Learn Layout Possibilities

Whether on a Mac, in iOS, or in a browser, “Pages” is what the app is called, and, at the most basic level, pages are exactly what the app produces. The trick is controlling how those pages look, and that’s the craft of layout: setting the size and shape of a document’s pages, and specifying where text and other objects go on those pages. You have a lot of tools to help you with those tasks.

Some document-related settings, such as page size and margins, apply to every page in a Pages document, but other document settings, such as page numbering, need not. Instead, you can vary these settings within a document by dividing the document into sections: each section can number its pages differently from other sections (or ...

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