Pages looses half of its functionality if you cannot use outling when you write.
I see how to make headings and bulleted lists but no way to collapse and expand them.
Does anyone know if this is still possible? There used to be a menu item called Outline View. It's disappeared.
TIA
We are not permitted to speculate about future Pages product plans that Apple does not share with us anyway.
Pages v5 is missing scores of features that are available in MS Word, the older Pages '09 product, AppleWorks, or some other current product. We have heard this chant every day for the last two years when it was originally released. Apple has been focused elsewhere, as Pages v5 has received precious few changes since its birth. That track record ought to send a very clear message to those still holding their breath for improvements.
Omni Outliner works great. Will export as an RTF so you have to adjust the copy and paste once you paste back into Pages.
Apple is out of touch with the end user! They used to be so good at knowing what people needed and wanted.
Lists are not outlining.
Peter
Peter, What post are you referring to? OmniOutliner?
Apologise Efferigan2,
I replied on my PC laptop and must have got posts crossed.
Someone posted lists as a solution. Obviously not you. 🙂
Peter
mfergu01 wrote:
WOW--dropping outline view was a HORRIBLE mistake! I was in the middle of a huge manuscript, had updated Pages, and then opened it up to get working and saw my carefully crafted outline converted into a massive block of text. Lovely--thanks a lot?! This sort of ridiculous mistake starts making Omni Group or Microsoft seem like viable companies again. Where's Steve when you need him? :-(
You know where Steve Is, he is where he has been for the last 5 years
I think not. I am using Pages 6.0 and Outline View has still gone. Also, Pages can no longer open RTF files. Is it a real word processor?
Dr_Wombat wrote:
Pages can no longer open RTF files. Is it a real word processor?
You use it, what do you think?
I'm old enough to remember when Word, Powerpoint and Excel were Mac programs, all on one 128K floppy disk. When Microsoft took them over and created the bloatware that is Office, I was happy to move to iWork, which was smaller, cleaner and included the wonderful iWeb. Then Mac killed off iWork and iWeb and beefed up Pages, Numbers and Keynote without improving them - in fact they began taking bits away, like outlining and RTF. Inexplicably, RTF has moved to what used to be the simple, workmanlike Text Edit, which now includes formatting and is therefore useless for coding. What's the strategy here? So for my purposes, BBEdit is my text editor, Scrivener is my creative writing app (with Rolls Royce outlining) and an old copy of Word 2011 has come back into service for word processing and formatting.
Outline View missing in Pages 5.0
