Is there a way to break up sections?

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Pages 5.6.2—Word processing document:

WP documents start with a single section. Text flows from one page to the next, and pages are generated or dropped depending on whether there is text on them.

You can make a new section at any point by placing the insertion point where you want the new section to begin and choosing Insert Section Break from the Insert menu. The new Section will start on a new page (or a new right (recto) page, depending on your choice in the Document Inspector's Section tab.

Sections can be moved; individual pages cannot, unless they are also individual sections.

Example:

Random text, with a section break at the end of the text on each page. I've bolded the text in one paragraph on each full page, and changed the font colour to red or green to enhance keeping track of its position in the sidebar.

Original position, after inserting a Section Break after the last full paragraph on pages 1, 2 and 3. Page 4 was by choosing Section from the Insert menu. It contains no text. Each page, when it's thumbnail is selected in the sidebar shiws a yellow section boundary around only that page.

In the second image, I've grabbed the Page 3 thumbnail, using the mouse, and dragged it upward. Pages 1 and 2 separated, and I dropped Page three between them.

Note that the pages are automatically renumbered by Pages. Had I included a header or footer on the pages, and inserted the Page number, the new numbers would now be displayed in that header or footer.

At the bottom of the image you can see the Section break ending the section holding Page 1.

In the third image, I've dragged the empty page 4 thumbnail to the top of the list, where it becomes Page 1. Then I added a page and a half of new text to it, forcing creation of a second page in that Section.

Note that with the new Page 1 selected, the yellow section border encloses both Page 1 and Page 2.

In Pages page layout documents, each page is a single section. There is no Document Body (the place where 'regular' text goes in a word processing document). The pages contain only objects, and any text seen on the page is in an object, either a Text box, or a Shape. Pages can be moved without having to insert a section break, as the pages are already also sections.

Regards,

Barry

You were not paying attention.

The pages of a Section stick together so you do not unintentionally tie them into knots by shuffling them.

To move pages individually you need make them their own Sections or move the Content on them.

Peter

"But what i wanted to do was to break an existing section, because i want to rearrange the pages within the section."

Except for the last three or four lines, that's pretty much exactly what I described how to do in my post above.

Insert Section breaks before and at the end of the page you want to move to isolate it in a section of its own. Move the page.

The alternate method, as Peter pointed out, is to move the content of the page. Select the content, Cut it to the Clipboard (Edit > Cut, or command-X), place the insertion point where you want that content to be. Paste. If the page contained both text (in the text layer/document body, not in a text box) and objects, you will need to move them separately, and rebuild the page in its new location.

Regards,

Barry

Peter, I appreciate the information you’ve been providing re:Sections. My question is probably as clear as the nose on my face, but I’m stumped!

I have Mac OS Pages 6.3.1 and I can’t figure out how to delete Sections; especially those imbedded in the Mac OS templates.

I’m nearly 70 and have been a Mac owner/User since mid 1985! I’m also hard of hearing, so if you need to RAISE YOUR VOICE I’ll understand!

Thanks in advance for patience and wisdom!

Whit Patrick

Oregon (some of the time) USA

Plural?

They have to be deleted one at a time.

You can delete the Section Breaks between to join them, if you want to do more than one at a time.

Your original question was actually "Is there a way to break up sections?" which would be to Insert Section Breaks in the text, but Barry has already covered that I thought.

Then your last question was "…how to delete Sections?"

Peter

Hi Whit,

"Remember that my question is how do I select and delete unneeded sections."

Actually, your initial question was

Is there a way to break up sections?

And you expanded it with these details:

I want to be able to re-order the pages, but I can't figure out how to break up these sections…. I basically want to be able to easily move pages around and take certain pages out of sections"

Between my posts and Peter's, that question has been pretty fully answered. Please re-read the full thread, then, if part of the answer is missing, identify and ask about the missing part.

Regards,

Barry

Breaking up Sections was asked by another User. My only question is how do I select and delete sections. I don’t want to break them up, I want to get rid of them.

Thanks!

Whit - the Old Guy

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Whit

It is best you ask your own question than jump in on another, but how have we not answered your question?

You open the thumbnails, click on the section you want to get rid of, hit delete and confirm that you want to do it.

Same as deleting almost anything else.

Is there something else that you haven't told us or we haven't addressed?

Peter

Peter,

My apologies. I thought the two issues were close enough to combine them. Yes, my question is answered.

Back in the old days we encouraged mixing questions, because most of us weren’t smart enough to ask the right questions.

Thank You!

Whit

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We don't mind additional comments Whit, but it can lead to confusion as it has here and the Question is how people find answers.

Also some people log on under different aliases from different devices and if they continue in the same vein we assume it is still them.

Peter

IS THIS LOUD ENOUGH? CAN YOU HEAR ME?

Menu > View > Show Page Thumbnails > click on the thumbnails you want to delete > hit the delete key

Peter

If your graphics are sensibly laid out as inline objects you can cut all the content, Text and Objects, together and repaste them where you want.

Peter

Hilarious!!

Remember that my question is how do I select and delete unneeded sections.

SEXyuns!!

Whit

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