When I used to open Pages, Numbers or Keynote, I would see a choice to open a new document or a little dropdown of "Recent Items." This was a convenient way to just quickly open what I had recently been working on. Now that dropdown is gone. I have to close the start up splash screen and go to the File>Recent Items to do this. It used to be one click, now it is three.
I can't find any documentation about this change. Is it just me?
Which MacOs system and which Pages version do you have?
Pages O9 on a MacBook running the latest version of Mountain Lion. My big gripe is that the screen changed, but I don't know why. The one thing I have done is activate iCloud, and I'm wondering if that's the culprit.
I wish I had a screenshot of the way it used to be... it opened with the list of templates and the recent document tab rather than the list of files.
Hi Zaimejs,
Pages > Preferences > General
it opened with the list of templates
Select Show Template Chooser for a list of templates when you start Pages.
and the recent document tab rather than the list of files.
Umm... I am not sure what you mean. This is how I open recent documents:
I am using Pages'09 version 4.3
Macbook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3
Option 2.
Create an alias for a frequently used document. Open Pages by double clicking on the alias, rather than opening Pages from the Dock.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Ian.
Menu > Pages > Preferences > General > For New Documents > check Show Template Chooser
Peter
That makes it show the template screen, but on the bottom right of the template screen, there used to be an "Open Recent" button. I'll show you:
This is what I see now when I open a new document:
This is what I used to see:
See all those cool buttons at the bottom left? gone.
Apple has been fiddling with the interface and that is just one of the "improvements":
Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback
Peter
So it is like this for everyone running '09 4.3. I just checked and my colleague still has 4.1. Sure wish i had that.
Why does Apple keep taking away good stuff and replacing it with bad? I don't understand. Mail, iTunes, and now Pages... all losing functionality and appeal.
Just on a sidenote... I hate the new iTunes interface. and don't get me started in iMovie.
Grrrr... so no rollback or fix?
You are not alone.
There are some alarmingly bad instances of broken User Interface in Pages, OSX, and as you point out many other Apple applications.
As a corporation grows older I think there is a point of onset dementia. Apple seems to have reached its. In its search for change for change's sake and throwing out the baby when there isn't even any bathwater, it has lost all that early genius that I just watched and stood in awe of.
I can not understand how such a large organisation with such enormous resources at its disposal can be producing so little and what little they are producing is of such questionable quality. All they seem to be concentrating on is thinness, marketing and tax schemes.
I do hope something is changing at that spaceship HQ, and for the better.
Peter
What an awesome response. I was expecting some fanboys to come and attack me. I have been an Apple enthusiast since 1995... and I have to say that I see the same thing. Thinness. That's pretty funny. I just bought a new iPad mini, and I am impressed by the thinness and usability. But I think it's mostly a toy rather than a production tool. Apple used to be about having users MAKE things. Now I'm not sure that's their focus. The people who kept them afloat in the lean years, the creators, have been put on a backburner. You definitely see this with the lack of a new Mac Pro model.
I sent my feedback about Pages. I don't expect anything good to come of it. I really do wonder... maybe there are people who are afraid of losing their jobs, so they pitch changes for the sake of change.... some lower level manager was looking at the Pages interface and said, "Why do we have these two buttons here? It would be so much cleaner and thinner without them!" completely forgetting about functionality.
Windows Start Button fiasco anyone?
This is my classic example of just how bad things have got:
The menu items shouldn't be grey and everything under them should be pop-out menus.
They actually had it right before and some incompetent nincompoop changes it in an almost hilariously awful fashion. The shame on Apple is not just that things like this are constantly happening, where they wouldn't have before, but that nobody is checking or preventing it or even understands why this is obviously wrong…
…or even cares
So it seems that is the norm now.
Peter
"See all those cool buttons at the bottom left? gone."
Still there in mine:
Pages '09 v4.3 (1048), OS X v10,8,3
Regards,
Barry
Barry
Not on mine at home nor here on the Apple: Store Pages 4.3 (1048) OSX 10.8.3 and scouting through all the preferences and menus I can't find anywhere that would either turn it on or off.
I can't imagine that System Preferences would change internal UI, but I searched for those as well. No luck.
Curious!
Peter
Hi all,
Curiouser and curiouser. Bottom left of Template Chooser:
On Pages'09 (1048) with OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3
Regards,
Ian.
Barry and Ian
How were your Pages installed?
Mine is from an iWork '09 DVD, but I imagine the AppleStore probably(?) is via a network install. They are reset everyday.
Peter
Hi Peter,
I purchased and downloaded Pages (and Numbers) from the App Store. I accept updates when App Store notifies me.
Regards,
Ian.
What happened to "recent items" when I open iWorks?
