In Pages...
All the reading I have done suggests that those 3 columns in the header are fixed, immutable, impossible to resize (widthways). Surely it is obvious that sometimes you may want one to be wider or narrower, without having to do some id-depth engineering of a complicated workaround?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.4
Text in the left side header box starts at the left boundary of that box, and will flow into the center box îf that box is empty (and into the right box if that box is also empty and the space is needed.
Text entered in the center box starts at the centre point of the box, extends in both directions as it is filled in, and overflows into the left and right boxes if those boxes are empty and the space is needed.
Text in the right side header box starts at the right boundary of that box, and will flow into the center box îf that box is empty (and into the left box if that box is also empty and the space is needed.
Any content in each of the boxes 'closes the gate' to incoming text from the adjacent box(es). That includes content added to a box into which text has already overflowed from an adjacent box.
The same descriptions apply to the Footer boxes at the bottom of the page.
Beyond those automatic events, no user accessible adjustment to the width of the individual boxes is available
Regards,
Barry
Text in the left side header box starts at the left boundary of that box, and will flow into the center box îf that box is empty (and into the right box if that box is also empty and the space is needed.
Text entered in the center box starts at the centre point of the box, extends in both directions as it is filled in, and overflows into the left and right boxes if those boxes are empty and the space is needed.
Text in the right side header box starts at the right boundary of that box, and will flow into the center box îf that box is empty (and into the left box if that box is also empty and the space is needed.
Any content in each of the boxes 'closes the gate' to incoming text from the adjacent box(es). That includes content added to a box into which text has already overflowed from an adjacent box.
The same descriptions apply to the Footer boxes at the bottom of the page.
Beyond those automatic events, no user accessible adjustment to the width of the individual boxes is available
Regards,
Barry
The triad segments of Pages header and footers are not table cells, so are not resizable in a table metaphor sense. Text entered in any given segment causes the alignment controls to be unavailable, though each segment, depending on its orientation, has inherent left, middle, or right text alignment. The indent/outdent controls remain operable, and text entered in a given segment can be stacked by introducing a return.
One can enter continuous text, and that will overflow into the adjacent segment, pushing the segment divider to the right. Rather unwieldy though…
Anything fancier and one could suppress the header or footer in the Documents panel, and introduce a gridless, one/two row table in the same location, or a resized image in concert with an adjacent table. With both selected, one could then select the Arrange menu > Section {Layouts, Masters} > Move Objects to Section {Layout, Master} to place this new content below the text layer. One should test how this affects any export to Word visuals.
Pages Header Columns unchangeable...?
