1. Tap the Pages app icon on the Home screen. Most likely, the Pages app is located on the second page of your Home screen. You should start in the My Documents list. If not, tap the My Documents button at the upper-left corner to go there.
2. The sample document that teaches you a little bit about Pages displays. Tap it and scroll vertically through it if you want.
3. Otherwise, tap the + button at the bottom of the screen to start a new document.
4. Tap New Document.
5. The template choices display You can scroll vertically to see more. Tap the Blank template to go into the main editing view.
   

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   A Different Angle
   When you turn your iPad on its side, the horizontal view of the editing screen is very different. There are no toolbars or buttons. There’s just a keyboard and the page with your text. If you want to apply styling and formatting, make sure you’re in vertical mode.

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6. Type some sample text in the document just to get the feel for entering text.
7. Return to your documents list by tapping My Documents.
8. Browse through your documents by swiping left and right. You should have two documents now, the one you just created and the sample document.
9. With the document you want to edit in the center of the screen, tap it to open that document.
10. With the document you want to delete in the center of the screen, tap the Trash icon to delete documents.

A Real Keyboard

If you plan on using Pages on your iPad often, you might want to invest in a physical keyboard for your iPad. You can use the Apple Wireless keyboard or almost any Bluetooth keyboard. Apple also has a version of the iPad dock that includes a keyboard. See Chapter 17, “iPad Accessories,” for details.

1. In an open document, double-tap a word to select it.
2. Pull on the blue dots to select the area you want to style.
3. Use the toolbar buttons to format your text as bold, italic, or underline.

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   Undo Mistakes
   At the top of the Pages screen, there is an Undo button. Use that to undo the last action you took—whether it is typing some text or changing styles. You can use Undo multiple times to go back several steps.

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4. Tap the i button to bring up the Style/List/Layout menu.
5. Tap Style.
6. Tap the B, I, and U buttons to format text. Tap the buttons a second time if you want to change the style back to plain text. The fourth button, S, styles the text as strikethrough.
7. Under the text formatting buttons are some preset styles you can use. Drag the list up to reveal Text Options and tap it.
8. Set the font size, color, and type. Tap on the top and bottom halves of the font size indicator to increase and decrease the font size.
9. Tap the Color button to get a selection of colors.
10. Tap a color or drag to the left to look at grayscale options.
11. The black color tile has a check mark in it to indicate that it is the current color of the text. Swipe back and choose a different color, such as red.
12. Tap the left-facing arrow above the colors to return to the Text Options menu.
13. Tap Font.
14. Drag in the list of fonts to view them all.
15. Tap a font to change the selected text to it.
16. Tap the blue button to the right of most fonts to view font variations.
17. Tap outside of the menu to dismiss it and return to editing.

1. Select some text.
2. If you already have a style in the clipboard, you see a More option; tap it. Otherwise, you might see the Copy Style option appear without needing to tap More.
3. Tap Copy Style.
4. Select another piece of text.
5. Tap More (as shown in step 2) and then tap Paste Style.
6. Your style is copied to the selected text.

1. Continue to work with the sample document, or start a new one and add some text.
2. Tap in the text so that the cursor is somewhere in the line. It can be at the beginning, the middle, or the end, so long as it is not on another line.
3. Tap the center alignment button in the toolbar to center the text. You can use the left, right, or justified buttons in the same set to align the text differently.
4. Tap at the end of the line to place the cursor there.
5. Tap return on the on-screen keyboard to go to the next line.
6. Tap the left alignment button in the toolbar.
7. Type some sample text, just a word or two.
8. Tap the button in the toolbar to see choices for tabs and breaks.
9. Tap Tab on the drop-down menu to insert a tab.
10. Type another sample word. Because the new line of text inherited the underline format of the previous line, we can clearly see the extra space inserted between the words by the tab. We haven’t added any tab stops to the document yet, so the position just defaults to the next inch.
11. Tap in the ruler around the 3-inch marker to insert a tab stop and move the second word over to match this tab stop’s horizontal position.

More Tab Options

If you like tabs, you’ll be happy to know you can make centered tabs, right tabs, and dotted tabs as you would on a desktop word processor. Just double-tap a tab in the ruler, and it changes to the next type. To remove a tab, just tap and drag it down and out of the ruler.

1. Create a new document in pages using the Blank template.
2. Type a word that could be the first item in a list. Don’t tap return.
3. Tap the i button on the toolbar.
4. Tap List.
5. Tap the Bullet option to turn the text you just typed into the first item in a bulleted list.
6. Use the on-screen keyboard to hit return and type several more lines. Tapping return always creates a new line in the list. Tapping return a second time ends the list formatting.
7. Select the entire list.
8. Tap the i button.
9. Tap Numbered to change the list to a numbered list.
10. Tap one line of the list.
11. Tap i again.
12. Tap the right arrow in the List menu to indent the line and create a sublist. You can create sublists as you type or by selecting lines and using the arrow buttons to format after you type.

1. Start a new document and fill it with text—perhaps copy and paste text from a website article.
2. With no text selected, tap the i button.
3. Tap Layout.
   

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   Line Spacing
   The Layout menu includes duplicates of the alignment buttons and a Line Spacing setting. You can change the line spacing in one-quarter of an inch increments. A change affects the text in the paragraph where the cursor is located or the text in all selected paragraphs.

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4. Tap 2 under Columns. The entire document changes to a 2-column layout.
5. Tap 1 to switch back to a 1-column layout.

Using Different Column Formats

You can select just one paragraph and apply a two-column layout to it while leaving the rest of your document in one-column layout. Be aware, though, that switching between one column and multiple columns in the same document can yield unpredictable results, so proceed with caution.

1. Open a new document and fill it with text.
2. Place the cursor somewhere in the text, such as at the beginning of the second paragraph.
3. Tap the Image button.
4. Tap Media.
5. Then select a photo from a photo album.
6. The photo appears in the document at the location of the cursor. Tap it to close the menu.
7. You can tap on the image and use Cut, Copy, Delete and Replace on the photo when it is selected. The later option brings the photos menu back for you to select another.
8. Drag the blue dots around the photo to resize it.
9. While resizing, measurements appear next to the photo.
10. Tap the i button to bring up the Style and Arrange menu.
11. Tap Arrange to see options for flipping a photo, moving it in front of or behind other items on the page, and editing the mask of the photo.
12. Tap Edit Mask.
13. Drag the slider to resize the photo. The photo changes size, but the size of the object remains the same, which enables you to put the focus on a particular portion of the photo by moving the photo around inside the space. Tap Done.
14. Tap Wrap.
15. Use the Wrap menu to designate how the text wraps around the photo and whether the photo should stay put on the page or move along as you insert text before it.
16. Tap Style.
17. Choose the type of border that appears around the photo. There are six basic styles to choose from. In addition, you can tap Style Options and chose your own border and effects.

Rearranging Images

After you place an image in your document, you can drag it around and resize it as much as you want. Pages automatically snaps the edges of the image to the margins and center lines of the page as you drag it around.

Importing Clipart

I’ve found that the best way to get clip art on to your iPad and in to Pages is to drag it into iPhoto. Then, I create a ClipArt event to store the files in. I then sync my iPad, making sure that the ClipArt event is set to sync. You can also do this with a folder if you aren’t using iPhoto or are on Windows.

1. Create a new document and add some text.
2. Tap the Image button to bring up the Media/Tables/Charts/Shapes menu.
3. Tap the Shapes button.
4. Tap a shape, such as the rounded rectangle. It is placed in the middle of the text.
5. Tap the shape in the text to dismiss the menu.
6. Use the blue dots to resize the shape.
7. Tap and drag in the middle of the shape to move it around in the document.
8. Double-tap in the shape to enter text into the shape.

Go Further

LOTS OF CHOICES

The first shape, shown with the letter T, is actually a hollow box where you can add text. The next choices are a line, an arrow, and then the shapes you can more easily see.

If you drag to the left, you can look through six pages of shape variations. These are the same shapes, but with different borders, shading, or just outlines.

After you select a shape and add it to a document, you can always select it and press the i button to change its style to one of the other five. You can also choose Style Options and specify unique fills, borders, and effects for the shapes.

1. Start a new document.
2. Tap the Image button.
3. Tap Tables. There are four different table options. In addition, you can swipe left and right in the menu to reveal six color variations.
4. Tap the first table to insert it.
5. Tap the button to the right of the table or below the table to adjust the number of columns and rows.
6. Double-tap in a cell to enter text.
7. Tap the i button to bring up the Table/Headers/Arrange menu.
8. Tap Table to choose from six table styles.
9. Tap Table Options to go to a menu that gives you even more control over the borders and background colors of the table.
10. Tap Headers to change the number of rows used as a header and the number of columns as well. You can even add footer rows. These all show up as different colors according to the style of table.
11. Tap Arrange to bring up text wrapping options and to send the table behind or in front of other objects.

Moving Tables

You can drag the table around the document by grabbing it at the top, at the left, or by the circle at the top left.

1. Create a blank document.
2. Tap the Image button.
3. Tap Charts. You can look through six pages of chart styles, but the basics of each set of charts is the same.
4. Tap a chart to select it and insert that type of chart in the middle of your document.
5. Double-tap the chart to bring up the Edit Chart Data screen.
6. Alter the existing data to create your own chart by tapping the field and typing.
7. When you finish entering data, tap Done.
8. When you return to the main document view, select the chart and tap i.
9. From the Chart menu, select a color scheme for the chart.
10. Tap Chart Options.
11. Use the Chart Options menu to change a variety of properties of the chart.

1. Open a document or create a new one.
2. Tap the Wrench button.
3. Choose Document Setup.
4. Drag the arrows at the four edges of the page to adjust the width and height of the page.
5. Tap in the header to add text to the header.
6. While typing in the header, tap the # button to add page numbers to the header.
   

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   Add Background Images
   One thing you can do with Document Setup that is not obvious is to add background objects that appear under every page. You can tap the Image button and add photos, tables, charts, and shapes to the main page area. The image you add appears behind the text. You can even add text that appears on every page by just inserting a borderless, empty text box shape and adding text to it.

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7. Tap the footer to add text to the footer.
8. Tap the page curl to change the paper size.

Create a Background

You can color the entire background by creating a square box and stretching it to fill the page. Then add a shaded or textured background to it as a color in the shape’s Style Options. You can also place a picture over the entire background.

1. Make sure your iPad and computer are connected via a dock cable.
2. Launch iTunes on your Mac or PC and go to your iPad’s Apps tab.
3. Scroll down to see the File Sharing Section.
4. Click Pages in the list on the left.
5. Click Add to import files into your iPad, or drag and drop them.
   

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   Pages Does Word
   You can put more than just Pages documents into the iTunes list to import. Pages can also take Microsoft Word .doc and even .docx files.

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6. On your iPad, launch Pages.
7. Tap the Folder button while browsing your documents.
8. Select the document to bring in to Pages. At this point you see a progress bar appear as the file is imported.

Pages Is No Pages

The Pages on your iPad and the Pages on your Mac are not the same. You can do a lot more with Pages on your Mac. So sometimes you might receive a Document Import Warning message telling you what didn’t work as you import your file to your iPad.

1. Make sure your iPad and computer are connected via a dock cable.
2. While browsing your documents, choose the one you want to export and tap the Boxed Arrow button.
3. Choose Export.
4. Choose Pages if you use Pages on a Mac. Otherwise, choose Word if you use Microsoft Word in Windows. Choose PDF to send a noneditable document to your computer for distribution or printing.
5. The document takes a few seconds to export and then appears in your Pages Documents under File Sharing in the Apps section of iTunes.

Other Ways to Transfer Documents

You can also transfer documents via email and Apple’s iWork.com service (if you have an account). You can use this with the same file transfer process with Numbers and Keynote. There are also some third-party apps that use iTunes to transfer files.