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 …

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.

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.