{"id":5064,"date":"2015-01-07T18:47:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2015-01-07T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:47:32","slug":"tidbits-publishing-e-book-only-take-control-of-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2015\/01\/07\/tidbits-publishing-e-book-only-take-control-of-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"TidBITS Publishing e-book (only): Take Control of Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9781615424320.do\">http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9781615424320.do<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pages_(word_processor)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pages_(word_processor)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9781615424320.do\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;width: 85px;padding: 0 10px 10px 0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covers.oreillystatic.com\/images\/9781615424320\/bkt.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>Work effectively in Pages in OS X Yosemite, iOS 8, and iCloud!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s Pages word processor is a big, sprawling app with hundreds of features tucked away in nooks and crannies, making Michael E. Cohen&#8217;s comprehensive book an essential resources for newbies and experts alike. Those new to Pages, or still getting their sea legs in the transition to Pages 5 will appreciate Michael&#8217;s guide to finding familiar tools, formatting text, and iCloud Drive quirks. And everyone will benefit from the book&#8217;s discussion of advanced features like snaking columns (snarky columns are left as an exercise to the reader), list styles, layout options, and collaboration tools.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you need quick help with a particular feature or steel-toed documentation with which to kick Pages into shape, this book is for you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Still running 10.9 Mavericks?<\/b> Mavericks users can still find plenty of Pages help here. To find out what&#8217;s different, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takecontrolbooks.com\/news\/what-about-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What about Mavericks?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book offers plenty of help with word processing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For everyday word processing, you&#8217;ll find directions for working with fonts, tabs, indents, rulers, search and replace, spell checking, and more.<\/li>\n<li>For longer, more complex documents, you&#8217;ll learn how to control headers, footers, page numbers, footnotes, and section breaks. Plus you&#8217;ll find oodles of help with character styles, paragraph styles, and even list styles.<\/li>\n<li>For projects that go way beyond the norm, you&#8217;ll learn how to create your own templates, complete with master objects.<\/li>\n<li>For collaborative projects, you&#8217;ll come up to speed with the track changes and commenting features. You can also use the newfangled Share icon to collaborate with others (simultaneously) in an iCloud-based Pages document.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Layout and graphics merit attention too, in terms of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turning off the usual word processing text flow so you can lay out independent objects more easily (perfect for posters!)<\/li>\n<li>Inserting text boxes, vector graphics, and all manner of media<\/li>\n<li>Styling text boxes and vector graphics with whizzy object styles (for example, you can specify a specific color and shadow)<\/li>\n<li>Being precise with smart guides and vertical rulers<\/li>\n<li>Creating a custom look with fills, shadows, opacity, and more<\/li>\n<li>Working in tables (which can act as mini spreadsheets) and creating charts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also find thoughtful directions for managing your documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens with fonts and features when you move Pages documents between Mac, iOS, and iCloud<\/li>\n<li>Whether and how to work with Pages documents in iCloud Drive<\/li>\n<li>How to import from Pages 4 (aka Pages &#8217;09), Word, text, and RTF<\/li>\n<li>How to export to Pages 4, Word, text, EPUB, and PDF<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And lots more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9781615424320.do https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pages_(word_processor) Work effectively in Pages in OS X Yosemite, iOS 8, and iCloud! Apple&#8217;s Pages word processor is a big, sprawling app with hundreds of features tucked away in nooks and crannies, making Michael E. Cohen&#8217;s comprehensive book an essential resources for newbies and experts alike. Those new to Pages, or still getting their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[883],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple-pages"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-1jG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}