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
[]Prevent accidental editing in Pages on iPad
To avoid accidentally moving objects or bringing up the keyboard as you view, scroll, and interact with text and objects, you can use reading view. Reading view minimizes the controls to just what you need to view the content and perform basic tasks. You can quickly switch to editing view to make changes, then switch back to reading view.
When you send a Pages document to someone else or someone sends a document to you, it opens on iPhone and iPad in reading view. When you reopen a document, it opens the way you left itin reading view or editing view.
If you prefer to always open documents in editing view, you can change this setting.
Go to the Pages app
[] on your iPad.Open a document.
Do any of the following to switch between reading view and editing view:
Switch to editing view: Tap Edit at the top of the screen.
Switch to editing view with text selected: Tap Edit in the menu that appears.
[A sentence is selected, and above it is a contextual menu with Copy and Edit buttons.]Switch to editing view with an image or table cell selected: Touch and hold the image or cell, then tap Edit in the menu that appears.
[A table cell is selected, and above it is a menu with Copy and Edit buttons.]Switch from editing to reading view: Tap
[the More button], then tap Reading View.Set documents you receive to always open in editing view: Tap
[the More button], tap Settings, then turn on Open in Edit View. If you later change a document to reading view, it opens in reading view the next time you open it.
In reading view, tracked changes show the view you see when you select Final in change tracking (text is displayed without markup, and deleted text is hidden). The table of contents is visible, but not the bookmarks list (links to bookmarks still work).