How to put line above the footer box?
In Microsoft Word, this was very intuitive.
But for Page, even an engineer has a hard time figuring it out.... 😟
Anyone?
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As an engineer, I expected you to be more explicit regarding the version of Pages, and OS X that you are presently running. 😉 Because not specifying these means that one must guess between multiple Pages applications and their behavior, I am going to offer a current solution for Pages v5.6.1.
It is possible to place a line above your document footer, but it is not automated.
- From the Pages View menu, select Show Layout. Now, you have a fixed footer visible.
- Click on the Shapes Toolbar item, and pick the ordinary line segment.
- It will drop into your document foreground selected. The right-hand Format panel will now show Style and Arrange tabs. Click the latter, and set Text Wrap to None.
- You can click on each end of the line segment and rotate it to 0°, or use the Rotate dial in the Arrange tab. You can also direct enter the 0° in the Angle box.
- Position above, and stretch your line segment to the width of your footer, and from the Style tab, set the line segment thickness and color to taste.
- With the line segment selected, visit the Arrange menu : Section Masters : Move Object to Section Master.
This line above your footer will now appear on every page of your current section. It is a background object, and is not editable, unless you select the Arrange menu : Section Masters : Make Master Objects Selectable.