I don't know how to identify the version of my Pages, but it is on a recently purchased MacBook Air.
I need to adjust format, and when I click on the T (text) icon in the book bar, all it does is open a text box at the location of the cursor. How do I open the Text Inspector?
If in the menu I click on View->Inspector, there's one format and one for document setup, but none for text.
MacBook Air, iOS 8
The information about your Mac is under the Apple menu : About this Mac
The information about every App is under the App Menu. In this case the Pages menu. About Pages
Guessing that you have Pages v5, when you select the text you want to change, the formatting information appears in the sidebar under the Format menu.
The labels of the menus and separate sections of the sidebar all mean what they say.
Peter
The equivalent of the previous Pages '09 Text Inspector is found in the View ▸ Inspector ▸ Format Text panel. The T on the Toolbar simply drops a Text box into your document — just like it does in Pages '09, whereas the now opened Format Text panel allows you to change font characteristics, paragraph and character styles, text alignment, line spacing, and apply bullets & lists.
If you are using a Pages '09 manual, it does not apply to Pages v5 which has no PDF manual. Use the Help menu, and choose Pages Help from it.
Thanks. The operative term is "equivalent". In other words, in Version 5 of Pages a "Text Inspector" no longer exists, and its function is picked up by Format Text Panel.
In the future I'll probably advise the user use LaTeX/Texstudio rather than Pages. I find it LaTeX much easier to use or at least I'll be able to give help.
If you are going the LaTeX/TeX route, you might want to take a closer look at Pandoc, which can translate to many other document formats. It is a command-line tool, and installs mostly in /usr/local/bin. Want to convert from LaTeX to Word .docx, or Markdown — not problem.
Thanks VikingOSX
I see that pandoc reads LaTeX, but I don't see any indication that it imports or exports to Page format (whatever that is). The person I'm helping is my wife, and I recommended a MacBook Air for obvious reasons, rather than her old Windows machine. I've not used a word processor since the great old desktop publishing application Describe (for OS/2? 1998?). Since then I've relied on LaTeX. I was shocked by how obscure Pages is. Guidelines never seem to agree. Doing something that should be simple in a desktop publishing environment has unexpected disastrous results because a document is conceived entirely differently. As for LaTeX, the divorce of form and content also makes things very easy (usually).
You use Pandoc to translate the LaTeX/TeX content into MS Word .docx. Then you open the MS Word document in Pages. There is no direct to Pages converter in Pandoc, and it, as well as everything else in the world, cannot read native .pages documents.
pandoc --help | more
pandoc -f latex -t docx -o latex.docx example1.tex
Text inspector does not open
