Permanently turn off sections in Pages

I've absolutely had it with these orange highlights around every page and not being able to add and delete single pages. I don't want to have to begin a new section for every single page, just so I can rearrange them later on, and I sure don't want to have to manually type in my footer for 50 pages. Most of my documents are entirely filled with text boxes and images, so it doesn't give me the option to go to the end of a line and insert a page break, which wouldn't even really fix this issue anyway. Does anyone have a fix for this? I'm seconds from re-downloading Word. Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Sep 28, 2023 11:42 AM

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Sep 28, 2023 12:45 PM in response to ElkaM

If you have an established Word skill set, then I suggest you download Office 2021 for Mac before Microsoft drops support for Big Sur this fall (near at hand, since Sonoma was released) and with it, the ability to install Microsoft 365/Office 2021 for Mac on it. Or, you can end the Microsoft drama and install Softmaker's Office 2024 for Mac instead which is supported on Catalina and later. LibreOffice would be a steeper learning curve… even if it is free.


You cannot turn off sections in Pages, and the application treats the default word processing documents differently than it does page layout documents, the latter where each page is also its own self-contained section.


If reading the Pages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support simply isn't worth a read in lieu of your aggravation, then you know what to do regarding the first paragraph.


Permanently turn off sections in Pages

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