Nicholas: thank you very much for the very straightforward solution suggesting text boxes with linked fields and flowing text. Sincerely, thank you for taking a moment to offer a solution. I was hoping for something that would format as I go, so that if I significantly change the length of my document, I won't have to add or remove text boxes and rearrange them. I've been dabbling in desktop publishing for over twenty five years and while I understand your answer and it will, in fact, work, I was hoping for something where the document would grow and shrink as necessary.
As for the "look it up in the dictionary if you don't know how to spell a word" replies...
Most of the time, the Mac team has solved many of these problems with a simple toggle or drop down that I assumed I had missed. While I appreciate your link to searches for booklets (which I had already done, thank you), neither your search results nor mine were not as helpful as I would have liked.
Again: that's why I asked.
Here's what I got from the reading PRIOR to asking for help: Exporting, downloading additional software and/or manually rearranging pages seems a very un-elegant and very un-Mac like solution, especially when Microsoft products solved this problem years and years ago.
If had I found simple, straightforward answer on my first handful of searches, I wouldn't have bothered to ask the question, and now I'll know better in the future since my question seems to be perceived as an imposition rather than an inquiry for help.
1) Maybe there is not a simple answer. Clearly I know how to impose the necessary order on the pages, but maybe there is not a simple solution in Pages-- yet. That's an answer.
2) If you had at first merely sent a link to an answer which gave me a satisfactory, Mac-like solution to my problem, I would have been grateful and would likely have apologized for using the wrong or incomplete search criteria. Instead, we now have two people patting themselves on the back and nodding and smiling at each other for telling me to search for it myself, and a third wondering why the question was such a problem. And Nicholas, who actually offered some help.
