OMG! I cant find current page number to be displayed on a status, like in any other normal text editor.
Who design apple software? Do you guys even use it?
This, and many other features (or lack of them) is terrible.
Windows (I need to move back to using it), which is not the best, is still way better.
Showing page numbers in any version of Pages introduced since Fall 2013 is purely voluntary and one visits the View menu and selects Show Page Count. That produces a floating panel at the bottom of the document that initially may have a character count. You click the ↕︎ symbol on the right side of that panel, it opens to display a list of choices, and you select pages. That floating panel now shows your document page count:
Once you have selected the above, you can also reference the page count via:
Show word count and other statistics in Pages on Mac - Apple Support
If you select a paragraph and want a word count, you click that panel again and it shows counts on the panel for words, characters, etc associated with that selection.
You also, depending on preference, can insert page numbers of the form n of m in the header or footer of your document to show page n of m total on each page.
Add page numbers in Pages on Mac - Apple Support
Pages was never designed to be a Word clone, so you simply won't find most word features or that page reference in the lower left corner of an open Word document status bar that is available without hunting for it.
Apple is not competing with any other word processing vendor on features. One can use Pages, or any number of other word processing applications on the Mac based on your application and production requirements. Want to use Word on Windows, then by all means do that.
Showing page numbers in any version of Pages introduced since Fall 2013 is purely voluntary and one visits the View menu and selects Show Page Count. That produces a floating panel at the bottom of the document that initially may have a character count. You click the ↕︎ symbol on the right side of that panel, it opens to display a list of choices, and you select pages. That floating panel now shows your document page count:
Once you have selected the above, you can also reference the page count via:
Show word count and other statistics in Pages on Mac - Apple Support
If you select a paragraph and want a word count, you click that panel again and it shows counts on the panel for words, characters, etc associated with that selection.
You also, depending on preference, can insert page numbers of the form n of m in the header or footer of your document to show page n of m total on each page.
Add page numbers in Pages on Mac - Apple Support
Pages was never designed to be a Word clone, so you simply won't find most word features or that page reference in the lower left corner of an open Word document status bar that is available without hunting for it.
Apple is not competing with any other word processing vendor on features. One can use Pages, or any number of other word processing applications on the Mac based on your application and production requirements. Want to use Word on Windows, then by all means do that.
You can enable thumbnails to see what page you are on and/or insert a page number in the header or footer. That is how you see the current page number in Pages. Otherwise, rather than complain about Apple or the Pages product design, either adapt, or use another word processing application that fits your needs.
I am not an Apple employee and not defending Apple or Pages.
Well, although I appreciate your effort to praise the Apple, you answer does not explain how to see the current page number without adding page number.
Not implementing this is just ...
Pages version 12.1, no current page number
