Pages paragraph formatting
Ok, there comes a time in every person's life when the brain simply balks at further use. I suspect this is one of those times for me.
I am a writer. I'm using Pages over MS Word simply because my hands are chapped from washing them too much after using a Microsoft product. That said, I'm thrilled that Pages offers enough depth to accommodate writing a novel. I'm in the middle of one such that is autobiographical. I mention the topic as I've fallen prey to one of Pages enticements in its ability to imbed pictures within the text such that the picture is anchored to the text. This allows for rewrites, edits, et al without having to reflow the text and pictures.
That said, I have indeed imbedded dozens of pictures in this 80 thousand word plus document. Today when I opened the document to resume writing I found two rather disconcerting things. Firstly, I attempted to increase the spacing between paragraphs and found that regardless of whether I used the slider or entered a number nothing happened to the body copy. Nada, zilch, it just stared back at me unfazed and unchanged.
Secondly, in fiddling with settings I flicked on Facing Pages. I then turned off that feature, yet Pages is still in Facing Pages mode. I cannot seem to turn it off.
The one curious thing I noted is that at each paragraph there appears to be a thick blue dash in the margin. Might this indicate the problem and possible solution? Your attention and kind consideration are greatly appreciated.
I am a writer. I'm using Pages over MS Word simply because my hands are chapped from washing them too much after using a Microsoft product. That said, I'm thrilled that Pages offers enough depth to accommodate writing a novel. I'm in the middle of one such that is autobiographical. I mention the topic as I've fallen prey to one of Pages enticements in its ability to imbed pictures within the text such that the picture is anchored to the text. This allows for rewrites, edits, et al without having to reflow the text and pictures.
That said, I have indeed imbedded dozens of pictures in this 80 thousand word plus document. Today when I opened the document to resume writing I found two rather disconcerting things. Firstly, I attempted to increase the spacing between paragraphs and found that regardless of whether I used the slider or entered a number nothing happened to the body copy. Nada, zilch, it just stared back at me unfazed and unchanged.
Secondly, in fiddling with settings I flicked on Facing Pages. I then turned off that feature, yet Pages is still in Facing Pages mode. I cannot seem to turn it off.
The one curious thing I noted is that at each paragraph there appears to be a thick blue dash in the margin. Might this indicate the problem and possible solution? Your attention and kind consideration are greatly appreciated.
Macbook Black, Mac OS X (10.6.5), 4 GB RAM
