Blank template for Pages?

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Blank template for Pages?

I just started using Pages. I chose the blank template which is what I will be using most of the time for simple letters and documents.

However, the "Blank Template" is not BLANK! There is a text box top and bottom into which it is intended that the page number should be typed. I do not wish to use them. I wish to use the WHOLE PAGE.

Is there anyone who is able to tell me how to delete these text boxes? I have tried everything, read the help pages (rather useless for beginners) and looked through all the menus. Can't find anything. Rang Apple, they can't tell me either.

Please help me if you know.

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Nov 17, 2017 2:21 AM

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Answer 1

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VikingOSX

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Nov 17, 2017 9:38 PM in response to Englishteacher

What you describe are the customary header and footers which are tripartite by design. You have a couple of choices:

Start with the Blank template, and then click Document in the Tool bar, and on that Document panel, deselect Header and Footer.
Do item 1, adjust margins to taste, and save as your custom template.
You can tell Pages in its Preferences to use this custom template when it launches, instead of the Template, or File Chooser.

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Answer 2

Nov 17, 2017 9:39 PM in response to VikingOSX

Thank you. So simple and I was on the phone for about 30 min. only to be told that I have to go into the Apple store to the Pages lesson. Problem is, with my current mobility crisis, that is not an option.

So appreciate what you told me, and it worked.

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Answer 3

Nov 17, 2017 10:17 AM in response to Englishteacher

You rang Apple and they couldn't tell you how to turn off Headers and Footers in Pages?

Wow!

Looks like I have been way too generous of my praise for Apple's devotion to all things Apple.

Peter

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Answer 4

Nov 17, 2017 9:41 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Sorry Peter, did not mean to imply that they did not know, (well the person whom I spoke to didn't), but rather that they do not want to give that information over the phone.

Either way, not good!

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