Adding a Cover Page to Existing Document

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Adding a Cover Page to Existing Document

Hi,

I have completed a document that is formatted the way that I want it with pictures and text. I decided that I would like to add a cover page to the document and do not know how to insert a page at the beginning without ruining the format.
Any help is greatly appreciated

Macbook, Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Sep 5, 2006 1:18 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 5, 2006 3:15 PM in response to fjm222

fjm,

first, create a copy of your file so that you can revert to it in case you need to.

You could simply create a separate Pages file for the cover page. Depending on how you want to distribute the file, there are several possibilities:

Print both documents and combine the pages
Export both files to PDF and use Automator to combine both PDFs
Show page thumbnails (in the View menu) in both documents.
Click on the thumbnail of your cover page and use command-c to copy it.
Click on the thumbnail of the last page of your document and paste
the cover page (command-v). Then drag the page to the top of the thumbnails.
On the other hand, you could duplicate the first page of your document (Edit/Duplicate or command-d) and insert a section break between this page and the former page one. Go to Layout inspector and adjust the settings on the Section tab (Page Numbers, Configuration) of the now second page.
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PowerBook G4 17", 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.7) iMac G5 20"; iPod 3G, iPod Shuffle, iSight

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Answer 2

fjm222 Author

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Sep 5, 2006 5:55 PM in response to Matthias Rempe

Thanks for the great explanation and alternatives.

Automator works great for combining PDF's

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