In Pages 5.6.1, how can I open a new document, from a template, without opening the Inspector? I find no way to disable or turn off the Inspector.
I've searched these support pages, and Googled this, & come up dry on this. Anyone …?
Note: I'm not asking about doing this in older versions of Pages. And using fullscreen mode is not a good workaround; I need to see my Finder windows while I open new Pages docs.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Peter, thanks for your reply.
I mean the Inspector, which in Pages 5.6.1 is a panel automatically displayed on the right side of a new document. It contains formatting options. See my screenshot #1, where I boxed the Inspector in red:
The Inspector can be manually invoked by View > Inspector, and manually hidden, by the key command Option + Command + I. But I can't find a way to automatically disable or hide the Inspector on opening a new document. See my screenshot #2:
To be clear: I'm familiar with what is called, in 5.6.1, the Template Chooser, in Preferences > For New Documents. I've created my own document template(s) there; it works great. I don't find an option there, or anywhere else in 5.6.1, to disable or turn off the automatic display of the Inspector when I open a new document. See my screenshot #3 of the Template Chooser:
If the difference between the Inspector and the Template Chooser is clear, I'm open to all suggestions.
I find that the Format button in the toolbar toggles the Inspector on & off:
1. Open new document
2. Click Format button in toolbar to turn off Inspector
Here's a screenshot:
That's almost a solution to my question; a mouse action is sometimes easier than a 3-key command. But I prefer to work in Pages without toolbars.
I'm looking for some way to turn the Inspector off globally, and leave it off until I want it.
—FL
I also find this, in Pages Help:
It could be that Apple gives only some controls over sidebars—that the option to disable or hide the Inspector as the default behavior for new documents is not included in Pages 5.6.1.
But I'll be grateful for any more suggestions!
—FL
You mean the Template Viewer, not the Inspector.
You can always save a template to somewhere on your Desktop and open that by double clicking on it, or nominate it in Pages Preferences as the default Template.
Peter
It is all in the way we read the question. 🙂
I get what you mean. Unfortunately Pages 5 seems to not save the open state of either the Application or Template. So to my knowledge unless Apple has sneaked something back in, no you can't have a hidden state.
The old keyboard shortcut of command option i to Show/Hide the Inspector still exists, so the best you can do is quickly hide it after it pops up.
Peter
I think you're right. It's an odd asymmetry of actions—I can:
- hide the Inspector manually
- unhide it manually
- leave it visible automatically
- but not hide it automatically
Oddly—& tangential to this—on my Mini running OS 10.10.5, Pages 5.6.1 doesn't respond to Option + Command + I to hide the Inspector. Other key combos in Pages work fine, but (on this install at least)to hide the Inspector, I have to mouse to the View menu choice, or to the Format/ or Document buttons in Pages's toolbar.
If anyone reads this thread and has some new ideas, please weigh in. Meanwhile, I'm off to find some other word processor to fuss with.
You can hide the side panel, the toolbars, and save the now minimal document as a template. When you choose to create a new document from that template, the hidden Toolbars remain so, and the Format panel reasserts its presence.
I watched the Pages preference file change a numeric value in Xcode when I toggled Toolbars on and off. No such change occurred when I toggled the Inspector off and then on. Thus, the ability to set a particular Inspector default from the Terminal is not possible.
The option+command+I keyboard shortcut does work to toggle the Inspector panel with Pages v5.6.1 on El Capitan 10.11.2.
There are some deliberately minimalist GUI word processing applications in the OS X App Store that are specifically designed for focused writing. More than a few of these utilize mark down syntax. Uylsses has a trial demo, and might be one clutterfree approach to undiluted writing.
That sounds conclusive, Viking—& it matches behavior I'm seeing in 10.10.5. (Thank you for checking in a terminal; I'm not knowledgable enough to hunt down files in Xcode.)
I'll continue my hunt for an app I prefer.
I tried Pages only because I'm fed up with MS Word '08 on a 2012-era Mini. Bean is a good backup choice. With toolbars &c turned off, it presents a simple page-window with pretty good WYSIWYG.
Thanks for your input, guys.
TextEdit or AI Writer may suit your needs if you want basic writing.
There are many other writing Apps around, quite a few free like Bean which I quite like.
Peter
How to bypass the Inspector with a new document?
