Different header on left and right pages?

Allen,

go to Layout inspector and choose the "Section" button. At Configuration, mark "Use previous headers & footers".

You probably have to set the mark for every section you inserted.



HTH,
Matthias

Use the available section formatting tools to your advantage. To allow different headers/footers on left vs. right pages within a section, open the Layout inspector and select the Section tab. Check the box that says "Left and right pages different".

You can't have it both ways. Pages can handle your desire to move a page from left side to right side (change it from odd to even, or vice versa) within a given section. But when a page is moved to a different section, it (Pages) would have no way of knowing whether you intended the existing headers to go with it, or for the page to assume new headers. If each page is a new section, there's no way to put two different headers (or footers) into that single page, and have Pages determine which one you intended to display, depending upon the side it ends up on.

It seems to me that you need to decide on your ultimate layout, detemine how many (and which) pages will be in what section, and place your headers/footers accordingly once the page order has been determined.

Hi Allen,

I'm not entirely sure that I understand your problem correctly... My guess is that it comes from having created a lot of different sections in your exiting document(s) that were then designed as a left or a right page. Thus they cannot easily change from one type to the other.

Is it you wish to move entire single or multiple pages (as distinct objects) around in your dokument like in PageMaker or the like...? They do, however create documents in a very different manner.

As others mentioned before it's easy to have "right/left" pages in a Pages document via the Layout inspector (if that is what it's called in English - I use the German version) and you can change that option for every section you created.
Now - could things be easier for you, if you deleted all or some of the "new section" marks (or whatever they may be called in English)? Thus when your text changes - gets longer or shorter - the right/left pages are adapted automatically.

In the layout inspector there is also an option that allows you to use the same headers and footers in the new section as in the one before - could that do the trick for you?

Hi dete,

In the layout inspector there is also an option that
allows you to use the same headers and footers
in the new section as in the one before
- could that do the trick for you?

that's basically what I suggested in my first posting. I also wrote that this probably has to be done for every section, except when Allen follows your suggestion to delete all unnecessary section breaks.

Hi Matthias,

that's basically what I suggested in my first
posting. I also wrote that this probably has to be
done for every section, except when Allen follows
your suggestion to delete all unnecessary section
breaks.

You are right, of course! Seems, I had forgotten that when I got to the end of that thread and to the end of my reply (Alzheimer läßt grüßen 😉

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