Hi Ezzie, The header section is where you put anything you want at the top of the page, especially recurring text such as your last name. This is a great place for your name and it is where the page number will go. Footers are for things like footnotes.
Add page numbers by going into Insert on the menu bar and selecting auto page numbers. This will open a dialogue that lets you specify where you want the page numbers. Add your name to the header section and you should have what you want. Pages generally copies whatever you put into the first header and puts the same on subsequent headers. This can be helpful or unhelpful, depending on what you need. As for other formatting, you can access most things through the inspector dialogue, which you pull up with CMD+Option+I. I would suggest searching the archives of this list for more info. There several good threads on formatting in pages. HTH, Greg On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:59 PM, ezzie bueno wrote: > Hello List, > > I hope that you're lll having a fantastic weekend. > I will be writing a paper on my Mac for the first time. I previously used > Office to accomplish assgnments. > I need you to please help me navigate through formatting my paper on pages. > Some of my future papers will require the MLA format, in which I must have my > last name on each page followed by the corresponding page number. How > exactly do I go about setting that up, along with margins, font and spacing? > Also, do I use the header section of the document to write my name, date, > title, etc.? What exactly goes in the footer section? > > Thanks, > > Ezzie Bueno > Sent from my BrailleNote Apex > Skype: sillyez > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sillyez > Google Talk: sill...@sillyez.com > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sillyez > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
