I've edited a document, and the text box present was too small for the amount of text I've pasted. So there is too much text in the box, and I'm at the end of a page. How do I get the box to extend onto a new page which I need to insert? Or is it a question of cutting the text and inserting a new page, new box and pasting it again?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Hi hudsonfall,
In Page Thumbnails, if the pages are surrounded by a yellow border, they are linked as one section and will move as one.
To separate them, Menu > Insert > Section Break.
Regards,
Ian.
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned this- it's a word document that I needed to open and edit. So all the boxes, layout etc were already there. I only needed to change a few things, it's just this one box that is too small, it's in the middle of the document by the way.
I'm using 5.5.2 yes.
Thanks!
A Text box is restricted to the page on which it resides, so you will not be able to pull down on the + overflow symbol and enlarge the Text box across the page boundary. Your text fitment options are to change one or more of these variables: text inset, font, font size, font spacing, or line spacing within the Text box.
No version of Pages is an MS Word clone. Word documents are translated into the internal Pages document architecture rather than edited in native .doc/.docx format. So, you can guess what happens on export back to .docx format.
If you are round-tripping documents from MS Word users, your least amount of embarrassment would be to use Word for Mac 2011, so that you remain within the native Word document architecture.
Hi hudsonfall,
Viking is correct. A Text Box will not split across a page boundary. Think of a Text Box as an object such as a pic. It stays together. You will have to arrange your document to keep the Text Box on one page.
Something I learned about documents: leave the pagination until the very last, after all the editing of the text 🙂.
Regards,
Ian.
Yep, I'm with you now. Thanks. So I've created a few extra pages at the end(Couldn't insert where I wanted) so now I just want to reorder the pages in the document. Went to View- View Page Thumbnails but it's treating the pages as 1(i.e. I added 3 pages and it thins I want to move all 3 as 1) and they won't move anyway. Thought this was sorted in 5.5.2??
Thanks guys, feeling like a novice today!!
Hi hudsonfall,
Does it look like this? A plus sign on the bottom margin of the Text Box?
(Ignore the nonsense Lorem Ipsum text.)
Drag the plus sign down or drag a handle on the Text Box
Regards,
Ian.
Hi hudsonfall,
Did you open a template and edit?
(Menu > New from Template Chooser)
If so, which template?
Which version of Pages? 5.5.2 ?
More information will lead to a solution 🙂.
Regards,
Ian.
Thanks for your responses. I thought there might not be a way round it. OK, so I need to insert a page, am I being stupid I can't seem to do that without it being at the end?
Position your pointer at the end of the current page's body text, and insert page. You may want to visit the view menu, and temporarily, show invisibles.
How to extend text box in Pages when pasted text
