Make your docs stand out

Tips and techniques to elevate your Pages projects and make them shine

SO FAR, WE’VE learned how to set up a Pages document using a template and adapt it to our needs. However, Pages has a lot more than that to offer. By using some of its more advanced features, like text wrapping, you can make your newsletters and brochures look very professional. And by using masking and transparency, images can be made to look exactly as you want them to.

On these pages, we’ll show you how to anchor an object to text so that if you add more text or move it around, you don’t have to worry about manually moving the object each time, which can be a big time–saver in longer documents.

There is a great deal more to explore in Pages, but hopefully we’ve shown enough to motivate you to explore and discover more for yourself. Play around, dive into menus and palettes, change things for fun and see what happens. You can revert most things with Cmd+Z and, if not, it’s easy to roll back to a previous version from the File menu.