how to set indentations

Pages is driving me nuts. The menu system is obtuse with many common functions having unrecognizable names and buried deep in multiple menus.

Here is my problem. I am writing an engineering specification document. I have headers with 1.0, 2.0.... and subheadings with 1.1, 1.2.... I am not using the automatic heading system (lists), but typing the indents and numbers myself.

The problem is, I see no way to control the indentation of the lines after the first line. I want the following lines indented beyond the number in the first line. Somehow I have several sections with the indents correctly done. I don't know how. Other sections have the following lines to the left of the first line.

I have tried everything I can think of and looked through all the menus and Help and find nothing that describes how to set indentations. The margin and tab icons at the top are no help.

I would appreciate any help.

Posted on May 19, 2011 6:59 AM

47 replies

fruhulda

Level 6

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May 21, 2011 5:22 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Sorry, Yvan! I turned my answer to the OP. Didn't see that I clicked on your posting.

The tab stops are making the behaviour a bit difficult to understand if there are tabs in the text. Just deleting all tabs might suffice.

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

May 21, 2011 5:55 AM in response to fruhulda

I justy wanted to underline the fact that your message was not to my attention.

Of course, keeping the default tabs when we customize a paragraph may give odd results and may render difficult the analysis of this behavior but here I wasn't trying to build an efficient paragraph setting but wanted to show that what the OP got was perfectly logical and that it was sufficient to look carefully the ruler and/or the Inspector pane to see where were the differences.

It's easy to claim that an interface is cumbersome for some one unable to look carefully what is displayed.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 21 mai 2011 14:55:05

Please :

Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

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