I received an e-mail form Kathryn asking why people were not able to open attachments to her e-mails. After I asked her  A bit more about what was going on, I concluded she was sending .pages documents to people who were either on mac without pages or worse on a windows computer(poor people). What Isuggested to here was to either save the Pages file as a .pdf or save a Word Document Copy.

If you are not sure how to save …

If you ever need to create a template for a document in Apples Pages, here is how to make a custom one in 4 easy steps.

Open up pages and select the blank document option from the template chooser, now click the choose button in the bottom right of the window. This will load a blank document.
Go crazy, you can use all of your creative talent to make your template, remember to add enough text and photo boxes. You should also …

From MacOSXHints…

This is a pretty simple hint, but if you’re like me, and have a number of templates that you’ve created in Pages, you probably wish they were organized in the Template Chooser, rather than being all displayed together in the My Templates section.

You can create your own sub-grouping under My Templates by navigating to your user’s Library » Application Support » iWork » Pages » Templates folder. Here you will see one folder (My Templates) which contains any templates …

iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, is proud to announce Keynote Themes 2.0 to be used with Apple’s Keynote presentation software. iPresentee presents ten new astonishing Keynote themes: Autumn Colors, Starfish, Orange Bubble, Green Mile, Wallpaper, Time Graffiti, Brown Light, Eyesight, Built on Sand and Grey Line.

I have begun using Pages more and more lately to make some really nice documents. So far there has only been one thing that really ticks me off about pages. When I type in an e-mail address or a Website I automatically turns it into a hyperlink.

Apples Business division has posted a 30 minute or so seminar about how to use the iWork products in an office environment. You will have to register for the seminar prior to viewing it but its well worth giving them you e-mail address for.

Check out the seminar here.

You may have noticed that there’s no intuitive way to add your own text placeholder to a master slide in Keynote ’08. In other words, if you want to make a set of slides that has more than just a title and body you can either (1) add a text box on every page or (2) try to add a text placeholder to Keynote. The second option isn’t so intuitive, but here’s how to do it:

Start in Pages with four blank pages in the Page Layout section.

The first document page will be your cover, or front, and the second document page will be the back of the card. After these are finished to your satisfaction, you will need to flip the pictures and text boxes both vertically and horizontally. When the sheet is folded, they will be right side up with the top at the fold. Be sure you have the text below or above …

Over at A New Mac Tip Every Day they have got a real useful tip about pages.Being really used to Microsoft Word, the first thing that really annoyed me about Pages is that when you resize the window, it doesn’t adjust the zoom accordingly. I just feel like there is absolutely no point in resizing a window to gain nothing, and that is what you get if you don’t readjust the zoom afterwards…. I just like widening the window and that it automatically zooms in. It is possible in Pages, but it is not on by default.

In Keynote, make sure you’re in either Navigator or Light Table view (using the View menu); this trick won’t work in Outline or Slide Only view.Switch to the Finder, and select all the images you’d like to use to create your slides…. Keynote will then import your images—you may see a progress dialog, depending on the quantity and size of the selected images—and place each one into its own slide.By default, the images will be placed in front of any fields (title, subtitle, bullets) on the slides, so you’ll need to select each image and send it to the back to use the fields…. To do that, create a new slide, set its master to blank, and then drag in your source images.Not a huge hint, but if you’ve ever labored with importing images, or dragging them into already-created slides one-by-one, this method is a great timesaver.