Inserting images into header

Hello Everyone, there is a very easy way to add an image to the header of every page of your document. Apple just changed the approach. I wish they had offered some migration advice, however they did not. So, here is what you do.

1. In the menu bar click on Insert > Choose. Select the image you want to add to your document.

   You can also drag-and-drop media or copy-and-paste media into your document. The main point here is that you get the media (JPG, GIF, PNG, AI, PDF, Etc.) onto your page.

2. Position your media however you want it to appear on every page. Click on it and use the Format options to style it as desired.
3. With the media still selected, yet positioned exactly where you want it to appear, in the menu bar click on Arrange > Section Masters > Move Object To Section Master.

That's it. Now that media (object) will be visible on every page of your document that uses the same Section Master. You can create additional section masters under Setup > Section.

I also have the same question.

All my documents have company image headers and now when I open the old pages documents they are totally messed up.

1. I cannot insert one now. Why?

2. Does this mean i have to change all my documents that I have done so far?

By the way I have more than 10 mac users in my company, is this going to be a definite problem for all of us?

Same problem here. Talked for 1,5 hours to an Apple Care rep. Problem exists on multiple computers.

When opening a '09 Pages doc in '13, graphics in tables are being removed and all graphics from the header. Seems like a major bug.

So until problem solved I will use previous Pages app. Do not to try to open them in '13; otherwise they are converted permanently!

Same problem here. Totally screwed up my letterhead. I may have found a "fix," though. I happened to have the image that I was using in the header saved as a separate PDF, but I think it should work for image files. I opened the image in Preview, copied it, then pasted it into the body of the document. Then I resized it and dragged it up to the header and it landed there with no problem. I found, however, that once I dropped the image into the header it couldn't be moved. It appears that you have one shot to get it right (otherwise you'll have to undo and try again). In other words, I couldn't resize it easily once it was in the header. It took some trial and error, but I got it to work. But it really shouldn't be this difficult and we shouldn't have to be finding work-arounds for things that should be as simple as this.

I found a solution to this problem. It is however only a solution for new documents. Opening older version documents still has this problem.

Since I am using Pages in Dutch I will not explain the full procedure but if you go into help and search for page-background you will find a way to have e.g. a logo on all pages of a specific section, without putting it into the header.

Please reply to this post if you have more questions.

Cheers,

Bas.

Just now got a reply from Apple (development); functionality has been changed intentionally. Your response seems to contain the reason for it. However having a non-intuitive action as replacement is not Apple-like! Is this again a little crack in Jobs's Apple?

I can't copy an image in the header section. This functionality was available in Pages '09 and now it disappeared. It is extremely important for some of us that create proposals and other work-related documents to be able to paste the logo of our company in all of the pages of the document. Doing complicated and manual work isn't in line with Apple's culture. Please fix.

But my documents won't open in previous version of Page??? So I'm now stuck without all my hdeaders, is there an answer to this yet? I'm desperate, all these documents were part of an upload to a new website due to launch over the weekend.

This is not a "fix". Based on other posts, you mean to tell me that Apple actually removed functionality that is KEY to creating professional documents, proposals and estimates in Pages?

Tell me I don't have to move to Word for my documents. What do you have to say about this Apple!? This is criminal.

There have been a large number of features removed and changed in Pages 5.

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&mforum=iworktipsn trick

You can open Pages '09 from your Appliactions/iWork folder.

Trash or archive Pages 5 and review/rate it in the App Store.

Peter

By the way, if you want to change how you've applied the media (object) you go back to the menu bar and click on Arrange > Section Master > Make Master Objects Selectable. That menu item will then have a checkmark next to it. You can now click on the media (object) you inserted and changes its position and formatting as desired.

To lock that media (object) back in place you go back to the menu bar and click on Arrange > Section Master > Make Master Objects Selectable. That will uncheck that option, therby locking everything back in place.

That is not a changed approach.

You can do exactly the same thing in Pages '09, where it works much more flexibly because the objects can be part of automatically inserting captured master pages/sections.

…and it is certainly not as easy as being able to do the obvious one step paste or drag into the header/footer.

Which you can not do in Pages 5.

Peter

I'm so sick of them dumbing down these programs so they will be "ios compliant." Is that the reason you can no longer export a keynote presentation to quicktime? I am totally hosed if they stop letting us use the legacy iwork programs... I've been using Apple products since 1987 and I have to say I am seriously disappointed. The fact that I have to use Microsoft Word just to put an image in the header is complete and utter stupidity. Way to go Mr. Cook.

oh YEAH! That works smoothly.

Thanks for sharing, you made my day. That definitely solves the issue. Apple just took a different approach on this one.😎

The approach they took is that as the ios version of pages cannot handle an image in a header, they blocked the mac version from doing it