How do I set the default Object Placement in new pages?

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How do I set the default Object Placement in new pages?

I often drag and drop images to pages, but the default is that these images do not move with the text.

How do I change the default for this setting? This always worked with the old pages 09...

I've tried a lot of different approaches including creating a new template or applying a new style to the objects. But it seems that the style does not affect the object placement settings at all. And the template didn't work either.

Has anybody already figured out how to do this?

Many thanks in advance!

xifle

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Posted on Nov 5, 2013 2:50 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 10, 2013 4:39 AM in response to xifle

Hello xifle, I have the same issue with pages. Indeed, it is time consuming to have to format the placement of each image I insert so that text wraps around it. Sometimes, I would need the image to float so that I can position it more effectively. Finally, wouldn't it be nice to have screen shots inserted into a pages doc scale down to a pred-determined size. We are surely hundreds of users needing this same feature. Great streamlining, but an overall weak version of Pages at the moment. Regards, Emmanuel in Switzerland

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fruhulda

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Nov 10, 2013 5:04 AM in response to xifle

On the older Pages it depended on how you dragged and pasted the image. That is you could press the cmd key and get the image inline or was it floating. Don't remember but I know I could choose it. Maybe it works in Pages 5.0 too.

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xifle Author

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Nov 10, 2013 6:29 AM in response to xifle

@fruhulda: I've already tried this with various key combinations and also drag&drop vs. copy&paste, but nothing helped.. :-/

@emmanuel: you're absolutely right. The current version of Pages has a lot of bugs / missing features!

Best regards,

xifle

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