tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-353309792024-03-16T11:02:18.796+01:00I Work in PagesApple's iWork users look for solutions to their projects, so, because I use Pages every day, I thought I might put here a few of mine.
Only what I have tried and tested myself is published here.Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-48019979221314490572021-01-01T17:01:00.009+01:002021-01-01T17:01:52.852+01:00Happy New Year 2021!<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Drawing and painting in Pages)</span></h3><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5g2oc" data-offset-key="2v0us-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2v0us-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2v0us-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My annual New Year's card with a study after Modigliani, a Snowman and a little Robin. To add the past year's flavour I drew a few covid masks, a subject of so much debate and angst.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2v0us-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2v0us-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5g2oc" data-offset-key="28mf4-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="28mf4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="28mf4-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything here is drawn using Pages tools.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5g2oc" data-offset-key="3noe6-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3noe6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3noe6-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3noe6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3noe6-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The mask itself is a modified Polygon from the Shapes menu with a Border and an Advanced colour fill. The straps are curved lines with endpoints. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5g2oc" data-offset-key="ajddr-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ajddr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ajddr-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ajddr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ajddr-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The figures 2021 are drawn with the Pen Tool. When you click on Shapes in the Tool Bar you can see it in the top right corner. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5g2oc" data-offset-key="au4fo-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="au4fo-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="au4fo-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="au4fo-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="au4fo-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'Modigliani's' model is a combination of edited shapes with colour fills. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5g2oc" data-offset-key="1p4e9-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1p4e9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1p4e9-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1p4e9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; 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If you are used to the QWERTY layout on your keyboard but occasionally have to type in French or other languages with accents, you don't have to switch to the French AZERTY layout.<br />
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To type the grave accent, the one that goes to the left, press the Option (Alt) key and tap on the accent key to the left of the Z. Then type an 'a' and you get à the preposition instead of a the form of avoir (to have). This is good for capitals as well — À.<br />
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The same works for all other vowels. The screenshot here shows the QWERTY layout with all the keys where you can type the grave accent.<br />
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PS: I've checked this trick for Pages 8.1 version, it still works.<br />
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<i>Accent grave: </i><span class="df" role="text" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">Accent</span> qui marque le <span class="bold" style="font-weight: 600;"><span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">e</span></span> ouvert<span class="gp">. </span></span><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">L’</span><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">accent</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> grave sert aussi à </span><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">distinguer</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> des </span><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">homonymes</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> : </span><span class="bold" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px; font-weight: 600;"><span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">où</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> (adverbe) et </span><span class="bold" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px; font-weight: 600;"><span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">ou</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">(</span><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">conjonction</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">); </span><span class="bold" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px; font-weight: 600;"><span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">à</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> (préposition) et </span><span class="bold" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px; font-weight: 600;"><span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">a</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> (</span><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">verbe</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;"> </span><span class="bold" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px; font-weight: 600;"><span class="italic" style="font-style: italic;">avoir</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">)</span><span class="gp" style="font-family: -apple-system; font-size: 13.4399995803833px;">.</span></div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-40023139821709557182020-06-07T19:13:00.000+02:002020-06-07T19:13:27.767+02:00Jumping from word to word.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This little trick may be useful when you micro-edit a text. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you want to jump from word to word quickly, you don’t need to click with your moust cursor or swipe on the trackpad — and miss. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead, press Shift and tap on right/left arrows. The cursor will ‘jump’ to the next word. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Equally, you can highlight text word by word by pressing Shift and Option simultaneously. This can be useful for example, when you add hyperlinks to parts of the text.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Read my post '<a href="https://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/2010/10/shortcut-for-highlighting-text-many.html">The Many Uses of the Shift Key.</a>'</i></span></span></div>
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-67435100426657745532019-12-31T10:43:00.000+01:002020-01-07T11:47:45.588+01:00Happy New Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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All the elements in this card are made in Apple's Pages.</div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-8748029089147191972019-08-01T19:12:00.000+02:002019-08-01T21:04:30.380+02:00Clipart: telephone sign<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Update for Pages 8.1, Mac OS High Sierra.</i><br />
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The telephone symbol can be found in two ways.<br />
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In the main menu at the top of the screen, go <b>Edit > Emoji and Symbols</b>.<br />
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This opens a huge collections of various non-letter or letter-like symbols, including the beloved of the internet generation silly faces and cute animals. The telephone symbol ☎︎ is right at the bottom of the window, in the section Sign/Standard Symbols and marked ♻︎ in the speed selection panel at the bottom of the window. By clicking on the double arrow sign there you can skip from section to section without having to scroll down a very long cache of options.<br />
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Note that this works in Pages and in practically all Mac applications and browsers, including Google Chrome.<br />
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This post is an update to my previous articles on Mac clipart and various hidden places where you can find it. Click/tap on the clipart tag to read more. The previous post about the <a href="http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/2012/12/where-is-telephone-clip-art-image.html">telephone symbol is here</a>, I am going to update and link it to this.<br />
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The most recent article here described the Character Palette/Viewer. Now, in the current Mac OS (July 2019), it is replaced by Emoji and Symbols palette (viewer or window, describe it as you wish). <br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-41846757103391940432019-04-07T13:05:00.003+02:002019-04-07T13:05:53.420+02:00Blogger login problem after Google+ closure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For several days now there has been an 'endless loop' problem with logging in into Blogger.<br />
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When try to log in or go to Blogger from whatever other Google application, such as gmail, by choosing Blogger from the services menu at the top right of the browser page, it takes you to the Welcome page inviting you to create a blog or log in. When you click login it takes you back to the Welcome page.<br />
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The solution here is to go to your Google profile and 'change' your profile (displayed) name. In fact, you don't have to change it, just type it in as it is or was and click go to Blogger. Than will take you to your usual Blogger page with blog posts, stat and all the other stuff.<br />
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Here is the direct link: <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: #3c4043; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/switch-profile.g" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #1a73e8; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.blogger.com/switch-profile.g</a> </div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-14456715512563556022019-02-24T08:46:00.003+01:002019-02-24T08:46:43.633+01:00Clipart for Pages revisited. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>(update for Pages 7.3)</i></h3>
About ten years ago I published a comprehensive review of various places on your Mac where you can find clipart and clipart like images, that come pre-installed on your computer. <i>(See '<a href="http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/2008/10/clipart-for-iworkpages-where-is-it.html">Clipart for iWork/Pages where is it</a>')</i><br />
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Looking for clipart remains one of the top searches for Apple Mac users. Much of what I described in that old article still stands. Some things have changed slightly.<br />
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In fact, Apple has added some new collections of ready-made clipart. It's very easy to use, just remember where it is.<br />
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For example, instead of Character Palette, there is now a Character Viewer.<br />
To go to it, open System Preferences, choose Keyboard and click on Input Sources (that's where you add or remove additional languages that you may be using).<br />
At the bottom of the window there is a box Show Input menu in menu bar. Tick it, and the language icon, a national flag, will appear at the top of the screen.<br />
When you click on it, at the bottom you see Show emoji and symbols option. Click on it, and the Character Viewer will open.<br />
Here you will find hundreds of clipart symbols, including, yes, emoji, but also many others, animals, flags, cars, stars etc.<br />
Choose the one you want and drag it to your document.<br />
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You can also double-click it to add to your document, or — this is an additional beauty — to whatever text you are typing on the Internet, for example in a Facebook discussion or to your blog. Double-click the symbol to add it to your text. Like this, for example, 🤠.<br />
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Another hidden gem is 'image bullets'.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZLOt4u1QSKzVyOz7WZhjJoiNk6GDOeEGIcon8NztipGf-FV8Yjm3uZK91RVcvEw49purEz937Ljj-9BNwa7UZLC8HJpl8dxCrF3WOJndiEXgHi8wpNpOsLHLiASEJhQdPpY8/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-10+at+10.58.57.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="353" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZLOt4u1QSKzVyOz7WZhjJoiNk6GDOeEGIcon8NztipGf-FV8Yjm3uZK91RVcvEw49purEz937Ljj-9BNwa7UZLC8HJpl8dxCrF3WOJndiEXgHi8wpNpOsLHLiASEJhQdPpY8/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-10+at+10.58.57.png" width="198" /></a>Everyone familiar with word processing knows about lists and bullets.<br />
In Pages, open the Text Inspector (under the View menu, go to Inspector and check/tick Show Format).<br />
In the Inspector side-pane, look further down for Bullets and Lists and click on No Bullets tab to open a drop-down menu. There you will see the Image Bullets option.<br />
Click on it to show a host of attractive image bullets. They will appear at the beginning of each paragraph that you choose to have bullets.<br />
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Now, the last option there is Custom Image. If you choose it, you may add your own image, a mugshot of yourself or someone else, or an avatar, like in the Internet forums.<br />
Use it to liven up your document when you prepare role-playing games, or teacher-student discussions, or when you write a script.</div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-81784534516973224452019-02-17T13:30:00.000+01:002019-08-03T12:42:28.601+02:00Resetting display.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you use an external additional display you may encounter this frustrating problem: screen seems to go wider than the display with menus on the dges half-obscured; images are distorted (squashed) and fuzzy; everything seems out of proportion.<br />
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Restarting the machine or calibrating the display may not resolve the issue.<br />
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One simple trick not to be forgotten is resetting the display. Disconnect (unplug) it from the computer, wait for about 30 seconds and reconnect. The display comes back to its usual behaviour.<br />
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It worked for me a few times, so I thought I should share it.<br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-10095547646601948262019-02-10T14:06:00.000+01:002019-02-10T14:06:03.198+01:00Christian Fish sign. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We were talking about early Christians.<br />
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A friend, who is well-versed in Bible and Biblical stories, told me how they used the Fish sign as a secret password to recognise each other when Christianity was still considered a dangerous extremist sect and Christians were persecuted. I've always thought of it simply as a reference to the bread and fish miracle. But it turns out there's more to it.<br />
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You meet someone who you think might be one of yours. You put a dot in the sand with a big toe. The person standing opposite you would look at it and draw a curving line around the dot. You look at it and, with his foot, draw another curving line. They join up near the dot and cross at the other and, thus forming a representation of the Fish.<br />
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I decided to try it in Pages and here is what I got.<br />
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Click on the Shapes menu in the Toolbar of your document and choose the circle from the menu. Reduce it to the size of a dot. </div>
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Click on the Shapes menu in the Toolbar of your document and choose the pen tool in the top right corner. </div>
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Draw the first line by clicking in the document, then drag, let go to make the second dot, then drag again, let go and double-click on the last dot to finish the line. </div>
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Adjust the curve as you like by dragging the midpoints, they appear automatically as you hover the cursor over the line. </div>
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In the Inspector side pane make it thicker, change colour (here it is Mocha), and add shadow. </div>
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Repeat the above to draw the second line. And you get a lovely looking Fish sign. </div>
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Keep it in your document, make a screenshot or export to PDF to reuse elsewhere.</div>
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-88624376258109604522019-02-03T14:13:00.000+01:002019-02-03T14:13:11.649+01:00Mac OSX Japanese problem.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When you use several languages on your computer, there is a curious problem in OSX 10.13.6 High Sierra, that I haven’t experienced before. With Japanese as one of the languages selected as ‘input sources’, my Mac begins to behave in an unstable way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">very slow or no response to keyboard commands; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">unexpected delay in response</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and repeated keyboard strokes when non were executed by myself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes the Mac stalls completely with or without the ‘wheel of death’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is so bizarre that at first I thought I was being hacked or some virus took over my machine. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After some discussions with fellow macusers and research I found that it was not just my machine. Many others have this problem as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Apparently this issue occurs when a language which uses many accents, like French in my case, clashes with Japanese kotoeri input system (you type with Latin characters and the computer changes them into Japanese characters).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>So, the solution</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">is to remove either Japanese, or the other language from input sources. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To do that, go to System Preferences > Language & Region and click/tap on Japanese/Nihongo. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, click on the minus symbol below the languages side-panel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, restart the computer and it will come back to its usual stable behaviour.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you need Japanese rather than French, try removing French. I use Japanese only occasionally, so I can’t vouch for this. But removing Japanese has worked for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, we should wait for the Apple wiz-people to sort the problem. Ahh, well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>See <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203864">this article</a> for a slightly different description of the same problem and similar solution.</i></span></span></div>
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-71641242400104565802019-01-29T12:38:00.001+01:002019-09-16T13:02:48.286+02:00Where is my document data? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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- Click on the document icon > Command+i, or<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For me, one of the main reasons is to remember when I wrote (created it). When I work I get loads of side ideas that I want to scribble down quickly to develop later. Sometimes it’s a full sentence, sometimes just a couple of key words. Sometimes I put the words into the name of the document leaving the body itself blank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Suppose it’s a reference to a news event of the day, or a radio programme? I need the date! How do I find out? Document properties, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For some reason, the current version of Pages (7.3; <i><b>UPD 16 Sept 2019</b>: this trick works in Pages 8.1</i>)) doesn’t make it as easy as it used to be. In older version you could look up the Pages document under the File menu. Now it’s no longer there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So, where do we find data on our Pages document? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Close the document, click or tap on it once in Finder or in the folder where you keep it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Press Command and type i (letter i for ‘information’). The old-style Inspector window will open showing you lots of information about your document, including the day it was created and when it was opened and modified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">After selecting (clicking once your file) you can also go to the File menu in Finder and select Get Info.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And a third, even smarter for some, way of opening that window is to Control-click the Pages doc, which opens a pop-up menu with a Get Info option right over the file icon. </span></div>
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-86591637693098320292019-01-04T12:16:00.002+01:002019-01-04T12:16:36.363+01:00Saving photos in Pages documents — and extracting them back.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a while, but only recently I realised that I often put photos in Pages documents to save them for use later in a project or to keep text and illustrations together.<br />
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And it makes sense. You can only put very brief description of the photo in the name of the file, but in a text document you can give it a full description, place it in a context, format and edit it. And still keep it in the full original beauty.<br />
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One stumbling block that I encountered years ago when I started using Pages was how to get the photo back from the document if for some reason you want it back as a separate file. There is a simple trick that isn't obvious unless you know it.<br />
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In the Pages document click on photo to select it.<br />
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In the Inspector side-panel click on Image. You will see a small icon with the name of the file.<br />
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Click on the icon and hold.<br />
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Drag it to the Desktop — that's it, that will be the original photo file.<br />
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Now you can share it, use with a different document, upload it to the Internet etc.<br />
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(If you can't see the side-panel, go to the View menu, slide down to Inspector and choose Show Inspector).<br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-24128846280331696822018-12-30T17:11:00.002+01:002018-12-30T17:11:35.295+01:00New Year Greetings, a card.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy New Year to all I Work in Pages readers!<br />
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It took me less than an hour to draw this card almost entirely with Pages Draw Pen (you can see it in the top right corner of the Shapes menu in the current Pages version (7.3). The Robin on Snowman's hand is from my previous design. The handle of the bucket is a line with end-points.<br />
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Enjoy graphic design in Pages!<br />
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This image shows all the separate elements highlighted:<br />
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And here you can see the Snowman's body with the dots I used when drawing him:<br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-76084622676706360192018-12-01T00:10:00.000+01:002018-12-01T00:10:19.399+01:00Red Ribbon for the International AIDS Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-79328865499333627952018-11-28T12:09:00.000+01:002018-11-28T12:19:56.344+01:00Word Count Revisited — Pages 7.2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For word (character) count, go to the View Menu and slide down to Show/Hide word character count. It will appear at the bottom left corner of your document in Pages.<br />
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The current version of Pages (7.2) allows you to select easily a word, character lines or paragraphs count. Just click/tap on the drop-down menu there and select what you need.<br />
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Readers of this blog often ask how to subtract the endnotes or footnotes from the overall word count.<br />
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This is fairly easy: press the Command key (next to the Space bar) and tap A. This highlights the whole of the text but leaves out the footnotes. Note the word count and click/tap away. That's it!<br />
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The screenshot below shows a character count of the thesis I am currently working on without the footnotes.<br />
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See also <a href="http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-subtract-footnotesendnotes-from.html">this post</a> on the same subject, and enjoy Pages!</div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-75174953118664765462018-11-02T15:48:00.000+01:002018-11-03T09:42:11.850+01:00Eve. Advanced Drawing with Pages.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the years, I've posted here many times on the hidden gem, i.e. little known powerful set of design tools in Pages. In many ways it is no less sophisticated than similar Adobe applications but incredibly easy to master — and a pleasure to use. Some may even find it therapeutic, a respite from your usual work. Try, for example, to design a family or a company logo or even copy a famous picture.<br />
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As Apple updated Pages, menus, tools, and shortcuts have evolved and changed. However the basic principles of drawing with Pages tools remain the same in the current version of Pages. The main tool you would want to use is the 'Pen Tool', or draw tool. In the current version, Pages 7.2, October 2018, you will find it at the top right of the Shapes menu <i>(see screenshot at the end of this post)</i>. Click on it and begin to draw shapes, lines, modify them, give them colour, and combine several shapes to create your own original image.<br />
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Here is a detail from 'Eve', a famous print by Eric Gill (1926). <i>(I am not publishing here the full version to comply with Google's advertising rules, but you can see it on my other blog, <a href="https://readingart.blogspot.com/2018/11/eve-after-eric-gill.html">'Reading Art', here.</a> You can support both, I Work in Pages and Reading Art, by donating via PayPal, click the button at top right of the blog.) </i><br />
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This image is made entirely of lines and shapes created in a Pages document. See below for more explanations.<br />
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In the image below I've selected a hair on the woman's head. Note: it is a shape, not a line. To draw it, you need to click several time with the drawing pen and double click at the end of the shape. Then curve it, give it colour (here, it is Tin from the crayon box), move it around, drag to shorten or elongate. Repeat to create more. Zoom in when you work on small details of the picture.<br />
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This next image below shows the same detail but with a different hair selected. Now, this is a line. It may be easier to draw: from the shapes menu you select 'Line' rather than Drawing Pen, and then modify it. However, it gives you fewer options when you want to change style, curvature or other features. Working with the drawing pen may be more fiddly but allows you more creative space.<br />
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Visit Reading Art blog <a href="https://readingart.blogspot.com/2018/11/eve-after-eric-gill.html">to see the full image,</a> and you can see the original print on Wikipedia/Wikimedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill#/media/File:Eric_Gill_-_Eve_(1929).jpg">here</a>. </div>
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-49763823335253559642018-03-04T12:36:00.001+01:002018-03-04T12:37:56.795+01:00Apple has a problem.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the annoying and occasionally confusing aspects of working on a Mac, or any other Apple device for that matter, is their language. They often turn out phrases that seem to put blame on you, the user, or seem to alert you to a 'problem' that is not a problem at all but simply a signal to take a certain step to carry on with what you're doing.<br />
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There is no problem. No problem with you. It's Apple who has a problem with their language.<br />
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This is a message that comes up when you start up your Mac. Here there is no problem with your iCloud or your gmail account. You don't need to fix this problem. </div>
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-64990705248076682612017-12-31T14:42:00.000+01:002017-12-31T14:42:06.337+01:00Happy New Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy New Year to all readers of I Work in Pages!<br />
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See previous years' Snowmen and Robins at <a href="https://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.fr/search?q=snowman">this link</a>. Includes tutorials, tips and videos. Some menus and tools may be different in the current Pages version (6.3.1) but the basic principles remain the same and still work. </div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-30840881495167458522017-10-05T16:51:00.000+02:002019-08-03T12:56:37.311+02:00Drag and Drop Images Straight from the Browser.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This post is to draw attention of Pages users to a simple trick with downloading images from the Internet: click on an image in your browser, hold and drag it straight into an open Pages document.<br />
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When 'caught' the image will 'lift off' the web page and show a white + sign in green circle and a black arrow.<br />
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Drag and hover over the Pages document and let got. The image will land into the document.<br />
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I wrote about this trick <a href="http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.fr/2011/09/drag-and-drop-images-straight-from.html">in a 2011post</a> and it still works in the current Pages 6.3 version. It saves time and space on your hard disc. You don't need to store all images in Photos (library), they just as well sit comfortably in Pages, and <a href="http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.fr/2016/12/how-to-extract-photos-from-pages.html">can be extracted</a> easily when needed as a separate graphic file.<br />
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Remember to check the copyright status of the image.<br />
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<i>note technique pour des lecteurs français: drag and drop est glisser-déposer.</i></div>
Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-3625686061211284092017-09-28T17:01:00.000+02:002017-09-28T17:01:27.488+02:00I want to see it in Word! Exporting-importing Pages documents.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A welcome feature in current Mac OS (El Capitan, Sierra) is that by default Word documents sent to you are opened in Pages. You don't need to concern yourself at all with Word when you are on the receiving end of work.<br />
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When you send out your document to someone who wants to see it in Word export it via<br />
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When the dialogue window opens you have an option of either converting the Pages document to .docx format or to an older version of Word. Click on Advanced options tab and choose a previous version of Word to have a .doc format file.<br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-82535920414940479722017-08-29T14:12:00.001+02:002017-08-29T14:12:47.203+02:00Indexing and Bookmarking in Pages 6.2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you work on a long document with Contents section or create a linked Index at the end of it, you may want have jumplinks in your document. So that, for example, you can click on a chapter title in Contents and go straight to the body of the chapter from there. Equally, you may want to click on a word, a name or a phrase in the Index and got straight to it in the main body of the text. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is how to create such jumplinks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Highlight the title of the chapter. Like in the first picture. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPlcybe9U1vN9TN1WFHGnandHr_Gq0TxKB0O10DLNUIrmqJ5XDYKefGoiAegdCMST2nsev9-xZyW7q5avlbaVuYnSqRzQd2pafeD4V926lzqYLj-VpcqstJ1-uVMwE_mrrRi_q/s1600/2+Screen+Shot+2017-08-27+at+12.52.26.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="301" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPlcybe9U1vN9TN1WFHGnandHr_Gq0TxKB0O10DLNUIrmqJ5XDYKefGoiAegdCMST2nsev9-xZyW7q5avlbaVuYnSqRzQd2pafeD4V926lzqYLj-VpcqstJ1-uVMwE_mrrRi_q/s200/2+Screen+Shot+2017-08-27+at+12.52.26.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. In the Toolbar, (row of icons at the top of a Pages document), click on Document and then, in the side pane, on Bookmarks. Click on Add Bookmark. The highlighted text becomes a bookmark and shows in the Document>Bookmarks pane. <b>TIP</b>: if the Toolbar doesn't show at the top of the <b>document</b>, go to the View menu at the top of the <b>screen </b>and choose 'Show Toolbar'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Go back (scroll) to Contents, highlight the title of the chapter there. Then either go to the main Pages menu and choose <b>Format > Add Link > Bookmark, </b>or click in Insert icon ini the document Toolbar and go to <b>Link > Bookmark. TIP: </b>do not highlight the paragraph by clicking three times, for some reason it doesn't work; only highlight by dragging the cursor over the words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. A small dialogue window will appear (see picture bottom right). In the </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Link to</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> line, click on the arrowed tab to open a drop-down menu and choose </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Bookmark</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">. In the </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Bookmark</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> line, again click on the drop-down menu with a list of already created bookmarks and choose the one you want. To test, click on Go to Bookmark, and the document will scroll down to the chapter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next time you want to jump from Contents straight to the required chapter, click on the title in contents and Go to Bookmark in the dialogue window.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdYH36P6HVyZuieInSg8uLnt2qy0M4KaD72RWJniStK0ZKYQbJ9XJ-x42DiScZjv4mw88Bo1YR1jpadTXo_bKszRVVI2BEPr5VceKwIajBhz4F0nAXuZUxBCnJCBpeCx6LR87/s1600/4+Screen+Shot+2017-08-27+at+14.16.06.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="333" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdYH36P6HVyZuieInSg8uLnt2qy0M4KaD72RWJniStK0ZKYQbJ9XJ-x42DiScZjv4mw88Bo1YR1jpadTXo_bKszRVVI2BEPr5VceKwIajBhz4F0nAXuZUxBCnJCBpeCx6LR87/s200/4+Screen+Shot+2017-08-27+at+14.16.06.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, contents or index can be at the end of the document, the process remains the same. You can use it to create multiple links to a particular word or phrase in the document.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For example, if you study a literary work or a historical document, you can create jumplinks to every mention of a particular character, place, expression or term. This will work in the same way as Search and Find Function, but the added benefit here is that you can create jumplinks from index with your notes or comments to the relevant place in the body of the document. Unlike Search and Find they will stay with the document.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-29269895517697601172017-07-20T14:29:00.001+02:002017-08-29T13:12:59.962+02:00Pages 6.2. The Shapes Library.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>See this and other photos of Normandy<br />on my <a href="https://normandy-photo.blogspot.fr/">photo blog</a>.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apple’s new version of Pages 6.2 released this Summer has, among other new features, a large shapes library.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lovers of clipart often complained that there wasn’t enough of it on a Mac. So, here you are with several hundred predrawn clipart-like shapes, or images ready to use or modify.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Make sure your Pages document is set to show the Toolbar. If it isn’t go View > Show Toolbar. In the Toobar click/tap on the green rectangle and the library opens with the basic shapes first, including the powerful but often undervalued Draw tool. Then we have a collection of shapes grouped by topics — objects, nature, animals, business etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They are ok to use as they are. Select one, click on it and it will appear in your document.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, if you want something more eye-grabbing there are many ways to modify the preset shapes. One of the easiest ones is Image Fill — putting an image (a photo) inside the shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is how it works.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s go to Symbols section and get a ‘credit card' shape. It looks like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Drag one of the editing points (little squares seen when the shape is selected) to enlarge the shape.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. In the Inspector Pane, click on Style. Here you have a selection of different colours for your shape, but go further down to the Fill section, click on the tab under Fill to open the menu and select Image Fill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Now, below you can click on Choose and select a favourite image from Desktop. Click on it to select and then click Open to put it inside the credit card shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another option is to go to your Photos collection. Click on the Photos icon in the Dock to launch the programme. When it opens find a photo you want to go on the credit card and drag it straight from the Photos onto the credit card shape in the Pages document.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> Here, I've used my photo of a field of wheat with red poppies (©A.Anichkin, 2017).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Switch from Photos to Pages and resize the photo by dragging the Scale slider that shows up after the image is imported.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reposition the photo inside the credit card by clicking and holding on it. When the little white hand appears drag the photo inside the card until you are satisfied.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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Alexander Anichkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08716415983965000292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35330979.post-42881268101893851292017-07-19T18:34:00.001+02:002017-07-20T12:52:39.707+02:00How to reset the wireless keyboard (and what for)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">With wireless keyboard, sometimes things go haywire. Characters appear on the screen very slowly, or switch to repeat with no apparent reason.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">First time it happened to me I tried restarting the computer, switching it off and on again. I tried safe boot. Nothing worked!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Don’t panic, usually it has nothing to do with your computer. Simply, the keyboard itself needed resetting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Unscrew the battery compartment on the left of the keyboard and slide the batteries out.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Slide them back in again and screw in the cover. It can be done with a screwdriver or a coin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Switch the keyboard on by pressing the button on the right. A green led light will appear to the top right of the keyboard. In a few second the computer will find the keyboard and reconnect with it. A ‘keyboard reconnected’ sign will appear on the screen and things will go back to normal.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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A few years ago I wrote a post with <a href="http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.fr/2011/06/how-to-add-accents-to-letters-without.html">tips on using various accents</a> (diacritical marks) on the English QWERTY keyboard without switching languages, which can be a distraction if not real pain.<br />
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One mark that I missed was <i>accent grave, </i> i.e. the accent in French that goes upwards and to the right.<br />
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To type it, press the Option (alt) key and type accent grave key, the one to the left of Z on the QWERTY layout. You will see the (sometimes) yellowed accent grave. Type the letter you want with this accent — and it's done.<br />
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In French, the presence or absence of this accent can make a huge difference. When you mean 'where to' it's à; when you mean 'have' or 'had' it's a without the accent. When you mean 'or' as in either or, it's ou, but when you mean 'where' [is it], it's où.<br />
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Mind your French, folks!<br />
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Other accents still work the same as described in my old post.</div>
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