Change page order in pages

You are using a Word Processing document. All pages together is a section. In Word processing the easiest is to Cut and Paste the part you want to move. You do not move the page per se.

You can also insert section breaks, one before and one after the part you wan to move but i think it is a overkill. If you do this you can then move the"page" thumbnail to the beginning or the end of the document or you have to add section break where you want to put the page.

David,

Clicking on a page in the Thumbnails pane wlll take you to that page in the document. Click at the top of that page's content, and Shift-Click at the bottom. Command-X to move the content to the Clipboard. Click on the thumbnail just above where you want to reposition the text. Click at the bottom of that page and Command-V.

Now your content should be in the new location.

You should practice on a copy to avoid disaster.

Jerry

There is no connection between the text on one page and the next?

Your text flows from page to page, you can't just drag one out of context to another location.

If you divide it into sections then yes, you can because it is like reordering chapters with logical breaks between.

Peter

This thread is very useful . I'd like to ask how I can 'fix' pictures to the page so they don't move around when I make changes elsewhere. I have a document with several pages that contain three pictures per page, making final edits above has caused them to move.

Ann

Ann,

Each object, such as a picture, has an attribute that defines this behavior. In the Wrap Inspector, and on the Format Bar, you can select Floating or Inline. A Floating object hovers above (for the purpose of this explanation) the text, unaffected by the flow of the text and therefore maintains its position relative to the page. An Inline object flows with the text and therefore moves up or down the page as the text moves.

Jerry

This whole thing is making me rather depressed about Pages.

It really should be as easy as doing it in Preview, take "icon" one page and move it a level up.

Cut / paste requires a blank page to paste into to begin with. It's a mess. 5-6 unnecessary steps for something that should be so simple.

Le sigh, Pages.
Le sigh.

No, you don't need to have a blank page for cut and page, or for select and move the teat. You will have the insertion point where you can paste or move text to. The text/content behind that point will move down an make room for the pastes/moved text. If needed pages will automatically be added. This is the beauti of a word processor. It seems few knows about it nowadays.

NOW I AM TOTALLY CONFUSED.

Every post said I can't just drag the icons to rearrange the page order.

But I just tried and it worked.

Under "view" - select "page thumbnails"

Then just rearrange the pages as you see fit. And it works. At least it worked for me.

Go figure.

Also, you can select a page thumbnail, copy and paste it, it just instantly creates a new page. Good for creating a quick blank template and pasting it a bunch of times if you need the same look for each page. I am working on a storyboard, so this just saved me an hour 🙂

Re change page sort order in Pages 5/Newsletter nt WP document. ( have 2 phones, one pad, one laptop and an iMac, all running latest OS/iOS)

Based on my experience, other comments, in Pages 5, you can't change the thumbnail sort order in the left pane. Bummer bcause I am doing a Newsletter and require this.

One post said take the pages 5 document and export it to Pages 09, that does work,

One other post said: after you export to 09, then open document, does that OK, yet the sort thumbnail pages in the left pane, does not work, will have to test. If true means always open 09, and best to remove Pages 5 from all devices, then reload when they fix it. Tho not sure how to get back to old pages on my iPad,

Thanks for the wisdom

John in Tucson

Then you must not be using Pages 5. Your method works in previous versions of Pages.

Not you, fruhulda, Zebbler was the one describing how it worked in previous versions.

The version of Pages & the version of OS X you are using are critical, especially in this time of two vastly different versions of Pages.

To put it another way Ann

Inline is "in line" with the text. It acts just like a character in the text.

You can copy and paste it into the text or with the cursor in your text, drag the object in.

Peter

Hi Jerry and Pete

This is good.

I have been putting in section breaks to try and keep things where I want them.