Take Control of Pages, 3rd Edition

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For some of us, few things are more liberating than the blank page of a brand-new document, which promises total freedom for creating whatever we like. For others, nothing can be more intimidating than that same blank page: all that emptiness, demanding that we fill it with something. That’s why Pages provides us with document templates: so we can, if we like, get a running start on the creative process.

As you have seen, every time you Create a New Document with Pages, you start by choosing a document template, even if that template is a blank one. But you needn’t choose a blank one: Pages offers dozens of templates in its Template Chooser, suitable for a variety of writing tasks, and, if none of them meets your needs, you can ...