Using the New Background Feature In Mac Pages
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2020
- macmost.com/e-2155 You can now set a background color, gradient or image for sections in Pages documents. This is a new feature in the Section sidebar that makes it much easier to include a color fill or pattern behind your text.
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I’m an almost expert on Mac bacause of your informatie tutorials! You are awesome,Gary.
Gary (at MacMost :) You are the Bomb! I know I'm stating the obvious here, but,
You. Are. The. Bomb. I actually had to stop and pause the video and write this. Thank you for being so reliable as my go to guy for all questions Mac. I'm learning so much from you!
Thanks! 😊
I found your video very useful - you really helped me to do what I was needing to do which was to put my own picture as a background. You gave me what I needed and so much more. Great job!
Thank you for this video!! Such a simple thing that I have spent HOURS trying to to find info / figure out how to do it. Your video is extremely appreciated!
Hello Gary, I just found your channel on Mac. I am learning so much from you about Pages. You do a great job and it’s much appreciated. Subscribed to your channel. I have a lot to get caught up on.
Thanks
Nick
I am an expert in numbers,pages and keynote because of your videos . Thank you
Holy Glocomoli, this is ravenous! Been waiting for this moment and I missed it. Thank you sooooooooooo much Gary
Thank you! It’s very helpful.
Very good video as always !
Very helpful video. Thanks for sharing.
Very helpful. Thanks!
Very useful. Thanks.
Fantastic.. thank you..
Thanks for this very clear and concise video! Quick question...I've dragged a few backgrounds into pages from my desktop. Are they automatically saved in pages for later use or do I need to keep them stored on my computer?
Thank you!
Nice feature,thanks...
@macmost Great content as always! We need a video in which typing using english language (left to right) & Arabic language (right to left) can be written with respect to cursor position. What is split cursor? & other keyboard shortcuts?
I love this guy LOL
They finally did it! I've been opening word files with backgrounds that can't be converted for years now.
Apples Pages is slowly moving in the Word direction.
Thank you.
Thank you
Gary bro just awesome
Thanks for all your tutorials. Also, If I were 10 years younger I would offer myself to you. ha!
You save me. 💓
thank you
You are awesome
Thanks for the video but my pages do not show the format & document in the same place as yours, making it difficult to follow. I wonder if its because I am in UK?
I have a digital newsletter. I have a nice photo for the cover, but even playing around with different colors for text it is difficult to read. Is it possible to make like the bottom quarter of an image more opaque than the top?
Thank you very informative. Can you please let me know how to add a video in pages and export it as PDF.
Gary d'avero interessante, e una funzione da poter fruttare. Per documenti particolari. Per evidenziare un testo, un oggetto. Da valutare
Hi Garry I have an problem in my MacBook Air i5 plz help I was factory resetting my mac but by mistake I tap on restart and now my mac has stuck in internet recovery plz help
How can I change the setting so the background color doesn't print? Thanks.
Thanks for this tutorial. I'm trying to move from Word, which I've used for years, to Pages. Can a Pages document with a border design that is on the edge be converted to a fillable PDF? How can that be done? Thanks for your help!
no, you can’t create PDF forms with Pages. you need pro PDF creation software like Adobe Acrobat for that.
Gary, thanks for your very useful videos. I wonder how I can create one single page with Landscape format in a document.I have been searching this very simple function but I failed to find any help. Note: I only want a single page Landscape in a very large document. Thanks.
You can't. The page size is the same for the entire document. You'll need to create that one landscape page in another document and merge them in Preview afterwards. ua-cam.com/video/vnJNqZc6Hz8/v-deo.html
This is neat, but did they have to screw up the section editor to provide it? Ask to create a new section after an existing on and the new one appears BEFORE the original. So, to add a new section after an existing page, I have to go to the page AFTER where I want the new section to insert the new page. Likewise, when I uncheck the headers and footers box, it affects the previous section instead of the one I'm in.
Being able to do quality book layout was always one of the best things about Pages, especially when you don't have time to learn Adobe. Now it seems like I have to relearn something essential every time there's an update.
How does one curve the text around a photo?
Just downloaded pages and when I click outside an element it does not give an option. This must be for an older version of pages.
Thanks so much, i've just subscribed. Question - is there a way to export to pdf with transparent background? I've set the background to transparent but when I export to PDF it's on a white background. Is there any way to keep the transparency in export? For example, I placed an image inside a round object, I want just that round image exported with transparent background, but it always opens in anything else with white background. Thanks in advance for answering, if you decide to do so :) ✨💖✨
I don't think so. Pages is always going to think in terms of a digital paper document and put a white background behind it. I don't know what your goal is here, but you can use Keynote to export transparent PNG files created with the same tools (images, shapes, text) as Pages.
I have Pages 10 but I don't see the "format" or "document" icons. At the top of my page it says "text".
Hmmm - I suspect that the manufacturers of color printer cartridges were lobbying Apple for this feature!
Hi.. Thanks a lot for the gooc content.
Can you tell me how to make the photo blurry please ?
You'll need to use an image editing app for that: Pixelmator, Acorn, Affinity, Photoshop, etc.
So, this option is gone for 5.6.2, is that correct? The "Background" field is not visible in my version. My OS is MacOS Big Sur 11.5.1.
Pages is currently at version 11.1. Are you sure you have version 5.6.2? If you have Big Sur, I'm pretty sure Pages 5 won't run on that. Assuming you have the latest version of Pages, this definitely works (it is a relatively new feature) but it is in Document, Section now for Word Processing documents and Format, Page (click on the background to see Page) for Page Layout.
why cant we change the coor of the image fill
I was hoping to find out how to add color fill to background of footers. I've searched for hours but still can't find a way to do it in Pages version 11
Place it as a background element behind the text.
@@macmost Thanks. I couldn't find out how to do that, but finally solved the problem going to layout, borders and rules, paragraph background, selecting my color, which only filled out behind text but not entire footer. I then switched to style, where I was able to extend the color to fill the entire footer element by hitting the space bar at the end of the line of text until the color filled the whole area in. For anyone else struggling with this!
Nice video. I put a background image for a food menu that I email to a client. But, the background picture is not contained in the file :( The client has Pages 9. How do you easily to solve that?
They need to have the latest version of Pages for this to be supported. It is a new feature.
@@macmost Ok. Thanks for the quick replay.
I am really puzzled. I have Pages version 10 (6748) extractly as shown in the video, but when I start new file, I don't see the line containing Format and Document plus all the rest like View, Zoom, Add Page. They're just not there. Where am I going wrong?
The line? Do you mean the toolbar? At some point you must have chosen View, Hide Toolbar. To get it back, choose View, Show Toolbar.
@@macmost Thanks, there are so many features in Pages that I find it difficult to get round to trying them. Besides, if I click on something and find I don't like it, it can be hard to back off and get back to where I started.
@@thomaskember4628 That shouldn't be true. Anything you do that actually changes your document you can simply use Edit, Undo. And any menu you change like Hide Toolbar, you can switch back by using the same item, Show Toolbar in this case. You shouldn't feel afraid to explore and experiment. That is exactly how you learn how to use software!
@@macmost Okay, I'll take your advice and experiment with everything (almost everything ) on Pages. But first I'm going to backup all the files I am going to experiment with. Backing up should be one of the first things that is taught in computing. I back up the files I'm currently using on to memory stick (no it's two memory sticks).
@@thomaskember4628 Or, just experiment using blank documents or copies of existing documents. Notice how in my videos I'm always using old public domain text (Alice in Wonderland) to show things.
What type of file can be used for image fill?
Any standard graphics file should work? jpg, png, etc.
Sir, do you know how to insert citations to Pages?
Something like this? ua-cam.com/video/CYbTCjUUD3w/v-deo.html
how to apply it to all pages in the document after its done?
In a Word Processing document, the background applies to all pages in the section. In a Page Layout document change the Page Template background color to have it apply to all pages using that template.
With iBooks Author becoming obsolete on 1 July 2020 can you create a new video to show how to create the Gazette template used in iBooks Author?
I'll add it to my maybe list. I'm probably not the one to do that as I don't use iBooks Author (at least not professionally) and have never used any template like that. Is there are particular feature in that template that you are unsure how to create in Pages?
@@macmost The Gazette template has a builtin choice for changing the page layout. One page type consists of a smaller text column column on the left side that I use for adding notes and references and the main text page on the right. When I come to the end of the main text page (the right hand side text box) it automatically creates a new identical page with he same two columns.
I trust this helps. I watched your video on backgrounds and it is good. I will use it to paste a paper type of photo. You are a great instructor. Well done. This is my first time I came across your videos.
When I select you did at it just says "nothing selected, select an object or text to format" what!!
With the most recent version and using Word Processing (not Page Layout), click on Document, then Section on the right.
can you make the background transparent?
In what way? A Pages document can't be transparent (showing what behind it?).
It doesn't do that on mine. It doesn't recognise I'm clicking on my document at all!! Is mine the only one not doing this so easily? Please help
What version of Pages do you have?
@@macmost I didn't know so I'm in the process of trying to update it - I watched the older version video as well but it didn't have the background option either. I'm now assuming updating will sort it out
every time I click on the background it doesn't show in format anything
Are you using the latest version of Pages?
@@macmost yes, pages is updated and I also have the iOS latest update and I can't seem to be able to change the background at all :(
doesn't work
But, why tho?
Not everyone needs it. But some people may want to create more colorful PDF files and printouts.
macmostvideo Fair enough - fair enough.
You are so good about giving the info I need. But, your speech and clicker are way too fast for a person who has NOT already had Microsoft Word or much computer work at all. Slow down, and remember: YOU know what you are talking about; I do not.
Thank you.