I am trying to fine tune a translated document so I need both language versions on the screen at the same time. Isn't there a way to do this on Pages?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
I am a bit confused. Are you running Pages in full screen mode? Just get out of it and you can have as many different pages docs in their respective windows on your screen arranged in any way you like.
Or am I missing something here?
---markus---
Why not open the 2 documents in 2 separate windows side by side?
Peter
Pages will allow you to have two tabs and respective documents in them, but will not split the screen so that you can see both documents concurrently.
Markus, I know how to do what you say. But since I do like to have Pages in full screen with tabbed docs, I’d like to be able to select two or even three of those tabbed docs, if screen size allows, and split the screen between the selected documents. Pages is not able to do that yet, I just found out. It would be a nice feature to have.
You can hide it and call it only when needed. You can also zoom to fit width to maximize screen real estate. Anyway, if we all send a feedback about a feature, eventually it will be implemented
Can you share how you did it? What I would like to do is to split screen two .pages docs that are in two different tabs in the same Pages app window. I guess I could have separate windows for each doc and then split screen, as it was suggested here by Tom Gewecke. I should not have any problem with that. But it seems to me a less elegant solution than being able to split screen two tabbed documents in the same Pages app window. I have an iMac 27" screen and lots of real estate screen to use. It'd be nice to be able to evenly divide the screen between three documents, if needed. Thanks.
That's what I am doing right now. But especially now that you can use tabs in Pages, it'd be helpful to be able to select two or even three - with a large screen - documents among the ones you have tabbed and split the screen between them. You may be working on a set of documents at the same time, and you may want to tab them all. But then at some point you may need to work in particular with two of them, and here the ability to split screen inside a single Pages window with multiple tabbed document would be very handy.
There are a lot of things that would be a good idea, but Apple is not doing.
The massive and mostly empty sidebar on the side of every document gets in the way and chews up a lot of screen real estate especially on a laptop.
Peter
I know that but since it is essential for just about everything you do, hiding and revealing it is a total pain. Pages sensibly had a small tabbed inspector which could be tucked in any free space, in my case a second palette monitor, and the tabs could be separated. Crazy stuff, merely tested to work for 30 years and didn't eat up the tiny screens on laptops, that Apple presumes we all use.
There is nothing worse for productivity and accuracy to having your view of your work semi-visible, obstructed or interrupted regularly.
...and as to the later, I call B.S. Apple does what it wants to do irregardless of what we think or say. Once Apple decides, it is almost impossible to change it's mind, no matter how carefully detailed or reasoned the explanations. It doesn't listen it tells you how you have got it wrong. If you persist in your stupidity, it will simply stop talking to you, and that folks is how it learns very little.
I have always found it enormously ironic that Apple portrayed itself as the girl with the sledge hammer in the original Mac launch advertisement, when in reality it is the shadowy leader up on the big screen, communicating only in dogmatic, cryptic and ludicrously self-contradictory revelations to its humble followers gathered below.
Speaking of which the humble masses are being gathered as we speak.
Peter
PS A constant reminder to me is the abominable Spill Chucker that I am constantly fighting as I type, that works overtime to convert my accurate text into Apple gibberish.
Are you talking about having two docs on the screen at once? Or facing pages of one doc? Or two columns on one page?
Sorry I was not clear. I have two pages docs, one in Spanish and one in English. I am checking the accuracy of the translation so I need to view and edit both docs at the same time.
Here is another reply I found earlier that did not wok: Why can I not get two pages files in split view
You did not say what version of Pages.
No version of Pages can show a split view but Pages '09 can show two pages side by side.
Pages 5.6.2 you are out of luck, as for most things.
Peter
I have no problem doing this using the green button with the two arrows inside. Does yours have that?
You can have two Pages documents open simultaneously, and positioned adjacently. They must be in different folder locations, if they bear the same document name.
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