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Using Pages 5.6.1, I seem to be stuck with several inches of blank space between my header, which took a half hour to learn how to create, and the table below it. I have been using Pages for over a decade and am wondering "what is going on with me and Pages!?" Is this the end?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
Your more fully featured, and familiar friend Pages '09 v4.3 may very well be waiting for you in your Applications : iWork '09 folder. Use what you are familiar with, and better documented. Pages v5.6.1 is the latest in a 2+ year bag of hurt that has imposed frustration, lost functionality, bugs, and lost time on nearly everyone that has used it.
Thank you. I cut and pasted to my 4.3 version but still am unable to make a dent in that mysterious 3-inch tall space at the bottom of page one, which lacks any invisibles, yet within which i can fill it with Paragraph symbols by hitting the enter/return button many times.
First thing. In your Text Inspector : More tab, deselect Prevent widow & orphan lines. Secondly, review your Wrap Inspector settings for Object Causes Wrap : Above and Below. You may have to change the wrap style with the table nearing the document bottom. If these two Inspector activities have solved the mysterious space issue, then disregard the next paragraph.
Place your insertion point at the beginning of your document. Open the Text Inspector to its Text tab. Repeatedly tap the down-arrow key while watching the Line, and before/after paragraph settings. If you encounter an unexpected setting in these fields, that may also explain the gap in your document.
Lastly, look at your Layout Inspector, and ensure that the Layout margins at the bottom are all 0, and in the Document Inspector, that there are no surprises in there regarding margin settings.
Thank you for your assistance. I did have the prevent widow and orphan lines checked and have unchecked it. that resulted in my header moving to the prior page, but I suspect that the "table" , my listing of past employment, is too large to fit in the bottom 4 inches of the first page. How can I split that table into two parts, the second remaining at the top of the second page?
In Pages v5.6.1, select your table, and in the Format panel, click the Arrange tab. Select the Move with Text tab, and then set Text Wrap to Inline with Text. The table will descend to the bottom of the page, and resume on the next page. This is the only Object Placement and Text Wrap setting that will allow a table to split across pages.
The word "Format" is in two places, one being on a horizontal menu bar atop the whole screen, between insert and arrange. the other is in the right upper corner of my document, just to the left of "document". I am guessing that you want me to go to the second, though of course I have explored both. I cannot find an Arrange tab under either, but I did find a Move with Text tab once, but cannot find it again. The Text Wrap was already set to Inline with Text. Currently, the table is stuck at the top of the second page, leaving the bottom of the first page empty.
I am under the impression that a table is selected when it has a thin blue line around it, and not the green background over the entire table. I just now was able to find the Arrange tab again in the right upper corner under the second format. Inline with Text remains selected. Still, what next
In Pages v5.6.1, you will not have an Arrange tab on that Format : Text panel to the right of your document — until you click on the table. This is what a selected table looks like in Pages v5.6.1. If there is no panel to the right, then click the Format text button on the Toolbar next to Documents.
I am unable to get that grid, as I did days ago when I first contacted you. Instead, I only get the thin blue line surrounding the entire table, or I get the green background covering it all. The blue line gets much thicker when the green is present.
Perhaps it is not longer a table but rather some other special kind of entity? Oddly, I am unable to edit it!?!?!?
blank space between header and table
