iWork® '09 For Dummies®

Chapter 5. Getting to Know Pages

In This Chapter

• Working with Pages templates

• Setting Pages preferences

• Saving and printing documents

• Creating your own templates

For each of the three iWork applications, you'll find that the basic tools described in Part I come into play. For example, although tables and charts in Numbers spreadsheets can be more complex than tables and charts in Pages and Keynote, the basics are the same.

Pages is the word processing application (and, in fact, it's two word processing applications). This chapter and the others in Part II provide an introduction to the features, tools, and technologies you find in Pages.

Note

The basics of Mac OS X as well as of iWork apply to each iWork application, including Pages. For example, there's nothing special about printing with Pages: It's the way you print in any Mac OS X application. But before you relax completely, keep an eye out for printing in Numbers (see Chapter 16). Some Numbers-specific features reflect the fact that Numbers deals with spread-sheets that can be much, much larger than individual pages.

Two Faces of Pages Documents

Pages lets you work with two different types of documents: word processing documents and page layout documents.

Word processing documents

A word processing document in Pages (as in any word processing program) lets you type what you want without worrying about page breaks and line breaks. If you type a sentence that is longer than the page is wide, Pages automatically breaks the sentence where ...