Take Control of Pages, 4th Edition

Organize Your Work

Short documents don’t need many organizational cues—it’s hard for someone to get lost in, say, an informal letter or a yard-sale flyer. But when a document grows beyond a page or two, organizational assistance becomes more important to both you and your readers.

In this chapter, I describe three different Pages features that can make your documents models of organizational coherence:

• Use Sections provides an in-depth look at how to break your document up into separate sections and why you might want to do so, and it describes the options you have when you do.

• Use Lists (and List Styles) delves into how to make and manage hierarchical lists for producing outlines and taking notes, and for numbering headings and sub-headings ...