This is something you have to do manually. It will not automatically create text boxes for you and move your text into those boxes. When you ultimately do perform a conversion from Word Processing mode to Page Layout mode, any text you had typed directly onto a page will disappear. It's probably worth doing some experiments with this to understand how it works before attempting to convert a document you care about (make a backup before you make any changes). You must drop a text box onto the page and then you can type inside the text box. if you create a new blank document, switch it to Page Layout mode, and then try to type. in Page Layout mode, you cannot apply text directly onto a page.
This is true wether you are moving it to a new location within the same document, or copying it to a completely different document (assuming the destination document is also using Page Layout mode.)īefore you do this, beware the danger. If you move a page, the whole page and everything on it moves along with it and everything is exactly as you placed. but the advantage is that things go exactly where you want them.Īlso, in Page Layout mode, each page is a discrete thing. You do a little more setup to use Page Layout mode because you have to manually create and size your text frames where you want them.
When a text frame is full, text automatically flows into and continues in the next text frame (provided you linked it to the same article). but you link text frames together if they all belong to the same article in the publication. You manually added pages as needed and add more text frames as needed. If you run out of space, the frame will not automatically grow nor will new pages automatically get created. Instead you create a text frame and place it on the page and type only within the frame. In this mode, you don't type directly onto a page. where you have multiple articles and an article might start on one page, but finish on a later page - even with other articles interspersed between them.
Pages has a two major modes of operation. This means the precise instructions might be a little different, but Pages 8.1 does support these features (even if the menus or wording might be a little different). I am on Pages 10.1 and no longer have access to anything that still has v8.1.