Save icon

"Imagine how well you'd play the piano if you had to reach for a mouse and toolbar icon every minute."

This is not a good analogy; pianists often have to turn the pages of the music, by moving a hand away from the keyboard, and we do so for the most part without interrupting the flow of the music at all. 😉

OTOH most concert pianists I've seen using written music during a performance also have a page turner to turn the pages. The pianist keeps his/her hands on or near the keyboard, except for flourishes at places dictated by the phrasing of the music, not the occurrence of page turns dictated by printing economies.

In general, when writing, I's side with Peter on this one, although I can see that someone whose muscles have been trained to use the mouse might reasonably disagree.

The channel for feature requests is via Provide Pages Feedback, found in the Pages menu (or reached by clicking the link.

Regards,

Barry

Still puzzled how you need to have both hands on the mouse!

One to push it and one for the button?

Peter

Pretty sure they meant two hands for the keyboard shortcut, but who cares? My reason for coming to this page was to find out if apple had added a Save icon. I understand and appreciate the reason for the clean looking toolbar, but I think a Save icon is important, if only for psychological reasons (since autosave works pretty well, or so I think.) Just one more icon would not clutter things up. I guess apple has still chosen not to add the option.

Apple was not trying to recreate MS Word, Adobe, or Windows applications with any release of Pages. The functionality is on the File menu, where it is with all other OS X applications.

Yet they did include the following buttons, at least on the version I have: View, Zoom, Insert, Table, Chart, Text, Shape, Media, Comment, Share, Tips, Format and Document. There's room for Save.

There is room for a nice shiny porcelain toilet icon too, but it is not part of the Apple application design library, any more than a Save icon. There are other things that you can hope for that you stand a better chance of realizing than Apple breaking their design history and strategy.

Hi XhistoryX,

As you think this is important, and would be useful, you should be letting Apple know that. Here you're talking to users of the application, not the designers or others on the development team. To send a message directly to Apple, and from there to the Pages developers, go to the Application menu (in Pages, the "Pages" menu), choose Provide Pages Feedback, and make a feature request that a Save button be added to the user interface for this application.

Briefly describe what it would do and to whom it would be a useful feature.

Regards,

Barry