How do you get rid of "type to enter text " in final copy?

Thanks Peter. It worked out. Could you help me out with another problem? The document left a blank space after a few lines of text and I cannot fin the way to eliminate that blank space (see page 6 in Thumbnails, also on page 5 ). Thanks again.

" The document left a blank space after a few lines of text and I cannot find the way to eliminate that blank space"

Following up on Peter's earlier reply:

You eliminate that 'blank' space by removing whatever is in it. As Peter suggests, it could contain a Page Break or a Section Break. Either of these will cause a 'blank' that extends to the end of the page.

Other possibilities are a series of Line breaks or Paragraph breaks. These could also (if there enough of them) cause a 'blank' extending to the bottom of the page, but are more likely to cause a smaller gap (if there are fewer than there are space for below the existing text.

Here are three things you can do to help you see what you have actually put on the pages:

• Go View (menu) > Show invisibles. This makes visible the formatting characters in the text, as displayed in your first screen shot)
• Go View > Show Layout. This will show margin settings and outlines of each object on the pages.
• Click on any object (eg. image or text box) once to select it. Handles (x for locked, boxes for unlocked) will appear at the four corners and the midpoint of each side of the space occupied by each object in the document.

Once the contents or cause of that 'blank' space are visible, it's usually a simple job to remove those contents.

Regards,

Barry

It is impossible to get rid of it. I have tried out every single recommendation. My document is a mess. Really not very neat. I'll go back to Microsoft Word. Pages is a crazy app which constantly frustrates you. For example, I cannot get rid also of page breaks and have pages with only one line of text in the whole page and the system automatically has jumped to the next page !!!

We can't see what your screen.

What version of Pages on what version of OSX?

What template? and can you show us a screen snap (command shift 4 - drag over) of the problem?

Post that via the Camera Icon in the reply.

Peter

Menu > View > Show Invisibles

Delete whatever is in the empty space, it may be a Page or Section Break.

Failing that it has something to do with your Text formatting, usually a keep paragraphs together setting.

Peter

Pages version is 5.6.2 on OSX 10.11.6

Hope you can find a solution. I also can't erase page breaks which I didn't introduce. Regards,

Click away from the box then click back on it. If you don’t get the normal corner boxes maybe you locked it. Are there tiny x’s at the corners? If so, go Arrange > Unlock. When you get the normal 8 open boxes hit Delete.

Walt

Nan,

You are expected to delete or overwrite the "Type to enter Text" content in the Text Boxes. If you don't have that phrase selected when you begin typing, it will remain with your added text. You can use Find and Replace to search and destroy the phrases in your finished document. In the future make sure the phrase is gone as you build your text box content so you don't have to find it later.

Regards,

Jerry

If you can't select the text or text box you have either moved it behind something else, to the background or locked it.

Peter

Go to the “Arrange” menu and select the entry under “Section Master” called "Make objects selectable", which allows you to select "Type to enter text", and then cut it.

The Unlock is in grey. Cannot use it.

You appear to have a stack of Textboxes all on top of each other with Textwrap on.

Menu > View > Show Layout

Clean them up.

Peter