My wife cannot move an image to the back of text in her version of Pages (12.1). There is NO Section Master choice that we can see, which was written in responses on how to do it. So, my question is, can one do it or not in Pages (not '09)? The Send to Back buttons are grayed out and unusable.
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MacBook Pro 13″
In more recent versions of Pages, Apple changed the name Section Master to Section Layouts.
The body text in a Pages document is always the bottom layer and inserted objects (e.g. images) cannot be placed behind that text unless one applies Arrange menu > Section Layouts > Move Objects to Section Layout for a selected image. The body text will then just float over that Section Layout image that appears on every page of that section.
In more recent versions of Pages, Apple changed the name Section Master to Section Layouts.
The body text in a Pages document is always the bottom layer and inserted objects (e.g. images) cannot be placed behind that text unless one applies Arrange menu > Section Layouts > Move Objects to Section Layout for a selected image. The body text will then just float over that Section Layout image that appears on every page of that section.
In Pages '09, you could drag and drop an image onto existing body text, visit the Inspector > Wrap tool and simply click In Background. The image would plunge under the existing body text. There was also an option on that panel for the Background object are selectable. And on Pages '09 Format menu, one could select Advanced > Move Objects to Section Master.
The rewrite of Pages that was released in Oct 2013 and subsequent versions was not based on Pages '09. What you once were able to do in Pages '09 became implemented in a different way, or simply was omitted from the new design.
There is no Inspector panel, or Wrap tool now that lets you shove an image behind body text. The only means to do so now is to select the image, and apply Arrange menu > Section Layouts > Move Object to Section Layout. That places the image behind the body text where it appears for every page of the current section. The layer buttons on the Arrange panel have no bearing on an image in the current Pages application unless in the context of other inserted objects in case you wanted to (for instance) position a text box above an image.
Go to Pages menu Arrange > Section Layouts > Make Layout Objects Selectable.
And then, choose Move Objects to section layouts because the "Back, Forward", etc. icons are still grayed out and unusable, and just by doing your suggestion above did not do the trick. In addition, the selected image in the document seemed to be copied and placed willy nilly all over it. Why? Why doesn't the icon "Move to back" work (like in Pages '09)? It's infuriating.
Thanks for the reply. It didn't work as advertised, unfortunately. Needlessly inefficient, where two clicks would facilitate the action... well, not now.Although there are a few glitches with my 2012 MBP with Pages '09, it works.
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As I mentioned, Pages '09 v4.3 and the current Pages are entirely different applications and so is their feature set, and documentation. Not surprised you could achieve what you wanted to do in Pages '09.
How do I Move images below text in Pages V12.1
