How to add a Cover Page to an existing document

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How to add a Cover Page to an existing document

I have a Pages document created with a Word Processing template and with Facing Pages, page 1 beginning with the right page. All of the following Section breaks will begin with the right page as in a book. The space shown to the left of page 1 currently is a blank, grey area. I would like to use this space as a cover page.

If I insert either a page break or section break at the top of page 1, it pushes page 1 down and to the left. That is not what I want. I would simply like to add the "cover" page to the left of page 1 (and continue to begin later sections/chapters at the right.

Is that possible, and if so, how do I do it?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), iPhone 5

Posted on Feb 10, 2014 5:32 PM

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Ralphjh Author

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Feb 19, 2014 3:24 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Update: I believe that I fixed the problem of deleting “one” page by trying the method suggested here:

Deleting a Single Page in Pages '09: Apple Support Communities

but I still don’t understand it.

Ralph

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Answer 2

Feb 10, 2014 6:27 PM in response to Ralphjh

Odd pages are always to the right of Facing Pages in the layout.

A cover page should also be on the right and if need be, followed by a blank page, which you can do with a Page Break.

It sounds like you want your cake and eat it.

Either that or what you are describing is the dustcover which needs to be a spread + spine + wrapfolds and since that is a different size to the internal pages of a book, in Pages it would have to be a separate document.

Peter

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Ralphjh Author

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Feb 11, 2014 4:45 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

Odd pages are always to the right of Facing Pages in the layout.

A cover page should also be on the right and if need be, followed by a blank page, which you can do with a Page Break.

Hello again Peter, thanks for the advice.

What I actually did was insert the cursor at the beginning of page 1, and in the Menu, I did an Insert > Choose... and selected a one-page cover document. With a bit of trial and error, I was able to get the artwork to completely cover the page. However, the cover is now labeled as page 1 and I would prefer it and the following blank page to not be page numbered. I consider this as a temporary work-around so I could export to a pdf file.

Now, what I would like to do further is add a new chapter to the end of the file. In the Insert > Sections menu, I have previously created a “Chapter” Section but after adding it to the end of my document and changing the Header to read Chapter 2, it also changed all of the previous headers on the right facing pages. Not good :-(

Ralph

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Answer 4

Feb 12, 2014 2:28 AM in response to Ralphjh

click in the first Section you want to number > Inspector > Layout > Section > Page Numbers > Start at: 1 > uncheck Use previous headers & footers

Go back to the first 2 pages and delete the contents of the headers/footers.

The process is simple. Either a Section repeats what came before it, or not.

You also have the option to make the right and left pages different.

Peter

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Ralphjh Author

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Feb 19, 2014 12:31 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Hi Peter,

Sorry for the late response but I was working on a Final Cut Express project that was demanding all of my attention

I was able to fix the beginning as you suggested but the end is a different matter. My Pages document is set up as facing pages, each section beginning at the right. At one time during the document development, the last right side page was empty (grey, not white) which would have allowed me to begin a new chapter on the page. However, once a new blank page was inserted, there appears to be no way to begin a new chapter with that page. If I insert a chapter break either at the beginning of that last right side page or at the end of the previous left page, I end up with 2 blank pages between chapters

There appears to be no way to delete a single page at the end of a section. It wants to delete the entire section. If I delete all of the content on that page as suggested in the user guide, it also deletes the headers of all of the preceding pages in the section.

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