Pages 5 features checklist

It's true, and thanks, Pages '09 is under the old iwork folder.

now I can get back to work instread of work-arounds or using msword/open office or the likes.

Hi Peter,

I shall up(?)grade to the new versions of Pages and Numbers to help me understand the many questions now flooding these forums. However, I shall keep Pages'09 and Numbers'09 as the defaults for my everyday work.

To safeguard against any 😉 demise of iWork'09 I shall backup important data in plain text. And print on acid-free paper. Then store in a humidity-controlled vault.

Regards,

Ian.

Ian,

Mike here again :-). Finding the old PAGES under APPLICATIONS/iWORK/Pages 09 was genius! This is what power users shoudl just do untiol Apple fixes the massive shortcommings in 5.

I tried to set the default app for PAGES docs to the Pages 09 using the GET INFO/OPEN WITH then CHANGE ALL so ALL pages docs default to the Pages 09. It woud NOT let me do this. It kept forcing Pages 5 as the default! Is there another way? I ended up deleting the new Pages and that did the trick--now it defaults to the Pags 09 and keeps the dosuments from being accidetally changed into the new ormat (un-openable with pages 09).

Thanks again!

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Mike

Hi Mike,

I have not got as far as you have. My thoughts were to create an alias of Pages'09 from the Applications folder and drag that alias to the Dock. That (I think) would be my default app. When I really, really need Pages 5, I thought I could fire it up from Applications folder.

Please reply if this works. I am not really a guru.

Regards,

Ian.

why brother these is so many useable features to ....................... these is some compatibility issues with older version of pages but it can be fix later on pages update 5.1

Eureka! I have just reverted my iPad back to the old version of Pages 1.7.2 that is compatible with 4.3 (which I found and reverted to earlier by doing a search)

The basic instructions are here:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/07/revert-to-older-version-ios-app-itunes.html

Unlike the article, I had to use Time Machine to reproduce an older version of iOS Pages. iTunes Apps are in the iTunes folder under 'Mobile Applications'. Once done, I moved it out of the iTunes folder and re-installed it as per the article.

I can sleep - my documents are safe once again.

Jerrold,

It's kind of still there. Open one of the Apple templates, then select View>Inspector>Document Setup. About half way down, under the header and Footer information, un-check the box labeled "Document Body." Now you'll have a Page Layout document.

You can add back in the Document Body, but can't uncheck it again without losing all of the "Document Body" content.

Also missing, which no one's mentioned:

Mask from any shape (not only square)

Regression doesn't even strat describing how bad Pages 13 is. As I see it, Pages 13 doesn't introduce any new functionality (except collaboration), but it removes tonnes.

I've placed Pages 13 on a NAS. That way, if I ever need it, I can launch it from there. And no, it doesn't work from Starbucks 😀

(how do I delete this message?)

Good to know, thanks! I will need this until the features are added back in as they are used extensively in our invoicing system.

New "feature:" if you want to open an existing template you previously created, you are forced to first add it to "Template Chooser." You can't simply open the template and use it. Seems like a very amateurish software design flaw. It's totally unnecessary.

I use an ever expanding number of templates all day long. Adding each different template to my "Template Chooser" is not workable for me.

Have to go back to 4.3.

Mike Boone wrote:

3. Selecting a section/page in thumbnail window to delete it — GONE so how do you delete a section now!?

11. Add a section - GONE (in that it only adds it to end of the document—does not INSERT it, it adds it and then you cannot move it to another place).

Vis 3. As per online help system, to delete a section (break) you delete the section (break) as you did before in 4.3. To delete the text / content of a section you have to select the text in the document and delete it. So this is possible, but the easier way of doing it (deleting sections in thumbnail browser) is no longer available.

Vis 11. You can add sections in the middle of other sections - there may be several ways of doing it, but one that seems to work is simply to scroll to text in the middle of a section of text, and go to the 'Section' pane (Setup Gear, Section Tab on RHS) and click on the drop-down "Create New Section" - which offers to add one at end of the section or 'Starting with this page'. Not exactly what you could do before, but it is certainly not the case that you can only add sections to end of document

HTH