Hi Ross,
Runaway images:
In a Pages word processing document, images inserted in the document are automatically set to Move with Text. Removing text from the document will affect the position of all images with this setting, AND located below the removed text.
To prevent this movement, select an image, then click the Format brush to open the format Inspector. In the Inspector, click on Arrange, and change 'Move with Text' to 'Stay on Page'.
Remove a page:
In a word processing document, pages are automaticallyt created as they are needed to accommodate the text being pushed down from the page above. If yours is a word processing document, your 'empty' page will contain at least a Page break character to force the existence of this page between the one above and the one below. To see this character, go to the View menu and choose Show Invisibles.
Page break will show as a dog-eared page at the right end of a blue line.
Place the insertion point at the beginning on the next page and press delete to remove the empty page.
In a Page Layout document:
Each page is a seperate section. To remove a page, click on the View button and Show the Page thumbnails in the left sidebar.
In the sidebar, click on the thumbnail image of the page you want to delete, check to confirm that the selection rectangle encloses ONLY that page thumbnail, then press Delete.
CAUTION:
The smallest unit that can be selected in the Thumbnails side bar is a Section.
In a Page Layout document, each page is also a Section,
BUT
In a Pages word processing document, unless the user has created new sections or inserted section breaks, the entire 100 plus page document will be in ONE Section, Selecting a single page thumbnail willl result is the entire document being selected, and pressing Delete will delete ALL content of the document. 8-(
To delete a single page of a Pages word processing document by selecting its thmbnail image and pressing delete, you first need to isolate that page in a section of its own.
To do this:
- place the Insertion point immediately after the last text on the page before the one you want to delete.
- In the Insert menu, choose Section Break.
- Place the insertion point immediately after the last text on the page you want to delete;
- Insert a second section break.
Your target page is now the only content in the new section.
- In the sidebar, click on the thumbnail image of the page you want to delete, check to confirm that the selection rectangle encloses ONLY that page thumbnail, then press Delete.
After deleting the page, you may want to delete the section break on what was the page before the one now deleted, or you may decide that is a logical position for a section break, and leave it there.
Regards,
Barry
