Do many of us remember - or want to remember - the time before mouse? We used to do everything with just the keyboard, didn't we? There was an ad that had stuck in my memory from the seventies when the mouse first appeared: 'If you can point a finger, you can type'. Well, we've come the full round and re-learn the importance of keyboard.
Here is the list of my blogposts about various shortcuts I find particularly useful in Pages. A long list of shortcuts sits under Pages Help menu. And another comprehensive list of shortcuts is in System Preferences>International>Input Menu.
The usefulness of most shortcuts is self-evident, for example Command+S - Save. With many others it is not clear why you might need them and where they could be useful. That's why I scribbled notes about the ones I particularly liked while working in Pages.
Click on the label (tag) iWork Pages keyboard shortcuts or useful shortcuts to see all articles on this topic.
My top Pages shortcut: the undo
Health and Efficiency: three serious reasons to work with both hands
Look after your hands: useful shortcuts
Undo-Redo Shortcut: Zap To And Fro
How to design folders (about send backwards/bring forwards shortcuts)
Keyboard shortcuts: Hide and show invisibles and layout
Screenshots in Mac OS
What to do when picture wrapping pushes caption out of the text box - about Bring to Front shortcut
How to empty Trash (wastebasket) with locked files
Rose cover: simple tricks with photos
Mac-mouse equivalent of the 'right-click'
Colour Palette shortcut
'Up folder' shortcut on Macs
Valentine's clipart and graphics - uses for Command+D, Send to back and Screenshot key-shorts.
Use Preview to update repeated formats - how to use define as media placeholder short, select all, open file and open a selection of files.
Skip to my Lou: how to select random files
Say No to Autosave
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Is there any keyboard shortcut or other way of navigating from your current position in a Pages doc back to the prior position--or prior three positions? In Word, Command-Alt-z does this for me--and it is extremely useful when cutting and pasting in long docs. But I cannot find a way to do this in Pages. Is there a way to do so?
ReplyDeleteSure: Command+Z (back, undo) or Command+Shift+Z (come back to where you were, redo).
ReplyDeleteRead this article (mentioned in the list above): http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/2010/08/undo-redo-shortcut-zap-to-and-fro.html
And it works in practically all other applications, including web-browsers.