How do you make the top margin .5" on page 1 and 1.0" on all of the following pages?

I apologize Fruhulda but here the app behave the way described by Jeff.

After a section break or a layout one, the added margin apply only to the page which is just after the xx break.

From my point of view, it's at least an oddity, at worst a bug.

If we define a columns count after such a break, it apply to every pages until a new break.

Left an right margins defined the same apply the same way.

It seems odd that top/bottom margins don't behave the same.

So, to achieve with Pages (which isn't inferior to Word but different, exactly as a black man isn't inferior to a white one) what the OP is accustomed to achieve with Word there are several schemes.

Scheme 1

define the document's top margin to 1" and insert a text box in page i whose top edge will be at .5" of the page top.

Scheme 2

Define the document with a 35 points top margin.

At bottom of page 1, insert a section break.

In the section #2 uncheck the box "Use the preceeding header/footer".

Define the font in use in the footer to the value of your choice if you want to insert data in it, press return,

put the cursor in the header's 1st line and define the parameter space after so that the header's bottom edge reach the 1" location.

This way every other pages will behave exactly as if the margin was 1"

Back to page #1, put the cursor in the header, select all then reduce the font height to 1 point.

So, the top margin will be 35 points + 1 point (36 points is .5").

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2012

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If you can show us the actual effect you want to achieve, either as a screen shot or pdf, we'll see if we can come up with a simple solution.

Peter

It may be an oddity, or just a design decision.

Since you can only have one top and bottom margin on a page, but there can be multiple layout breaks, this couldn't be a setting in the Layout tab. It could change per section, but I suppose the designers didn't see a need.

I'm always reluctant to speak of possible bug.

At first, as I tested only columns, I didn't wrote the word but when I saw that left and right margins which are in the same part of the Inspector apply to every pages but top margin "before" to first one I thought of a possible bug.

Are you knowing what is achieved when we define the margin "after" ?

I tried to change the value but nothing changed in the doc.

When a feature is disabled, normally, it's greyed.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2012

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The "before" setting controls a vertical whitespace between the layout for which it is set and the preceding layout. The "after" does the same with regards the following layout, but it won't show up if there isn't a following layout yet.

If the layout break coincides with a page break, the whitespace appears as a margin, but it can be in the middle of the page if that is where the layout break falls.

Thanks.

Now I understand.

But I continue to think that something is wrong.

When we have two columns, the text flow from the left one to the right one at the bottom of every page with no action.

From my point of view this means that there is a bottom of column in every page.

So, according to what is written in the Guide, it would be logical to get the margin at top of every page;

I think that I will file a report.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2012

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I take it that the page with the table on it is the first page?

Then simply line it up with the top and apply Wrap so that it pushes the fiollowing text down. You seem to have done this by hitting lots of returns which is crude and can push the layout out of position.

Also Tables don't have to have all the divisions showing, you can either turn all off, the internal borders or just those you don't want to see by changing the cell borders to none.

Here is how to set up a template for a letterhead where you have a unique first page followed by the standard following pages:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=182&mforum=iworktips ntrick

You don't have a letterhead but the principle is the same.

Peter

So, your problem is not a margin one.

You just have to insert a section break between page 1 and page 2.

In the Inspector of Layout > Sections

uncheck the box "Uncheck the header/footer from preceeding section"

This way you may define the contents of the Header in use from page 2 to the last one.

As long as you insert a return at the right end of the header contents, you would be able to adjust the header height so that it's bottom will be at 1" from the top of page.

If your problem was described accurately in your first quetion it would be solved long time ago.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2012

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