New in Pages ’08.
Stationery, newsletters, resumes, brochures, reports, proposals, business cards —whatever you write, Pages ’08 offers an intuitive way to create beautiful, media-rich documents using impressive features you know how to use right away.
Writing and layout modes.
Switch easily between word processing and page layout modes.
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Change tracking.
Powerful & intuitive Change Tracking tools help you manage input from multiple collaborators.
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Contextual Format Bar.
The new context-sensitive Format Bar always puts the most logical tools within easy reach.
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New graphics tools.
Easily remove backgrounds from photos with Instant Alpha. Or add a customizable picture frame.
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Automatic list formatting.
Pages recognizes when you’re typing a list and formats it for you on the fly.
New templates.
Produce great-looking documents using more than 80 new templates for word processing and page layout.
Get started in minutes.
Beautiful Apple-designed templates. Immediate access to your media. Powerful graphics tools. Tables. Stunning 2D and 3D charts. Pages ’08 provides the tools you need to create elegant documents that communicate superbly.
More than 140 templates.
Jump-start your next writing project by opening one of the engaging Apple-designed templates. Pages includes more than 80 word processing templates and more than 60 page layout templates.
Your media just a click away.
Thanks to the built-in Media Browser, you can browse your iPhoto or Aperture libraries. When you find a photo you like, just drag it into your Pages document. Powerful graphics tools let you make image adjustments, add frames or masks, or remove backgrounds.
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Tables that click.
With a single click, you can add a table to your Pages document. Format numbers in table cells for currency or dates. Enter simple calculations using cell references. Even apply functions such as sum and average.
Charts paint a beautiful picture.
It’s easy to create 2D and 3D pie, line, bar, column, area, and scatter charts. Just pick the one that fits your needs. You can customize charts by adding a realistic texture, controlling the lighting, or rotating them.
Writing the Mac way
Writing comes naturally when you use Pages ’08. The most intuitive word processing application on the Mac, Pages puts the tools you need within easy reach. Now writing is as easy and enjoyable as using a Mac.
All the tools you need.
The new context-sensitive Format Bar lets you add a personal touch to your document’s appearance. Choose fonts, set leading and alignment, and apply paragraph and character styles. All the basics — just a click away.
Pages automatically formats lists on the fly and generates tables of contents on demand. You can insert headers and footers and add footnotes. Apply polish to your documents using the proofing and editing tools. And navigate quickly through even the longest documents with page thumbnails.
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Track changes effortlessly.
If you collaborate with others, you’ll find the new change tracking tools invaluable. Change bubbles make it easy to see who suggested which change. You can accept or reject changes all at once or on a case by case basis.
Seamless interaction with Address Book means you can easily create personalized documents such as business cards, invoices, and faxes. With your personal information automatically added to stationery templates, your documents practically begin to write themselves.
Powerful page layout.
Newsletters. Brochures. Flyers. When you want to switch from writer to designer, Pages provides the layout tools you need. Suddenly it’s easy to build beautiful, media-rich documents certain to impress readers.
Complete layout control.
Produce documents that look exactly the way you envision them. With the free-form canvas, you can move photos, charts, shapes, and other objects wherever you like. And place them precisely using the built-in rulers and alignment guides.
Control text wrapping.
To add a photo to a page, simply drag it from the Media Browser and drop it into your document. Turn on Wrap to control how text flows around the photo. Use the format bar to set text to wrap to the left or right, around, or above and below images.
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Follow the flow of text.
New to Pages, visual text box links let you follow the flow of text through your document. Say an article starts on page two and jumps to page five. Text links track it and let you see at a glance if you have more words to place. All it takes is a click to create a new text box into which the remaining text flows.
Widely compatible.
Pages ‘08 supports industry-standard formats, so you can easily open documents created in other word processing applications and share documents with others. Whether they’re using a Mac or a PC.
Open for business.
Import your Microsoft Word documents into Pages ’08 with ease. Whether they’re Microsoft Office 2007 (Office Open XML) or earlier Word files, Pages will open them. Pages imports not only the text, but also the styles, tables, inline and floating objects, charts, footnotes, endnotes, bookmarks, hyperlinks, lists, sections, change tracking, and other elements of your original Word document.
Pages ’08 also opens AppleWorks word processing documents, as well as files saved in Rich Text Format (RTF). It imports a wide assortment of audio (AAC, AIFF, and MP3), image (EPS, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PSD), video (MOV), and other media types.
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Getting the word out.
When it’s time to share Pages documents with friends and colleagues, you can export them as PDF documents, in Word .doc format, as RTF, or as plain text documents. Or send your documents to iWeb for publication on your website as Pages ’08 or PDF documents. (For the former, readers will need a copy of Pages; for the latter, Preview or Adobe Reader.)
