April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
40h
English
Content preview from iWork '09: The Missing Manual
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Your First Word-Processing Document
Uh-oh, you’ve got an inventory problem at the warehouse, and an urgent order for one of your best customers is going to be late. Time to dash off an apologetic letter to break the bad news and smooth things over. At least Pages will help you to do it in style.
Launch Pages, and choose your template: From the Template Chooser, click the Letters category under Word Processing, and select your preferred template in the right pane. For this example, choose Modern Letter. Pages fills your new document window with the template design, including a few paragraphs of dummy text, ready to be replaced with your own mellifluous prose, as shown in Figure 1-3.
Figure 1-3. When you open a new document from a template, Pages fills out the whole layout for you, using temporary placeholder text filled with inscrutable “lorem ipsum” pseudo-Latin (see Immovable Objects: Locked, Background, and Master Objects for the ipso facto of “lorem ipsum”). Pages lets you know that you’re working with a word-processing document by slapping a “(Word Processing)” label on the top of the window.
Integration with Address Book
Pages is even smart enough to go ahead and address the letter from you. This info comes straight from your Mac’s Address Book program, where Pages looks up your contact info and plucks out your work address—assuming you’ve entered it. (Some of the other letter templates ...
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