iWork '09: The Missing Manual

Opening an Existing Document

After this flurry of creating and saving new documents, you’ve now got a tidy collection of Pages files on your hard drive. When you’re ready to get at ‘em again, follow any of these steps to open a file:

• In the Finder, double-click the Pages document, or drag it onto the Pages application icon.

• In Pages, choose File → Open, or press ⌘-O. Pages shows you the Open dialog box (Figure 1-17), which lets you browse your files and select the one you want to open.

• In the Template Chooser, click the Open an Existing File button, and Pages shows you the Open dialog box.

• If you’re looking for the document you were working with 10 minutes ago, choose it from the File → Open Recent submenu (Figure 1-18), which gives you fast access to files you’ve whipped up lately. You can also choose the same options from the Template Chooser’s Open Recent pop-up menu.

Figure 1-17. The Open dialog box lets you browse your computer, iDisk, or any other computer on your network to find your file. Use the search box at the top right to hunt down the file if you’ve forgotten exactly where you stashed it, or use the pop-up menu at top center to jump to folders you’ve visited recently. Select the file that you want to open and then click the Open button.

Figure 1-18. The Open Recent submenu contains ...