Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let's look at Basic Layout using Pages.
So I'm using Pages version 5.
We're going to look at doing some basic layout.
Now in Pages you always start off with a word processing document.
That means there is a large text area in the middle of the screen.
We can see that by going to View/Show layout which is something you want to have turned
on anyway if you are going to do layout.
You can see this large text box here.
Now if you are doing page layout, like say you want to make a flyer or a newsletter or
something, then you are not going to want this large box here meant for word processing.
So the way to get to it is in your right sidebar here you are probably looking at format or
perhaps you even have it turned off.
Either way you want to go to Setup.
In Setup you want to go to Document.
Then you want want to turn off Document Body.
It is going to warn you and then once you say okay you want to remove it then that is
gone.
You still have the header and the footer but you now have this blank space that now you
can add things to.
So now you can begin adding elements.
Probably one of the main things you want to add are text elements.
These are just different styles of text boxes.
Using the basic one is the best bet for most reasons and you can just put it there.
You can adjust it by dragging the dots on each side.
Go to Format and you can see you can switch to any of those different text styles and
you can add your own.
So as you make adjustments you can hit this plus button here and add a new style there
that you can easily repeat.
You can change the Fill or the Border.
Let's add a border here, a simple line.
Let's make it 1 point.
You can do other things like add a Shadow and Reflection and such.
Then you can add any text that you want to it.
Once you have some text you probably will want to add some other things.
For instance you can add photos.
So I'm going to go to Media up here and I'm just going to grab a photo and then I can
resize that as well.
So now you can basically combine images and photos and build your own layout based on
what you want.
Let's add a headline here.
I'm going to select multiple items by using Shift and I can move this down.
I'm going to add some new text here and move this up and make this a headline box.
It is really no different than a regular text box.
Then I can adjust things as I need.
One useful thing if you are doing lots of this is that you should learn how to group
items.
For instance let's say in this photo here that I want to put a caption right under it.
Then I want to make sure, if I move this photo around, that this caption goes with it.
I can use the shift key to select both of these and I can group them together.
So now they move as one unit.
So that is something very important to do in layout.
If you are doing layout you might want to do a custom page size.
You only have a limited number of choices for some standard pages sizes here but if
you go to File/Page Setup then you can look under Page Attributes, format for (let's just
do any printer here) and we can manage Custom Sizes and I can create a new one, anything
I want.
So some sort of unusual size like 10 x 20 and hit okay and you can see it is going to
change to Other here and I've got 10 x 20.
So you can do custom page sizes.
Let's zoom out and you can see this unusual page size.
Also, as your document gets larger you want to make sure that you are looking at the thumbnails
on the left side so you can see the pages get built.
So we can insert new page here and continue to do that.
Do three pages and jump easily between them.
For more ideas you may want to go and take a look at some of the templates here.
Like for instance let's take a look at some of these flyer and poster templates.
You can see how they are put together.
See there is an image there and boxes there.
You can examine all of these and the different styles and formats and the setups for each
one to get some ideas of what you can do.