Table Of ContentV I S UA L Q U I C K S TA R T G U I D E
Pages
for iPad
NOLAN HESTER
Peachpit Press
Visual QuickStart Guide
Pages for iPad
Nolan Hester
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Copyright © 2011 by Nolan Hester
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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-75138-6
ISBN-10: 0-321-75138-8
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Printed and bound in the United States of America
Dedication
To Mary, for being right there as we push ahead in this unknown
adventure called life.
And everyone pushing the boundaries of where art and devices
such as the iPad can take us.
Special Thanks to…
Valerie Witte, my editor, for her patience and skill in getting this one out
the door,
David Van Ness for pulling all the pieces together in his usual sharp
layouts,
Kelly Kordes Anton for a close editing that kept me on the right page,
Rebecca Plunkett for pitching in to generate the index under a tight
deadline,
Tom Negrino and Chris Fehily, the authors of Peachpit’s Keynote for
iPad: Visual QuickStart Guide and Numbers for iPad: Visual Quick-
Start Guide, respectively, for their camaraderie and fast answers,
Scott Cowlin for doing the unthinkable—loaning me his iPad for 10 long
days—until mine arrived,
and all the other great folks at Peachpit who brought me on board the
iPad book express.
Contents at a Glance
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter 1: Pages for iPad Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2: Working with Pages for iPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3: Creating Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4: Importing and Exporting Documents . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 5: Working with Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 6: Working with Images and Shapes. . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 7: Arranging Objects and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 8: Working with Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 9: Working with Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
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Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter 1: Pages for iPad Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Combo with a Difference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Pages vs. Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Text Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Image Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Shape Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Chart Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Table Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2: Working with Pages for iPad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Moving Around the iPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the Screen Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using an External Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Opening Pages for iPad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Navigating in Pages for iPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 3: Creating Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Creating a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Duplicating a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Deleting a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Setting Page Margins and Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Adding Content to Headers or Footers. . . . . . . . . . 32
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 4: Importing and Exporting Documents . . . . . . . . 35
Moving Files Using iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Moving Files Using Email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sharing Files Using iWork.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Printing iPad Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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Chapter 5: Working with Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Styling Text and Paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Changing Text Colors and Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Working with Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Setting Paragraph Alignment and Margins. . . . . . . . 61
Setting Tab Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Working with Text Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Using Page Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Using Text Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chapter 6: Working with Images and Shapes . . . . . . . . . . 73
Importing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Inserting Images and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Moving and Resizing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Masking Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Flipping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Adding Text Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Inserting Shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Chapter 7: Arranging Objects and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Arranging Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Working with Edge Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Stacking Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Arranging Objects with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Chapter 8: Working with Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Adding Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Adding or Deleting Columns and Rows. . . . . . . . . .104
Changing Chart Colors or Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Changing Titles and Legends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Placing Value Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Displaying Axis Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Plotting Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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Chapter 9: Working with Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Adding and Removing Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Selecting Cells, Columns, or Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Adding or Deleting Columns and Rows. . . . . . . . . . 119
Moving Cell Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Moving and Resizing Columns or Rows. . . . . . . . . . 121
Changing Table Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Changing Table Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Setting Grid Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Putting It All Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
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Introduction
Up for an adventure? I hope so, because between the iPad and your main computer,
Pages for iPad—and the iPad it runs on—are we’re with you at every step. Succinct
so new it’s mostly unknown territory ahead. captions explain all the major functions
There’ll be some bushwhacking, no doubt. and options. Ideally, you should be able to
But there’s also great fun ahead as you quickly locate what you need by scan-
blaze the trail for those back at their offices ning the headlines and illustrations. Once
and desks. Just be sure to bring along you find a relevant topic, dig into the text
this book. It forms a perfect stack with the for the details. Sidebars, which run in a
iPad—try it and see—and helps protect your light-beige box, highlight a particular topic,
screen wherever you’re headed. such as adding background images to your
documents.
This book’s companion website
Using This Book (www.waywest.net/pages4ipad) has
example documents and images from
Like all of Peachpit’s Visual QuickStart
the book that you can download to work
Guides, this book uses lots of screen shots
through many of the tasks step by step.
to guide you through the entire process
The site also features tips on how to get
of creating Pages for iPad documents.
the most from Pages for iPad. Feel free to
Whether it’s generating and styling text,
write me at [email protected] with your
crafting headlines, importing photos, add-
own tips—or any mistakes you may find.
ing charts and tables, and shuttling it all
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