Deleting Page breaks in Pages 7

I am using page 7 on my Mac Book Pro (10.13.4) and am unable to delete the page breaks from a document I created some time ago. I followed the Help instructions but there is no "invisible" to delete.

Posted on Apr 20, 2018 1:39 PM

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Posted on Apr 21, 2018 2:15 PM

You have not been clear.


Does the page appear in a blue box on its own? or Do several pages appear in the blue Section box?


If Document Body is checked then this document is definitely a WP document.


Page Breaks are not Section Breaks, they are what they say they are. A Page Break pushes the text over to the next page but both pages are still part of the same Section. The same as a Line Break pushes text over to the next line but the text remains part of the same Paragraph.


The hierarchy of breaks is: Letter, Word, Tab, Line, Paragraph, Column, Page, Section, Document.


When you say you followed the Help Instructions you failed to say what you thought those were.


Breaks are part of the text, if they exist you can either backspace or forward delete to get rid of them.


There may in fact not be a break at all it may be a result of settings and formatting, you did not respond to that suggestion nor elaborate exactly what is happening.


Try Menu > View > Show Invisibles and take a screen shot of the document (command shift 4 drag over the area), it is saved to your desktop, and post it here using the camera icon.


Peter

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Apr 21, 2018 2:15 PM in response to Russ Wells

You have not been clear.


Does the page appear in a blue box on its own? or Do several pages appear in the blue Section box?


If Document Body is checked then this document is definitely a WP document.


Page Breaks are not Section Breaks, they are what they say they are. A Page Break pushes the text over to the next page but both pages are still part of the same Section. The same as a Line Break pushes text over to the next line but the text remains part of the same Paragraph.


The hierarchy of breaks is: Letter, Word, Tab, Line, Paragraph, Column, Page, Section, Document.


When you say you followed the Help Instructions you failed to say what you thought those were.


Breaks are part of the text, if they exist you can either backspace or forward delete to get rid of them.


There may in fact not be a break at all it may be a result of settings and formatting, you did not respond to that suggestion nor elaborate exactly what is happening.


Try Menu > View > Show Invisibles and take a screen shot of the document (command shift 4 drag over the area), it is saved to your desktop, and post it here using the camera icon.


Peter

Apr 20, 2018 6:09 PM in response to Russ Wells

Then it sounds like you may have a Layout document, one that has no document body and every page is its own section.


What happens when you click on the Thumbnails? Are they individually outlined in a pale, blue or do you get clusters of pages?


The other alternative from your scketchy description is that there is a formatting issue in your text that you have not been able to resolve, such as a Widows & Orphan setting that causes text to jump to the next page.


Peter

Apr 21, 2018 12:28 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Hi Peter,


Thanks for the response. The thumbnail for the page that the curser is on in the main window appears in a blue box on the thumbnail display. I thought from the "help" menu that if the document body item was checked in the Document section of the formatting window on the right hand side that it was a word processing document. I am far from an expert using Pages so really don't know.


So if this is a Layout document as you suggest and the page breaks are actually section breaks, is there any way to combine the document into one, without page or section breaks? I expect that I can cut and past each page/section into a new document to get this done, but that doesn't seem like a very elegant solution.

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