Help with creating keyboard shortcut in Pages app

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Help with creating keyboard shortcut in Pages app

Mac mini Apple M1, macOS Sequoia V. 15.6.1, Pages V. 14.4

When using the Pages app, I constantly take screenshots to the clipboard and paste them into the document I'm working on. I always have to change the Text Wrap to "Inline with Text" and I would like to automate this with a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + Z (or similar.) I made one with App Shortcuts then discovered the reason it doesn't work is because the parent menu item opens a child menu.

With the inserted image active, the sequence of commands is

View->Show Arrange Tools-> Arrange menu opens Automatic->Inline with Text

I played with Automator once and it is definitely above my skill grade. Assuming the shortcut I've envisioned above is possible, is there a Nerd Charming reading this (bats eyelashes) who will write a set of step-by-step instructions for creating it?

Mac mini, macOS 15.6

Posted on Dec 29, 2025 4:43 PM

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VikingOSX

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Dec 29, 2025 6:44 PM in response to LC5701

Someone with alot more time than I have may be able to write you a GUI AppleScript solution to navigate to and click that pop up button entry for Inline with Text. Sequoia may be fussy enough block this in Automator.

And if you are sufficiently lucky to obtain a GUI scripting solution, the very next version update of Pages may break the script should Apple change the element types and layout of that Arrange panel.

Unfortunately, Pages has no means to change the default Arrange panel's Text Wrap to anything but Automatic when inserting document objects. Been this way now since Oct 2013.

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