I want multiple pages open!

Hi ceomd,

You can have many documents open in Pages. This is how to see two documents.

Drag one document by its Title bar to the left of your screen. Drag another document to the right of your screen.

Regards,

Ian

Duplicate your document and rename the copy with a name that shows it to be temporary. Open both documents and place them side-by-side. My temporary copy is on the left.

You can scroll each to a different place, and copy and paste between them. Be sure which one is your master copy, and keep saving it as you work.

Regards,

Ian.

Hi Riverboy,

Do you really need to view the front and back of the page at the same time to make them align when printing? Or could it be done by placing the form into a pair of text boxes (or as a pair of graphic objects) of identical dimensions positioned to back each other on the printed page(s).

Here's an illustration. Be sure to read the caution in the notes below.

Caution: This is not the correct view if you are producing a multi sheet newsletter. In that case, the odd-numbered page would be on the right, but would be 'a row above' the even-numbered page that would be printed on its back. For a single sheet newsletter, it does not matter which text box is on the left and which is on the right.

Process (using text boxes):

Start with Go View > Show Layout

to make the margins and header and footer boxes visible.

Click the T button in the tools to insert a Text Box on the odd-numbered page.

Drag the text box to the top right of the print area for that page, then use the handle at the lower left corner of the box to re-size it to the size and shape of your form.

With the text box still selected, press command-D to Duplicate the box.

Drag the second copy of the box to the top left corner of the print are of the even numbered page.

Optional: To check alignment, select both text boxes and use the line popup in the tool bar to choose a solid or dashed line, set its weight to 2 points, and its colour to black, then do a two-sided print o the two pages. Adjust as (and if) necessary. Reset the line type to None afterwards.

Regards,

Barry

Hi Riverboy,

I've posted the screen shots and directions below, but when I finished and was looking for a way to change the page stream back to the 'normal' single column of pages, I (re)discovered the much easier way. Skip to the end of the post for that information.

Here's a new set of screen shots showing the two steps to the process in Numbers '09 (Numbers v2). The view has been reduced to 25% to fit multiple pages on the screen.

In the original document, the pages are stacked one above the other.

I have already done View > Show Layout

In addition to the body text, I've added "Page " and done Insert > Page number in the header of Page 1. Numbers automatically inserts the page numbers in the headers of all pages in the document.

Click on the ( i ) button to open the Inspector.

Click the first icon in the row at the top of the Inspector window to go to the Document Inspector.

If necessary, click the Document button in the next row.

Click to check the Facing Pages checkbox (see blue arrow).

Your document should now look like the illustration below:

Note that Page 1 is a right hand page, as are all odd numbered pages.

If you want to view the pages with the odd pages on the left, click the Facing Pages checkbox again to uncheck it.

Result shown below:

As mentioned above, that's the hard way.

Here's the easy way:

Go to the bottom left corner of the document window. Click the box displaying the view scale (125% here).

Then click to choose One up or Two up.

Sometimes you have to use a feature regularly to keep it in your head! 🙂

Regards,

Barry

Hi,

You can, as Ian mentioned have several Pages Documents open, and visible at the same time. But Pages does not support several views of the same document. The closest it comes to that is the ability to show a two-up display of odd-numbered pages on the right, and the previous even numbered page to the left of it, as you would see them in opening a physical book.

You might consider making a Feature request, using the Provide Pages Feedback item in the Pages menu 9in Pages '09).

Regards,

Barry

Peter wrote: Ooooh, dangerous…

Gosh (blush) 😊

Ian wrote: Be sure which one is your master copy, and keep saving it as you work.

Ian adds:

'My very important document' is on the right (Save, Save, Save), and the disposable one that I would normally name as 'Fred' is on the left. Before I shut down my computer, I delete all Freds. Then I can shut down too (Zzz...) with confidence.

As a former Australian MP once said: 'Please explain'.

Ian.

Just don't let that concentration lapse for a minute or you will be up Scheiss Creek without a paddle.

Like standing one legged on the parapet of a very tall building. Don't take a wrong step and she'll be right…

OOOOOOPPPPSSSSssssssssss…

As a former Head of the US Reserve once said "Nobody could have seen that one coming…" 😉

(Other than all the people we ignored).

Peter

I also have this problem. The answer works for different documents but not for the same document. My dilemma concerns a Newsletter that I produce for a charity. This involves tear out strips for outings and means that the front and back of each strip must align. On Windows I can see two pages at once and makes this task effortless. Can I do this on my Pages?

Hello Barry, thank you for that information. I was doing really well until

the end when I cannot see the two pages as shown in your clip. How did you

achieve that please?

Howard

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Would View > Page Thumbnails come close to what you want?

Regards,

Ian.

Not quite what the O.P was hoping for but thumbnails can be dragged out to be quite large. On my screen I can get them up to 5cm wide which is about 25% of the actual size of an A4.

Peter

Ooooh, dangerous…

Peter

In Pages '09 yes.

In Pages 5.5.3 no.

Peter