Pages User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
- Whats new
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Pages basics
- Get started with Pages
- Apple Creator Studio
- Word-processing or page layout?
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create documents and books
- Find a document
- Open a document
- Save and name a document
- Print a document or envelope
- Work in Pages
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Basic touchscreen gestures
- Use Apple Pencil with Pages
- Use VoiceOver with Pages
- Change Pages privacy and analytics settings
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Add text
- Select text
- Add and replace text
- Copy and paste text
- Use mail merge
- Enter text in another language
- Add the date and time
- Add mathematical equations
- Bookmarks and links
- Add links
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Format text
- Change the look of text
- Set a default font
- Change text capitalization
- Use text styles
- Copy and paste text styles
- Format characters and punctuation
- Format hyphens, dashes, and quotation marks
- Align and space text
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Format documents
- Set paper size and orientation
- Set document margins
- Set up facing pages
- Page templates
- Add and manage pages and sections
- Document parts
- Add page numbers
- Change the page background
- Add a border around a page
- Add watermarks and background objects
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Add images, shapes, and media
- Images
- Shapes
- Add 3D objects
- Add lines and arrows
- Add and edit drawings
- Video and audio
- Set the movie format
- Position and style objects
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Add tables
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Create and style tables
- Add or delete a table
- Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
- Add or change table rows and columns
- Merge or unmerge table cells
- Change how a table looks
- Resize, move, or lock a table
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Add and organize table data
- Add and edit cell content
- Work with different types of data
- Highlight cells conditionally
- Alphabetize or sort table data
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Create and style tables
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Create and modify charts
- Add or delete a chart
- Modify chart data
- Move, resize, and rotate a chart
- Change the look of a chart
- Use writing and editing tools
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Share and collaborate
- Send a document
- Publish a book to Apple Books
- Collaborate with others
- Use presenter mode
- Manage and organize documents
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Copyright
[]Layer, group, and lock objects in Pages on iPad
You can work with and arrange the objects on a page in a number of ways:
Layer (or stack) objects to create the appearance of depth
Group objects to more easily move, resize, or rotate them as a single unit
Lock objects to avoid inadvertently moving, modifying, or deleting them
Layer objects
Go to the Pages app
[] on your iPad.Open a document with multiple objects.
Drag an object so that it overlaps with one or more other objects.
Tap
[the Format button], then tap Arrange.Tap an object, then do one of the following:
[The Move Backward button, the Move Forward button, and the layering slider.]Drag the slider until the object is layered where you want it.
Tap the icons to move the selected object forward or backward.
You can select multiple objects to layer them all at once.
Group or ungroup objects
Go to the Pages app
[] on your iPad.Open a document with multiple objects.
Touch and hold an object, then with another finger, tap the other objects you want to group.
Lift your fingers, then tap Group.
[One finger holding a shape and another finger tapping a separate shape.]
To ungroup objects, tap the group, then tap Ungroup.
Lock or unlock objects
When an object is locked, you cant move, delete, or modify it in any way until you unlock it.
[A locked object with dimmed selection handles.]Go to the Pages app
[] on your iPad.Open a document, then tap an object to select it, or select multiple objects.
Tap
[the Format button], tap Arrange, then tap Lock.If you dont see Lock, the object is set to Move with Text. Turn off Move with Text and try again.
To unlock an object, tap it, then tap Unlock.