Layout Break?

If you select a sequence of paragraphs and changes the number of columns of the selection, a layout break will be inserted automatically before and after the selected paragraphs. This means that the action of inserting layout breaks was not removed from Pages afterall, but embedded in the command of choosing the number of columns of a selection. If you make pages show the invisible characters (View => Show Invisibles), you will see a symbol for each layout break that is automatically created.

Thank you for posting this update. It's astonishing that Apple didn't tell their Support people, or update the "Help" feature so we could get this information ourselves. I'd like to charge them for the time they cost me--like they charge for a phone call.

That was noted before.

The question was how to insert Layout Breaks, because you could do a whole lot more with Layout breaks in Pages '09.

You could tuck in the margin insets and control before and after spacing.

I like the new method for changing column numbers but that does not make it the Layout Break we used to have.

Peter

This totally worked. I was messing around with section breaks and couldn't get it to work the old way, but they made it much simpler, so no need to insert the rectanulare blocks as Jerrold demonstrated above. Just select the text you want to break and tell it how many columns.

Tim Lings wrote:

It seems that it's there, but it does it automatically for you.

Say, for example, you want the title as a single column, then some lines with multiple columns, and then some text underneath as a single column again.

What you do is select the text you want as 3 columns and change it to 3 columns. Then select the text underneath you want as a single column and make it a single column. Do View>Show Layout to see what's going on.