My Pages® (for Mac)

5. Document Formatting and Organization

In this chapter, you’ll learn about different ways to set up your document, including:

• Setting your document’s page size

• Modifying document margins

• Using page thumbnails

• Using outline mode

• Using text columns

• Preventing orphan lines

Besides the words and paragraphs in your document, the document itself has some properties you need to think about. How big is the page? What are the margins? And so on.

Let’s take a look at setting these properties as well as using page thumbnails and outline mode to help organize your document.

Setting Your Document’s Page Size

Most word processing documents are ...