Pages is a powerful word processor and page layout application that also happens to be free if you have a sufficiently recent Mac. But are getting as much out of this popular app as you could be?
Create and collaborate on documents that are beautiful beyond words.
Pages is a powerful word processor that lets you create stunning documents. You can even use Apple Pencil on your iPad to add comments and illustrations by hand. And with real-time collaboration, your team can work together, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, or iPhone, or using a PC.
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A canvas
for creativity.
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From the start, Pages places you in the perfect creative environment. It puts all the right tools in all the right places, so it’s easy to choose a look, customize fonts, personalize text styles, and add beautiful graphics. And everyone collaborating on a document has access to the same powerful features.
Start with a great‑looking template.
Choose from over 70 beautiful Apple‑designed templates, and customize your document any way you like.
See your progress.
Track changes, add highlights, and have threaded conversations with your team. Your edits are saved automatically.
Find and organize chapters easily.
Pages automatically creates a table of contents for you based on paragraph styles and updates it as you make edits. Just tap or click to find the content you want.
Communicate beautifully.
Liven up your text by filling it with color gradients or images. And take the entire page to the next level by adding photos, galleries, math equations, charts, or more than 700 customizable shapes.
Record and edit audio clips.
Add and adjust narration, notes, and sounds for people to play in your documents on iOS and Mac.
Create a book.
From travel books to fairy tales, it’s easy to make beautiful, interactive books with image galleries, audio clips, and videos right inside Pages. Built‑in tools let you copy and paste into different projects, create links to jump to other pages, and collaborate with friends, editors, colleagues, or classmates. And when you’re done, easily share them with others or publish them to Apple Books for download or purchase.
Turn your device into a teleprompter.
Now public speaking is nothing to be afraid of. With Presenter Mode, Pages turns your document into a ready-to-read speech with just a tap. You can then set it to scroll automatically at your pace.
Pages and
Apple Pencil.
Sketch, illustrate, and create documents to express your ideas with Apple Pencil on your iPad.
Draw and modify
Sketch your idea, then press play to watch each stroke animate onto the page.
BetaEdits that stick.
With Smart Annotation, your edits stay with the marked-up text, making it easy for you and your team to incorporate changes.
Collaborate with anyone.
Anywhere.
Work together in the same document, from across town or across the world. You can see your team’s edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. Just select a name on the collaborator list to jump to anyone’s cursor.
Work on any document. On any device.
You don’t work in one place on just one device. The same goes for Pages. So the documents your team creates using a Mac or iPad look the same on an iPhone or web browser — and vice versa.
Work together in real time on documents stored on iCloud or Box.
Everyone can collaborate — whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or a PC web browser.
Unlock documents with a touch or a glance.
Open password-protected files in a snap with Touch ID or Face ID on compatible devices.
Microsoft Word friendly.
Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft Word? Pages makes it simple. You can save Pages documents as Word files. Or import and edit Word documents right in Pages. Most popular Word features are supported, too. Now it’s no problem to work on the same project. Even if you use different apps.
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You can easily add or delete a page in your documents with Word for Mac.
Last Updated: 1/18/2018
Add a new page or a page break
To add a new blank page or page break to your document, click Pages on the Insert tab, and then choose either Blank Page or Page Break.
If you choose Page Break, all subsequent content after your insertion point will be moved onto the next page.
Delete a page
You can delete a blank page at the end of your document, or empty paragraphs or page breaks, by showing paragraph marks.
Press ⌘ + 8 to show paragraph marks.
To delete empty paragraphs, select the paragraph mark and delete it.
To delete manual page breaks, select the page break and delete it.
Manual For Pages On Mac
See also
Add a New Page
To add a new blank page to your document, go to the Document Elements tab of the Ribbon and under Insert Pages click Blank.
To insert a page break, which forces all of the subsequent content onto the next page:
Click at the beginning of the paragraph that you want to follow the page break.
On the Layout tab of the ribbon, click Break.
Click Page to insert a page break.
Delete a Page
Note: If you want to delete the entire document, rather than just one or more blank pages within the document, go to Finder, locate your file and drag it to Trash. Your items aren't permanently deleted until you empty the Trash.
The easy way
Go to the page you want to remove.
On the View menu, click Publishing Layout.
On the Layout tab of the Ribbon, under Pages, click Remove
If that didn’t work, then the cause of the blank page will take a little more investigation.
What's causing the blank page
Turn on paragraph marks to see what’s causing the blank page by clicking Show all nonprinting characters on the Standard toolbar.
Extra paragraphs
If you have extra, blank, paragraphs at the end of your document you’ll see empty paragraph marks (¶) on the blank page. Select them and then remove them by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard.
Manual page break
If the empty page is the result of a manual page break, you can select the page break and press Delete to remove it.
This is one of the most common causes of an unwanted blank page in the middle of a document too.
Section break
New Page, Odd Page and Even Page section breaks may create a new page in Word. If your empty page occurs at the end of your document and you have a section break there, you can select the section break and press Delete to remove it. That should remove the blank page.
Caution: If a section break is causing a blank page in the middle of a document, removing the section break can cause formatting issues. If you intended for the content that follows that point to have different formatting, then keep the section break. You don’t want to delete that section break because that would cause the pages before the section break to take on the formatting of the pages after the section break. You can, however, change the section break to a Continuous section break, which will preserve the formatting changes without inserting a blank page.
To change a section break to a continuous section break:
Click on the page AFTER the section break you wish to change.
Click the Format menu, then Document.
On the Document dialog box change the Section start to Continuous.
Click OK
Table at the end of the document
If you still have an unwanted blank page at the end of your document, then it’s likely that the preceding page has a table that goes all the way to the bottom of it. Word requires an empty paragraph after the table and if your table goes all the way to the bottom of the page the empty paragraph will be pushed onto the next page. You won’t be able to delete that empty paragraph mark.
Note: Many resume templates are formatted with full-page tables
The easiest way to resolve this is to simply hide the empty paragraph at the end of the document.
Select the paragraph mark on the extra page.
Click the Format menu,
Click the Font item on the menu.
Click the Hidden checkbox
Click OK
Click Show all nonprinting characters on the Standard toolbar to turn display of nonprinting characters off
The unwanted page should disappear.
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