I am typing a Lease Agreement and I would like to have each line numbered, but not as a list, because I have lists in the contract, but as a legal document so each line can be referred to when speaking or writing about the contract. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.
MacBook Pro
Barry,
Here is an example using double-spaced, 12-pt Courier New in the text box, and body text of an example brief. I don't have MS Word to further determine compatibility of the export content. It is also apparent that content that appears on certain line numbers in Pages, may shift to different locations as the exported Word document is opened in LibreOffice v5.3.3, or MS Word — with their different layout engines.
In LibreOffice, one can hide the outline of the text box (even with border lines off) by unchecking the View menu : Text Boundaries menu item.
Your text box solution would not be appropriate where line numbers are continuous across page boundaries.
Pages v5.6.2 (OS X 10.11.6)
LibreOffice v5.3.3 (as Word .docx exported from above)
In fact, you can export your Pages content as Word .docx, open that in LibreOffice, and then from the Tools menu : Line Numbering... , and number lines with options. Think of it as post processing for Pages, and then it can be further saved as a Word, or PDF document — depending on the recipient requirement.
It's easy. Jut put text box on the left and click "move object to section master" in arrange menu.
That works, provided the text in the document is the same font and size as the text in the box.
Regards,
Barry
Hi Nasncy,
I am typing a Lease Agreement and I would like to have each line numbered, but not as a list, because I have lists in the contract, but as a legal document so each line can be referred to when speaking or writing about the contract. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.
Just looking through this discussion with the excellent Text Box idea by bjh333, one question: do the line numbers start at 1 on each page? If so, your client could refer to 'Page 3, Line 4'.
Regards,
Ian.
Rather than laboriously type the sequential numbers in the Text box, one can launch the Terminal application (Launchpad : Other : Terminal) and specify the following on the command-line.
# make a sequence of 24 numbers and copy to the clipboard. Type only the blue text.
# The choice of 24 is 12-pt, double-spaced Courier New text, and Letter. Adjust accordingly.
$ seq 24 | pbcopy
Back in the Pages Text box to receive the numbers, set the line spacing, font attributes, and justification (probably right-justified for numbers), and then simply choose paste.
"Your text box solution would not be appropriate where line numbers are continuous across page boundaries."
Not "my" solution. It was offered by bjh333
The extension to multi-page docs could be accomplished with a separate box for each page.
Generating the number list can be done in Numbers by those hesitant to open and use Terminal. If the number of line on a page is known, the Numbers table could be set up to contain the list of numbers for a page in a single column, with as many columns as needed for the maximum number of pages expected to be needed.
Copied from Numbers, the paste into a text box would be via Edit > Paste and Match Style (after setting line spacing, font attributes, and justification).
Regards,
Barry
It's easy. Jut put text box on the left and click "move object to section master" in arrange menu.
No version of Pages is a Word clone, and has no provision for paragraph and sentence numbering. You can find this feature in the free LibreOffice, or Word itself.
How do I add numbering lines such as in legal documents in Pages?
