Get Oriented

Like any modern word processing app, Pages gives you a what-you-see-is-what-you-get view of the documents you produce, but the documents are not the only thing you see when you use Pages: there’s a lot of stuff surrounding your document, and that stuff can include sidebars, panels, rulers, and other on-screen thingies that you manipulate or consult as you create and edit your documents.

Apple designed all that surrounding stuff (which we call its user interface) to match the capabilities of the environments in which Pages runs, of which there are currently four: Macs, iPads, iPhones, and web browsers. This design choice makes the Pages app look like very different apps depending on where you see it. Fortunately, these variations ...

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