Show You can change the document page view to see more or less detail as you work in your document, view a document full-screen, or show two pages side-by-side in a spread. You can also choose how to work on multiple Pages documents at once, either with multiple documents open at the same time on your screen, or organised in a tab bar for quick access. You might want to enlarge (zoom in) or reduce (zoom out) your overall view of a document. For example, zoom in to focus on fine-tuning the placement of a caption or zoom out to work on the layout of your document.
By default, Pages documents open at 125 per cent, but you can change that setting.
You can expand the Pages window so your document fills the entire computer screen.
Tip: When you open multiple documents in full screen, they open in tabs instead of in separate windows. You move between the documents by clicking the tabs in the tab bar. To have all documents open in separate windows instead, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click General. Click the “Prefer tabs” pop-up menu, then choose "always”. You can show two pages side-by-side as you work, which is particularly helpful if your document uses facing pages (with designated left and right pages).
To return to a one-page view, click the Zoom pop-up menu and choose One Page. When you work in multiple documents, it’s helpful to open them in tabs rather than in separate windows — that way, you can quickly move between them without taking up the whole screen with open documents. When you want to view two documents at the same time, you can easily move a document out of a tab.
You can open Pages documents saved on your Mac, in iCloud Drive, on connected servers, and in third-party storage providers. If you can’t open a Pages document, make sure that you have the latest version of Pages from the Mac App Store. If a document is dimmed and can’t be selected, it means the document can’t be opened by Pages. You can open and edit Microsoft Word documents (files with a .doc or .docx filename extension), iBooks Author books (files with a .iba filename extension), and text documents (files with a .rtf or .txt filename extension) in Pages, then save them as Pages or Word documents, or in PDF or EPUB formats. Do any of the following:
When you open a document that uses fonts not installed on your computer, a missing font notification appears briefly at the top of the document. In the notification, click Show and choose a replacement font. You can use Font Book, available in the Applications folder on your Mac, to install fonts you purchase or download. Note: Some templates aren’t downloaded to your computer until you choose them or open a document that uses the template. If your connection is slow or you’re offline when this happens, placeholder images in the document may appear at a lower resolution until you’re online again or the template finishes downloading. Do one of the following:
When you select the Facing Pages option in the File > Document Setup dialog box, document pages are arranged in spreads. A spread is a set of pages viewed together, such as the two pages visible whenever you open a book or magazine. Every InDesign spread includes its own pasteboard, which is an area outside a page where you can store objects that aren’t yet positioned on a page. Each spread’s pasteboard provides space to accommodate objects that bleed, or extend past the edge of a page.
Pages panel A. Page icons B. Page with parent “A” applied C. Selected spread
When you set the Binding option to Right To Left in the Document Setup dialog box, numbers are attached to the page icons from right to left in the Pages panel.
In a long document, you can move to a page quickly by choosing Layout > Go To Page.
Change the page and spread display
The Pages panel provides information about and control over pages, spreads, and parents (pages or spreads that automatically format other pages or spreads). By default, the Pages panel displays thumbnail representations of each page’s content.
Target or select a page or spread
You either select or target pages or spreads, depending on the task you are performing. Some commands affect the currently selected page or spread, while others affect the target page or spread. For example, you can drag ruler guides only to the target page or spread, but page-related commands, such as Duplicate Spread or Delete Page, affect the page or spread selected in the Pages panel. Targeting makes a page or spread active and is helpful when, for example, several spreads are visible in the document window and you want to paste an object onto a specific spread.
Add new pages to a document
Create color labels for page thumbnails
You can assign colored labels to the page thumbnails in the Pages panel. For example, you can use color labels to indicate the status of the pages, such as a green label for complete spreads, a yellow label for spreads being worked on, and a red label for unstarted spreads.
The color label appears below the thumbnail in the Pages panel. Applying a color label to parent pages affects all pages to which the parent is applied. However, when you apply a color label to individual document pages, the color label for the document pages is used. To use a color label for parent pages, select the document pages you want to change and choose Color Label > Use Parent Color from the Pages panel menu. |