In a way, linked boxes are a way of restoring the “usual” behavior of word-processed text in a Page Layout-style document, while keeping all the other advantages.
You know how if, in a regular word-processor document, you add a paragraph at the beginning, all the text below it moves down to make space? Text in linked boxes behaves like that, only the excess text is pushed into the next box instead of just down the page.
Any text you add to one will flow into the others, like water through a pipe. You can link many text boxes together so they act as one. Text stays exactly where you put it, so you don’t need to go through the entire report or book, adding blank lines to adjust spacing on everything after you resize a single photo near the beginning.īut there’s one trick you need to know about text boxes that makes them super-powerful. Text boxes are a fantastic way to manage text in a document. Only the page you’re editing will be affected by your changes. The Master Page template will remain unaffected. You can then type in your new text, replace the photo, and edit any shapes or diagrams you included. Now, whenever you click the + button to add a new page, it will generate a copy of this Master Page. After you create a template, all the rest of the pages can look this good automatically. The beauty of Master Pages is that you only have to make this effort once.
Screenshot: Cult of MacĪs you arrange the images and text boxes, smart guides will flash up on the screen to help you line things up. I used a different text style to differentiate this from the regular body text. We even have a how-to for adding Image Galleries to a Pages document.įinally, I added a pull-quote box, into which I can drop a snippet of text to make each page of my report look better. Other objects can be added to a Master Page - objects, image galleries and so on. You can also pick an image using the image button in the toolbar. You can also add styles to the picture, just like you did with the text: You can add drop shadows and frames, for instance. Just drag a picture onto the page, drop it, then rearrange it to the right spot and/or size. Just make sure you have the text box selected, or these panels will show up empty. As you can see in the screenshots above, Pages offers special panels for formatting the text style and layout. I also set my text style to Helvetica 12 point, and set the box to show text in two columns. I set mine to take up roughly half the screen.
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