I am continually trying to 'center' the document and notice that there is a fixed width 'grey space' to the left of the white page. Is there a way to get rid of this?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've never used comments in a Pages document, but I've seen so many posts about it I decided to check & my document looked just like the OP's screenshot. Of course, I had no idea what the OP was asking about until the screenshot was posted.
I think you have Comments turned on. Go to View > Hide Comments & see if that area doesn't disappear.
L.,
When you set the page format for your document, you choose a printer and a paper size. Your printer may not be able to print to the entire area of the page, so the inaccessible parts of the paper are marked with a gray background. That may be what is happening here. It's possible that your printer has a "borderless" paper size setting that will eliminate the gray area.
Jerry
thanks for this thoughtful response. However, I tried changing my printing area and it simply reformatted my document to a wildly wide document that is not helpful to writing (there were no page breaks and so my paragraphs were as wide as the total text of that paragraph (four feet wide) and yet still had that same annoying grey space that continually requires centering.
Any other ideas?
The 'grey area' to the left of the working area (which is blue on my machine) shows the thumbnail of the page where you are currently entering or editing text. The only way i know to make it go away is to go View (menu) > Hide Page Thumbnails.
The grey vertical stripe to the right of the working page in the area beyond the edge of the defined page width set in Page Setup. It will show whenever your document window has been set wider than the page width at the current magnification.
You can remove that grey by enlarging the page, or by reducing the window width.
Pages documents align to the left edge of the working space in the window, and can't be moved from there.
Other actions you could take:
Use Full Screen mode (View > enter Full Screen) The removes all other material from the display, leaving an image of the page, centered left to right, and surrounded by a blank, black border. Depending on your window settings, you may also see a word count and an page number/page count displayed at the bottom of the screen.
If you want a plain, whiite (or other colour) margin for your document, try this:
Open a new, blank Pages document.
Use the View menu to hide all elements whose menu item starts with "Hide".
Set the view scale to 400%, using the control at the bottom left.
Drag the window to the left about twice as far as needed to hide the red amber and green gumdrops in the title bar.
Drag the control at the bottom right corner right (and down) to fill the window.
Drag the title bar right to hide the lozenge at the right end of the title bar.
Save the document as a Template, with the name "Blank white background"
To use:
Open ths template, then open the document you want to work on. Hide the Page Thumbnails of the work document, resize the document window to hold the page, with no grey area to the right. Reposition the document to be centered horizontally on the page.
Regards,
Barry
here is an image, the gray area that doesn't seem to dissapear is on the left in between the page thumbnails and the working document.
Can you post a screen shot of the problem? Sometimes we misinterpret the problem descriptions.
Jerry
Thanks Peggy, im a dope and did not see this or try this earlier. Thanks to everyone who helped!
Barry, thanks for these tips and advice.
Aha! That space! It's been so long since I used a document with comments added, that I didn't even recognize the comment space in the image.
Regards,
Barry
how do i get rid of the 'grey space' in document page view?
