I do not have the "info button" as an option pages at I downloaded onto my iPad2. All I have is the paint brush, plus sign in the box, and a wrench.

I watched a video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hC089Iri0 and noticed that I do not have the info button, nor the insert button or full screen button which are also described in the "Getting Started" document in pages on my ipad. Is this something I need to worry about?


Also wondering if you can make pages document in landscape or is it only for portrait?

iPad 2, iOS 5

Posted on Apr 1, 2012 3:12 PM

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Apr 1, 2012 3:59 PM in response to awjkej

The "plus sign in the box" is the insert button. That video is from 2010. The styles shown under the info button in the video are available as the first tab under the format button (the paint brush).


I don't know what you mean by the full screen button,sorry. All pages documents open full screen on the ipad.


Are you sure you have the right version of the Getting Started document? Mine makes no reference to any of the things you mention. Are you running the latest version of iOS and the current version of pages for iPad?


Incidentally, this particular forum is really for Pages for Mac. iWork for iOS does have its own forum:


https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iwork_for_ios

Apr 1, 2012 9:58 PM in response to awjkej

With the latest release of iOS and iWork apps for iOS, Apple has changed the Toolbar buttons:


What used to be the i - Info Button where object properties and text were changed is now the Brush icon (For styles, I guess) but has the same basic function as the i icon before - select an object or some text and tap the brush and you can change basic attributes.


What used to be the Media Insert icon (representation of an image) is now the "+" Button with the same functions as the previous icon - you can add shapes, tables, charts and media


The Tools Menu (wrench) is the same as before except in Keynote it now also has the Transitions and Builds access menu (double diamond icon) which used to reside on the toolbar and is now tucked under the Tools Menu


The View Full Screen (double arrow icon) has been removed and the document is now always in full view, sort-of.


Apple has yet to update their Getting Started Files for Pages, Keynote and Numbers to reflect these changes so it is understandably confusing to users.

Apr 1, 2012 10:45 PM in response to Barbara Brundage

Hi Barbara,


Yep - I have the latest iWork Apps on my iPad2 and the Getting Started Document still reads like yesterdays news - What Apple didn't do when they upgraded their apps is to provide a new document - if you just bought, you get a new document it seems, but us old-timers didn't get that.


User uploaded file


Note the new icons in the app and the old icons in the document. This is what the OP was having difficulty with, I'm sure.


Certainly could be confusing - as we used to say in the Navy "It operates on a series of pullies and levers not shown in the original diagram."

Apr 1, 2012 10:51 PM in response to bwfromspring hill

if you just bought, you get a new document it seems, but us old-timers didn't get that.


That's very interesting. I bought Pages/iPad the day it was first released and yet that's a screenshot from what I have. I wonder what could have forced the updated document for me?


Yes, I do see how confusing it would be to have the version in your screenshot with the current version of Pages.

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