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How do I change single column header to 3 column header in Mac Pages?

How do I change single column header to 3 column header in Mac Pages? I open a new document and the header and footer are single columns. I need it split into 3 separate cells.

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Oct 18, 2021 8:55 AM

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Posted on Oct 19, 2021 5:34 AM

If your document is based on the single-column Pages '09 document (or template), then you will not be presented by a tripartite header customary to normal Pages v5 - v11.2 documents. There is no forcing that single-column header/footer into three sections.


Copy/paste the contents of that single-column header document into a new Pages document with its default tripartite header.

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Oct 19, 2021 5:34 AM in response to kferguso

If your document is based on the single-column Pages '09 document (or template), then you will not be presented by a tripartite header customary to normal Pages v5 - v11.2 documents. There is no forcing that single-column header/footer into three sections.


Copy/paste the contents of that single-column header document into a new Pages document with its default tripartite header.

Oct 21, 2021 1:10 PM in response to kferguso

Pages was never designed to be a Word clone nor even compete with it, or any other word processing application. Microsoft has received a continuous revenue stream from all variations of Word for the last 37 years and that has funded a large, focused development team responding to corporate customer feature requests. Pages has been a free application on a free operating system since 2014, and that speaks for itself, with respect to Apple's development team funding and feature implementation requests. You get what you pay for… ☹️


If you need Word's features, or as some have done, return to Word from using Pages, that is a decision for you.

How do I change single column header to 3 column header in Mac Pages?

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