How do I open a new page layout document?

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How do I open a new page layout document?

Opening a new document results in a word processing document. I cannot find any option to open a page layout stead.

By the way, before asking, I did attempt to google this, and also looked in Apple's instructional pages, like this one: Create a document in Pages on Mac - Apple Support (Under "Create a basic page layout document," I could not make any sense out of Step 4: "Deselect the Document Body checkbox... (photo below). I see a way to toggle this, but no way to "deselect" it, so I assume I'm looking at the wrong thing?

Mac mini (M1, 2020)

Posted on Jul 12, 2023 10:57 AM

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Answer 1

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Jul 12, 2023 1:29 PM in response to Donnie Ashworth

Three ways to resolve depending on your settings:

Pages File menu : New…
Pages Settings : General : ⦿ Show Template Chooser
System Settings : User Name : iCloud > iCloud Drive On > Apps syncing to iCloud Drive nn > Pages (⦿=) (off).

As long as Item 2 is set to a custom template name, Pages will always open directly to a new document using that declared template name.

As long as item3 is set, Pages will always open to a File chooser instead of a Template chooser.

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Jul 12, 2023 1:43 PM in response to VikingOSX

I'm into the Template chooser now, but still don't see an option for just a plain blank page layout document. I guess I need to just experiment with some of the pre-fab templates there to see if I can modify one.

It seems odd and unintuitive that Pages doesn't have any easily findable option for just a plain from-scratch page layout document. (like File > New > Page Layout).

Anyway, thanks for your help.

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Jul 12, 2023 2:11 PM in response to Donnie Ashworth

The two template screen capture I posted earlier are side by side in Pages v13.1 Template chooser on macOS Monterey 12.6 and later.

If you open a regular Pages blank template, there should be a File menu item Convert to Page Layout… You don't want to do this on an existing word processing document as it will wipe it.

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Jul 12, 2023 11:54 AM in response to Donnie Ashworth

Apple provides a blank word processing format template and one that is a blank page layout template in the Template chooser. Annotation is mine.

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Jul 12, 2023 12:59 PM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks. At some point I apparently disabled the Template chooser, and now cannot see how to get back into it.

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