Amaya Toman Apple's native apps also include the iWork office suite, which includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote. We will also cover the individual components of the iWork package in our series on native applications - first of all, we will introduce you to the basics of using the Pages application, which is used to create and edit text documents. In today's part, we will discuss the absolute basics, in the next installments we will go deeper.
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Document creation and application interface
After starting the Pages application, in most cases a window will open with options for choosing a template. You can either double-click to select one of the templates, or select an empty template. Pages are automatically added to the document as you type. If you're working in a page-by-page document, click the page you want to add a new page after, then edit in the toolbar at the top of the Text window in Pages on Mac by first selecting it, then selecting it in the toolbar on the right side of the window application, click on Format at the top.
If you're working with a template or document that contains mockup text, first click on the mockup and enter your own text. In the bar at the top of the application window, you can find additional tools - here you can add bullets, tables, graphs, text boxes, shapes, comments or media files. If you want to replace the image mockup in the document, click on the icon in its lower left corner. The second option is to drag your own image onto the mockup, for example from the Mac desktop. After you add text, a media file, a table, or other content to a document, you can make further edits. Just mark the selected content, click on Format in the upper part of the panel on the right and start editing. There is a panel on the left side of the application window where you can display thumbnails of your document pages or an overview of the content. You can customize the display settings in the left panel by clicking the Display icon in the upper left corner of the application window. Here you can also set the display of the ruler, comments, notes and other elements.
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Working in Pages is usually really simple and intuitive, and users can get by with the very basics in most cases. In today's part of our series, we introduced you to the application interface and basic writing, in the next parts we will focus on more advanced editing, working with templates and other topics.
