Hi, Further to Erik’s comments, the Blank template that you’ve chosen is the correct one. In Pages Preferences, you can set Pages to automatically have this as your default document upon startup. For me, at least, when starting Pages, when the blank document comes up, VO is focused on the Body Text of the document and one can simply start typing. If that’s not the case for you, then you can interact with the Document Layout area where you’ll note Header and Footer text fields and a Body text field. The Body one is the field you wish to use. You can use VO-j to jump over to the Formatter area if you need to set formatting options. Simple formatting like Bold, Italics etc can be easily set using keyboard shortcuts like cmd-b or cmd-i. If your version is not allowing you into the Body text area, then you’ve either a very old version of Pages or it is just not focused on the necessary area of the document.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 18, 2015, at 08:14, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: Hi Krister. First, let me say that you can export to word formats in textedit just fine. To do this, make a new rich text document using command N followed by command shift T. When you save your file, simply add the .doc or .docx extension and it will open properly in word. If you stull need the extra features of pages or you just want the piece of mind of using a pages to word converter, here are some tips that may help you. Pages is very cluttered. To get to an edit box where you can compose a document, you have to interact with first the layout area, and then the body field. To make formatting changes, you then have to stop interacting with everything, go over to the formatter group, and interact with that. It's very tedious. Fortunately, all of the formattting keyboard commands you know and love from pages are still here. I hope this helps get you started. Erik Burggraaf On Mar 18, 2015, at 4:36 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com <mailto:kris...@kristersplace.com>> wrote: > Hi, > Ok, i am now trying to use Pages to write an article that someone wants by > sunday and the reason for me using Pages is simply that it can convert to > word format in some way. I have a problem though: I want to start from a > blank page template, i don’t want place holders or graphics that i don’t see > and thus can’t erase or something like that. However when i try doing this, > that is start with a blank page template what i get is a blank page, > logically enough, but that means nowhere to place text nor anything. In other > word processors, when i want a blank page template an empty page with an edit > box for typing comes up, not so in Pages, the whole page is blank and not > even a text box is there for typing into. My probably stupid question now is > how on earth do i get a page that’s blank with an edit box to type into like > in other word processors so that i can start typing right away rather than > constructing my own layout, something that’s way way way way over my stupid > head? > Thanks, > /Krister > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
