move a page in Pages for Mac.

There have been two ;standard answers' to the question of moving a page in a Pages word processing document in this community.

One is the answer offered by Viking OS X above.

The other is to insert a section break at the end of the text on the page before the one you want to move, and a second section break at the end of the text on the page you want to move. The effect is to isolate the page to be moved in a section consisting of only that page.

Insert a third section break at the end of the text on the page before the location where you want to place the page you ar moving.

In the left sidebar, click on the thumbnail for the page tht is to be moved. Check that the yellow 'setion boundary' contains only this page.

Drag the thumbnail up or sown to the location where you want it to be, then drop it at that location.

Decide whether the relocated page is to be the(A) last page of a section, (B) the first page of the following section, or (C) a page in the same section as the page before it and the page after it.

Then take the appropriate action from the list below:

(A) Delete the section break on the page before the relocated page.

(B) Delete the section break at the end of the relocated page.

(C) Delete both of these section breaks.

This solution and the one offered by Viking OS X both apply to Pages word processing documents.

In Pages Page Layout Documents, each page is a separate section, and text does not flow from one page to the next in a Document Body.

As each page is a separate section, any page can be moved by selecting, then dragging its Page Thumbnail on the left sidebar, and ropping it in the desired location.

Rgards,

Barry

Pages supports word processing (default) and page layout document formats. The word processing format does not support dragging pages around as icons — only sections containing those pages, while the granularity of a page layout format allows one to rearrange individual page icons as they are not in a containing section.

In word processing mode, you will need to copy the entire page to be moved to the clipboard, and then paste it before or after the page where you want it to appear. Then, you remove the origination page contents. When you get comfortable with this two-step approach, you can reduce it to one step using command+x to cut the page from its current location. It is always a good idea to do this on a previously saved document, and one that has been captured on a Time Machine backup.