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Apple Pages 2 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents

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The text breaks where your cursor was inserted and continues in the next text

column. If you insert a column break in a single-column layout, the text continues at

the top of the next page.

When you show invisible formatting characters in your document, a column break

symbol appears like this:

To change the number of columns:

1

Place the insertion point after the word where you want to end the current number of

columns and change to a new layout.

2

Choose Insert > Layout Break.

A layout break is inserted and the insertion point is moved to the top of the next

layout. When you show invisibles in your document, a layout break symbol appears

like this:

3

Set the number of columns you want, and format them, in the Layout pane of the

Layout Inspector.

To change the layout margins of columns:

1

Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the

Layout Inspector button.

2

Click Layout in the Layout Inspector.

3

To change the outside margins of the column layout, enter values in the Left and

Right fields under Layout Margins.

4

To create space above and below the current column layout, enter values in the

Before and After fields under Layout Margins.

Note: The new margins cannot extend outside the page margins set for the

document.

To move a layout to the top of a page:

m

Select the checkbox labeled “Layout starts on new page” in the Layout pane of the

Layout Inspector.