Q: Stay on Page/Move with text/Pull out my hair
Dear Friends,
I have asked this question before and yet am still having terrible difficulties with my graphs flying around the text document when I add further text. I am not able to find the archives with answers that people have written to me.
I need to write a series of lab reports and have used a terrible amount of time trying to put the images back into place. I am not getting a running flow of text. Even within the sections I created, some of the images have floated back up to the top of the section and are sitting there tight. I am not able to move them.
Here is an example of a problem: I have inserted a scatter plot and written my figure text. I click the tab "Move with Text." The Text wrap tab spontaneously chooses "Inline with text." My plot is moved to the left hand column - but I don't want it there. I need to add a small annotation. I am not able to merge the plot to the center as the "Inline with text" function does not allow this.
Basically, I try and change all the figures and plots to "Move with Text," but they tend to change back to "Stay on Page" when I look away.
I am now wondering if I shouldn't open a new document in Page Layout? This way I can add all my figures for the Results section in place holders. But can I merge "Text Layout" with "Page Layout" sections?
I really don't want to go back to Microsoft Word! I would love to become proficient with Pages - and of course learn my lab material!
Pages 5.6.2
OS X El Capitan
MacBook Air
Thanks for your attention.
Jonelle
Today I opened my document to
iPod touch, iOS 5.0.1
Posted on Sep 9, 2016 3:33 PM
Jonelle,
Stay away from Migration Assistant.
There were two ways to acquire Pages '09 when it was available from Apple:
- Retail iWork '09 DVD
- OS X App Store as an individual purchase.
If you installed it on your older Mac from the DVD, then you will need to install it again from the DVD on your current Mac. Then update it with the Apple iWork 9.3 updater to get Pages '09 v4.3, the last update. You must reinstall, because unlike the App Store purchase, the DVD installs library dependencies into System locations. Never run the above updater on an App Store sourced version of Pages '09 — it will destroy it.
If you installed Pages '09 from the OS X App Store, then it can simply be put on a USB stick, and transferred to the Applications/iWork '09 folder (you create this) location. Single-click on the Pages '09 application, and then press option+command+i to see its version information.
If it is not v4.3, and the older Mac is running OS X 10.7.4 through OS X 10.8.5, then there is a possibility that the App Store may still update it to v4.3. You sign into the App Store with the same Apple ID that you purchased Pages '09, and then press the option key when clicking Purchases. This should provide you with a Download button for Pages. The download will dialog you with a warning that you will need a newer version of OS X (it thinks you want v5.6.2), but it may also just ask if you want to update Pages '09. If you get that far, agree and you will have Pages '09 v4.3. Apple may have discontinued this helpful update for Pages '09 to v4.3.
Regardless of the type of Pages '09 installation, you will want its template folder, and your auto-correction symbol and text substitution mappings, along with the Pages preferences list file.
- Pages '09 Templates folder
- ~/Library/Application Support
- copy the iWork folder to the USB stick
- Drag/drop the iWork folder from the USB stick into the bolded location on your new Mac.
- ~/Library/Application Support
- Pages '09 Auto-Correction symbol and text substitution, and general preference list
- ~/Library/Preferences
- copy com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist to the USB stick
- Drag/drop this preference list into the same location on your new Mac.
- ~/Library/Preferences
To get to the above bolded filesystem locations, just press shift+command+g in the Finder, and copy/paste the bold text into the dialog.
Posted on Sep 10, 2016 8:58 AM
