activate
 tell application "System Events" to tell (first application process whose title is theApp)
 tell window the_window to tell first group of first UI element of last scroll area of first splitter group
 set {theleft_ofpage, thetop_ofpage} to position
 set {thepagewidth, thepageheight} to size
 tell (get second text area)
 get properties
 set {theleft_ofheader, thetop_ofheader} to position
 set {theheaderwidth, theheaderheight} to size
 end tell
 tell (get third text area)
 set {theleft_offooter, thetop_offooter} to position
 set {thefooterwidth, thefooterheight} to size
 end tell
 end tell -- window…
 end tell -- System Events
 return {theleft_ofpage, thetop_ofpage, thepagewidth, thepageheight, theleft_ofheader, thetop_ofheader, theheaderwidth, theheaderheight, theleft_offooter, thetop_offooter, thefooterwidth, thefooterheight}
end getPage_Header_FooterMeasures
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--[/SCRIPT]
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