How do I get text to flow from one page to the next in Pages 5?

Thank you. That was a helpful feature to learn.

Although I'm with everyone else... removing linked boxes was horrible short-sighted. It took a near-professional tool (I used it all the time for some fairly prominent work) to little more than a toy.

iRon

A Postscript on my story above.

My son took up the position of Head Chef in the cafe/restaurant mentioned and was basically not allowed to change anything by the duplicitious owner who was all talk and no action. After repeatedly trying to make even minor changes and being blocked by the owner, he was ready to just walk away but I persuaded him to hang on a bit and walk away on his own terms.

He is doing that now to a completely new venture where he can make a difference, and make a whole lot more money.

In that same time I have bought a touch screen Windows laptop/tablet and whilst it has been a struggle, I have now got it running multiple Operating Systems comparing the good and bad in all.

This is a much larger world than the small corners into which we often paint ourselves arguing that there is no choice, when in fact there is.

Peter

Very well put iRon & totally agree with you. How absurd is it that we pay more for devices & operating systems that we need to stay up to date with yet the very programmes that won us over in the first instance are dumbed down every time with loads of essential functionality taken away.

I too am looking at other options.

Are you writing in the text layer or using text boxes?

Text boxes are boxes you add to the document and write in. You can change the size of the box and prior to Pages 5.0 you can link them so the text flows between the boxes. This is the only way to write text in a Page layout document. In Word processing document the area between the margins is the text layer where you can write and the text will flow automatically over to a new page if needed.

Pages 5.0 has the text layer and also text boxes but the boxes can't be linked.

You would be better of if you used Pages 09 instead of Pages 5 for you older documents. Use Pages 5 only documents you need to also use over the iCloud.

Go back to Pages '09 which should still be in the Applications/iWork folder.

Peter

I can't believe this was removed from the program. 😮 😠 😕

I'll try '09.

Nice work, Apple.

Everytime I see an update from Apple, or them talking about what they will do, instead of talking about what they have done, I miss Steve. It is as if no one cares enough, or is smart enough to get it right.

I am in the middle of a multi-year project that includes newsletters requiring linked text. This feature is essential. Does anyone know if they plan to bring it back. I am moving back to older software and older OSs and telling my staff to avoid all upgrades unless the upgrade is absolutely needed. The consequences of moving to newer, when what you have is good enough, simply isn't worth it.

When is the six month deadline to get the old features back? Or was that just Apples new way of stalling and hoping a problem will go away?

While they are adding features back, how about adding export to HTML. That would be very helpful.

The six months is just for a short list of not very consequential features.

Apple is certainly hoping we will give and stop caring. At that point it may be because we have given up on Apple and stopped buying Macs.

Seems like the drift to iOS will be a self fulfilling prophecy of carrot and stick. We'll walk away from Macs because they won't be worth bothering with.

Peter

Terrence R. Redding wrote:

While they are adding features back, how about adding export to HTML.

You have to go back to Pages 2 in 2006 to have that feature. I think the chances are zero of Apple bringing it back, but you can always ask via the feedback channel. TextEdit can do it.

This is utterly frustrating and unbelievably cynical of Apple.

I have just spent £1000 on a Macbook after reading about it's superior capabilities in desktop publishing, only to fiind I have Version 5 Pages installed- this can do even less than Microsoft Publisher

I am beginning to regret my purchase.

Besides getting iWork '09:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=432&mforum=iworktips ntrick

There are a lot of other options:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=7&mforum=iworktipsnt rick

At least you didn't pay for Pages 5 (I hope).

Peter

What may be overlooked in Pages v5 is the notion of combining Text Boxes via the Menu > View > Show Arrange Tools. When you select two Text Boxes, an extra panel unfolds at the bottom of the Arrange Tools window. Uncheck one Text Box and this panel abruptly disappears.

One can achieve text flow effects between Text Boxes differently based on how one positions the Text Box overlap, and choice of effect above. Though not the accustomed flow found in Pages ’09 v4.3, flow does occur. Consider the possibilities of combining a Shape and a Text box to cut an irregular Text box.

If I create two Text Boxes and position them side by side with outline touching and choose Unite, this creates one larger Text Box and text flows across and down. On the otherhand, if I overlap the upper left corner of a lower Text Box over one above and to the left, then choose Union, pasted text fills the first Text Box and then flows across and down into the other box. Here is a Union example:

Intersect will leave a small Text Box where the two overlap, so not much value there. Subtract will cut a chunk out of one Text Box that is the size of the overlapping piece of the second Text Box:

And Intersect will leave an island in the center where the two Text Box overlap, with flow jumping over this bridge.

Clearly, this is not what we were accustomed to in the past, but with imagination, style, and layout tuning, it does offer alternative Text Box creativity and layout. Of course, there is the option of simply returning to the previous Pages version for true Text Box linking that most will want to use.

I wouldn't belabor that point Hagar.

Whilst it is interesting to be able to enter text in a shape, you could do that in Pages '09.

What you can't do, and there is no way around it, is thread text in a particular order, or any order at all, through multiple text-boxes and across pages in Page 5.

That is crippling, and no amount of imagination and constant cutting and pasting to make it fit, will turn this into something that works in practice.

Peter