Page break vs Section break

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Page break vs Section break

I have a long Pages document that started life on the BBC B micro-computer, then went to Claris/AppleWorks and is now over 100,000 words and nearly 80Mb despite having next to no images. Before I encumber it with images I'd like to know if there is a practical file size limit, other than RAM [24Gb in a late 2015 3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 iMac]. I ask as search is very slow - other apps are not.

If file size is not an issue I'd like to add more images but, despite it being a WP file and the existing ones being set to move with the text, they often seem to pop up in odd places once more text has been added 'above' them.

I was wondering if adding a Page break before and after each image would fix the problem, and if so is one better than the other?

Thanks, CC

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 9, 2022 8:11 AM

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Colin Cohen Author

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Mar 9, 2022 12:25 PM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks, and I agree that is what should happen, but seems not to for me a lot of the time. I've chosen 6pt for the wrap and the only way I could keep a caption to say with an image is to set the two up together in a separate document, group them, and then place image and caption in the right place and set to Move with text.

However, some still contrive to wonder off, hence thinking of setting a page or section break - which at the final edit I could remove working through from p 1 and hoping no copy gets inserted to spoil things …

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Mar 9, 2022 1:54 PM in response to Colin Cohen

With Mojave, you have no choice but to set the text wrap to none on both the image and the caption text box, then resize the caption box to the width of the image just high enough to contain the caption. Select both and group them. This will free up that dead space to the right of your image that currently contains the caption, and allow body text to flow around your image (if that is what you want to achieve). For example:

With Pages v11.2 on Big Sur and Monterey, Apple has added a Caption selection box that automatically adds a white-space caption box below the selected image. No grouping necessary as this caption box follows the image around the document.

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Mar 9, 2022 10:59 AM in response to Colin Cohen

In a word processing document, there is at least one page per section, and if you add an image to a given page, you could insert a page break just before, and right after the image to isolate it to one page of that section. But that is unnecessary, because if you set that Image's Text Wrap to None in the Arrange panel, then you have several options for flowing text around, or above and below that image on that given page if that is your design goal.

I see no reason to isolate an image in its own section, either.

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Colin Cohen Author

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Mar 10, 2022 4:29 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks but actually in the case in question, as I did not want the image bigger, I wanted the caption to the side. My problem [and as you spotted I'm on Mojave] is that even when I group a caption with an image sometimes the pair of them do not stay in the same position relative to the text if I add text.

I'm not clear by what you mean by 'no choice but to set the text wrap to none' - it defaults to 12p which I usually reduce to 6pt.

I'm stuck on Mojave as I have a web building app that is not 64-bit clean. Once I rebuild the site in WordPress I can move forward.

I don't like doing much more than text editing on my iPad Pro, but if needs be can I use the Caption selection box there?

Thanks, CC

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