Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let me show you how to use Mac Pages in 5 minutes.
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So Pages is Apple's own word processor. If you don't already have it on your Mac
you can get it for Free from the Mac App Store. When you first run Pages you may
see an open file dialogue like this. If you do click New Document or you may just start
right here with Choose A Template. There are a variety of different templates for
different purposes. Some may fit your needs and you could just start with those. We're
going to start with a blank one right here and create a brand new document.
Note that Pages has two modes. Word Processing Mode and Page Layout Mode. We're going to stick
with Work Processing Mode for this tutorial. So with a blank document let's start off by typing
a Title. We're going to change the style by going to the right sidebar. If you don't see the right
sidebar you can click on this format button here. It will come up with the blinking cursor in that
first line. Change the Style to something like Heading. Now we're going to press Return to go
to the next line. Pages is smart enough to know to change the style to Body Text as
you probably don't want two Heading lines right after each other. Now let's add some text here.
So now we have our first paragraph of text. Let's select all this and set the font to
exactly what we want. Still under Format, with Style selected here, we can go and change the
Font. Let's change to something like this and make it a little bit bigger. Now we can
see it is still set to Body Text but body with an asterisk. Let's update that with the Update
button. Now that changes the body style to be this exact font. We can do the same thing here
with this Heading. Let's go and change that and make it a little bit bigger, change the font,
and now we'll Update the Heading style. Let's add some more text and another Heading line here. With
the blinking cursor on this line I've change the style to make this Heading so it matches this one.
Now add some more text. One of the advantages of using Styles rather than just selecting text
and changing the font is that if I make a change to say this paragraph here, maybe I'll make it a
little bit bigger, I can Update it and it updates all of the paragraphs that are set to body text.
Let me do the same thing here with Heading. I can make this a little bit bigger. Maybe even change
its color and update Heading and you could see how it does it for everything with that style.
We could also change line spacing and paragraph spacing. So with my cursor in this paragraph I'm
going to go and Format, Style down to Spacing. Increase the line spacing just a bit. Let's add
some spacing after each paragraph. Now I change it for that paragraph updating the body style
will update it for all of them. Let's also change the spacing after the Heading style
right here and Update. You can also change Margins. For that go to the Documents Sidebar
and then under Document you'll see Document Margins. So if I wanted more or less on the
left margin I can change the value right here. I could also add Indent. I'm going to put the
blinking cursor in this paragraph here. I'm going to go to Format and then I'm going to
go to Layout. Here I've got Indent. If it isn't open you can click here and I can change, say,
the first line to indent in a little bit like that. I could also go to View and then Show
Rulers. I'll see the Rulers here and you could see the first line indent and the left side and
right side indent. With this indentation on this paragraph now I could Update Body Text and you
could see it is now true for all body paragraphs. If you ever need to Center something go to Format,
Style. Let's go here to Heading and I can use this button right here to center the
Heading. If I Update it will update for all of the paragraphs using that style.
You can also set Headers and Footers for every page. Go to the top and you'll see three boxes.
This is the Header. I could put something like My Name here and maybe the Document
Title there. If I go to the bottom I'll find three boxes at the bottom here as well. I'll
click there and I'm going to use the Insert Page Number button and just insert a page
number. Now those are going to appear on every page. To force the text to start
on a new page go to where you want that break to occur. Like just before this Heading here,
and choose Insert and either Page Break or Section Break. You can see how that forces
it to the next page here. If you want to add an Image you can use this Media button
here. Use this to select something from your Photos Library or you can just drag and drop a
file right into the document. I can then grab any corner to resize the image and I can just drag it
from the middle to move it around. Notice how the text naturally flows around this image like that.
Under Format, Style, with the image selected, you can now choose a preset style or setup your
own style here using Line and Border options. You can add other elements as well including
Shapes and Tables if you want to format data the right way or have a little mini spreadsheet
in your document. You can have Charts as well. When you're done you could go to File, Print to
send the document to your printer or you can go to File, Export To. Most likely you're looking
to export the document as a PDF. But you can also export as Word Format or ePub Format if you like.
So there are the basics. But there's a lot more to Pages. I
have a ton of tutorials if you want to learn more.