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Jan 22, 2015 12:01 PM in response to Lars Hansenby PeterBreis0807,From what you are saying it sounds like you have used Pages '09 previously.
I suggest you continue using Pages '09, because Pages 5 has dropped captured pages in documents (and over 100 other features) which is what made Pages '09 so powerful.
I have not been able to find a way around Pages 5's shortcomings in this area other than to duplicate the page in the Thumbnails.
Peter
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Jan 22, 2015 12:23 PM in response to PeterBreis0807by VikingOSX,Could what he wants to do be done with Section Masters?
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Jan 22, 2015 12:49 PM in response to VikingOSXby PeterBreis0807,Section Masters have static uneditable items on every page, really just watermarks.
I take this back. It won't work in Layout mode documents but in Word Processor documents:
1. Add a vertical rule with the Shapes tool.
2. Add either 3 text boxes or a 3 row table
3. Select all the above: Menu > Arrange > Section Master > Move Objects to Section Master/Make Master Objects Selectable
4. Insert a Section Break on each page. It has to be a Section break otherwise editing the Master Objects will repeat on previous pages.
This has been always the absolute worst part of Pages 5 and I really can't figure out how anyone at Apple thought this was good design.
This was all resolved 30 years ago in PageMaker, Ready-Set-Go, and several other DTP Apps. Not to mention it worked very effectively in Pages '09.
I admit the Captured Pages implementation in Pages '09 is less than obvious, but its function once set up is way faster than anything else I know.
Peter
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Jan 22, 2015 12:41 PM in response to PeterBreis0807by VikingOSX,Yeah, I was thinking placeholder text/images and speaking with a static (Section Masters) tongue. Ok.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:50 PM in response to VikingOSXby PeterBreis0807,Viking
I changed my guide, after playing with it.
Yes you can work around it, but not in what I would consider a good way. There is a strong possibility if you don't get it right of simply overwriting previous Section Masters.
Peter
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Jan 22, 2015 1:39 PM in response to PeterBreis0807by Lars Hansen,I'll give it a try. I'm using Pages 5 and have used Pages since it came out though only sporadically. I'll try out what you've suggested but it seems like this should be a really easy to do. I think that apple is over thinking some things and changing apps simply to say they have been 'updated'. They also took away some basic UI features in iTunes which has made the program more cumbersome/less user friendly to use.
Thanks for your help, Peter and Viking
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Jan 23, 2015 5:26 AM in response to Lars Hansenby VikingOSX,As Pages v5 is not an evolution of the Pages '09 v4.3 software base, Apple has omitted considerable functionality that gave users more control over document construction and layout. Sometimes, the most elementary, intuitive tasks in Pages v5 degrade into simple frustration.
Hope you can find a path to your document goals.
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Feb 13, 2016 10:07 AM in response to Lars Hansenby chuckmcknight,★HelpfulHi,
I needed to do the same thing and used the following sequence in Pages 5:
- Select the page in the Thumbnails view
- From the Edit menu use Duplicate Selection (Command-D) to make a copy of the page.
That seems to do the trick for me.
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Mar 24, 2016 5:33 AM in response to chuckmcknightby krishanfromlondon,Thanks, I'd been trying to do this for over an hour and came across your tip - which works perfectly
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Jun 25, 2016 12:32 PM in response to chuckmcknightby DocDuke,Thanks Chuck McKnight. You nailed it!
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Sep 13, 2016 3:23 AM in response to chuckmcknightby Andrew Smith15,This solution just saved my sanity. Thank you!
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