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Why can't I move from say page one to page fifty without using thumbnails?
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Because that capability is not engineered into the Pages v5 application.
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If I know how many pages are in the document, with my System Preferences > General set like this:
one click in the scroll bar gets me pretty close. (I.e, in a 100 page document click halfway down, in a 200 page document, one quarter of the way, etc.)
Pages '09, now discontinued, is still available from Amazon, and works under Yosemite. It has a status bar at the bottom of the document. By default, it shows Page 1 of n. Click on this page count section, and it changes to Go to Page: __ .
If you had Pages '09 installed, then updated to Yosemite and installed Pages v5.5 or later, the Pages '09 application would have been silently moved into your Applications/iWork '09 folder.
thanks for the advice. I had pages 09 on macbook but I bought a new macbook air. I have not been able to transfer files by migration assistant. If I bought 09 from Amazon I would have to buy a device to transfer the software and pay for it. For now, I'll go scroll around. I hope apple will put that feature back in
There are still a couple of options.
- Find someone that will allow you to use their external USB DVD/CD player. You won't need to install any drivers.
Purchase iWork '09 from Amazon, install, and immediately follow it with the Apple iWork 9.3 update. That gives you the latest updates.
- Find someone with a built-in DVD player in their Mac.
- On the same network, put the iWork '09 DVD into their drive, and on your Mac, use Remote Disc to access/install the DVD contents on your machine.
- Follow-up with the previous Apple iWork 9.3 update.
Existing Pages v5 documents will need to be exported to Pages '09 before opening them in Pages '09 v4.3.
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