I can format greeting card from Pages template with image, but cannot see how to add text. Help?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)
There are several "Greeting Card" templates in Pages' Template Chooser. All of them contain similar elements.
This is a document created by the Photo Greeting Card template in Pages 5.6.2. I've set the Zoom button (left end of tool bar) to 50% to get both pages of the document into the document window, then placed the mouse pointer near the upper right corner of the page, pressed the mouse button, and dragged a selection rectangle to contain or touch all of the elements and make their borders and handles visible.
Top Left: A text box, containing instructions. The instructions say to remove this box before printing, but you can replace the text in it and move it elsewhere on the card if desired. Th box is currently on the outside back of the card.
Top right:
The tilted photo is a placeholder. Paste a photo of you choice here to replace the one shown. Your photo will scale to fit the box, which is a mask, and hides the parts of the photo that will not fit. The handles let you resize and or reshape the rectangle.
The coloured rectangles behind the photo are shapes, filled with the colours shown. I notice my selection missed the reddish shape, so it is not selected, and no handles show. Use the Format inspector (click the Format brush, upper right) to change the colours to suit your needs.
The white "You're Invited" text is in a text box. You can replace that with your own text by Clicking twice in the box—once to select the box, the second to place the insertion point in the box and select the text. Enter your own text, which will immediately replace the existing text in that box.
Second page
This is the inside of the card.
Left side: This is empty, as is usual for greeting cards. If you want to place text here, yo could either drag the 'instructions' box down from page 1, or click the Text button above the document to insert a new text box, drag that box into position, and enter your text.
Right side:
There are two text boxes here, separated by a shape (line). Both text boxes contain styled placeholder text. Click on the box, click on the text, type to replace the placeholder with your own text using the Style defined in the placeholder.
Both boxes may be resized and reshaped as required.
Regards,
Barry
thank you...do note I said it was 2 cards in message before Ian and earlier. This info on how to add a second page is helpful. Thank you,That is what I needed...sorry if did not communicate in a way that was meaningful to you.
I humbly apologise. You are right. Just looked in the templates.
I took my cue from Barry's first sample and from what you later said.
If you are using an Avery card stock that possibly may not fit it. Check
After all that it appears that your problem was not the Textbox but how to create a second page.
Peter
Hi Heath,
As I stated in my first reply (and Peter confirmed later):
"Second page
This is the inside of the card."
Regards,
Barry
How many times can you be shown?
...and still not get it?
Is this Candid Camera?
Peter
OK, done....if you need to feel superior, hope that helped.
This is most definitely a Pages card
Hi Heath,
The best thing about banging your head against a brick wall (which I think all three of us have been doing here) is that it feels really good when you stop. Maybe this will do it. Bear with me for one more go.
Pages creates two types of documents: Word processing documents, and Page Layout documents.
Word processing documents contain a Document Body, the place where the main text stream goes, and runs in one continuous stream from the top of the document to its end.
Page Layout documents do not have a Document Body. Everything placd in a Page Layout document is put there as an object, or is placed there in an object.
The Card templates create Page Layout documents.
To place text into a Page Layout document, you need to enter it into a container—either a text box, or a shape.
The card template shown in my initial reply (and displayed again in Peter's post directly above this one) contains four text boxes.
Two of these are on Page 1, the outside back and front of the card. The other two are Page 2, both on the inside right page of the card.
The text in any of these boxes may be (and is intended to be) replaced by the user (you). Each of the four contain 'placeholder text'. Click once in the text and all of the text in the box is selected. Type, and what you type (even a single letter) replaces all of the placeholder text in that box. If you enter more text than the box has room for, you'll see a small x in a box at the bottom centre of the box. You can resize the box by dragging one of the handles at its corners and at the midpoint of each of its sides.
If you want to place text on the inside left page (left side of Page 2) you'll need to place a box there. There are several ways to do that:
With the box in place, select and delete the existing content, and start typing.
Regards,
Barry
PS: Reread your post after writing this, and had a further thought: Assuming you have and recognize a text box located where you want it, a text box that could be moved into the place where you want the text, or a text box that could be duplicated to be moved into that location, there is a possibiity that hasn't been touched on:
When you click on the text box, what handles do you see at the corners? Are they small white squares, or are they small blue x marks? If squares, there should be no issue with these instructions. If they are x marks, it means the object is Locked, and must be Unlocked to enable moving it or editing its contents. Select the object, go Arrange (menu) > Unlock, then carry on.
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