Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

If you need to create printable forms that have blank spaces, you should use tab stops instead of underscore characters. Using tab stops allows you to line up blank spaces perfectly, making your forms look more professional. (Read More, 9 Replies)

In addition to some standard shapes, you can create your own custom shapes in Pages using a series of points. These custom shapes can be used to wrap text around images in creative ways. (Read More, 7 Replies)

You can use the page layout functionality in Pages to frame your photos in various ways using borders, frames, shapes and reflections. You can print these framed photos, or export them as PDF files. (Read More, 6 Replies)

If you don’t have Numbers, you can use Pages to create simple spreadsheets. Just use the tables inside Pages to create small spreadsheets that can use formulas to perform calculations. You can even sort and use basic and conditional formatting. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On todays episode [...] (Read More, 3 Replies)

Sometimes you need to place a watermark, like the word DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL, behind text in a document. You can do this using text boxes that are made into background items and then set them to appear across all pages in the document. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. [...] (Read More, 8 Replies)

Tab stops allow you to align text in word processing programs. They have been around for a while, but if you have only started using word processors recently, you may have overlooked them in favor of tables and other layout elements. Tab stops are a quick and easy way to display data neatly inside a [...] (Read More, 7 Replies)

Learn how to use Styles in iWork Pages. You can apply styles to paragraphs or characters, redefine styles already in place, and select all text that uses a specific style. Styles are an important tool for document creation in Pages. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode, [...] (Read More, 3 Replies)

You can have Pages automatically create a table of contents based on the styles you have assigned to paragraphs in your text. With a little more work you can also have the table of contents automatically insert numbers and subchapters. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode [...] (Read More, 4 Replies)

While you can’t add text or shapes to a photo in iPhoto, you can do it using either Pages or Preview. Pages allows you to add a variety of shapes and even other photos. Preview allows text and simple shapes. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary. On today's episode I want to [...] (Read More, 10 Replies)

Learn how to do basic page layout in iWork Pages. By starting with a page layout template instead of a word processing template you can easily add text blocks, titles and images. You can flow text from one box to another. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's [...] (Read More, 8 Replies)

Learn how to insert hyperlinks in Pages documents. Links can take readers to web pages, create new email messages or jump to other sections of the Pages document. The links will work in PDF and ePub files exported from Pages. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now, on today's episode [...] (Read More, 26 Replies)

You can use the Track Changes feature of Pages in iWork 09 to edit documents. Suggestions are recorded and can be accepted or rejected later. Multiple writers and editors can work on a document and all changes will be recorded along with the editor and time. Comments can also be added. Video Transcript (Click to [...] (Read More, 3 Replies)

You can share your Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents using Apple’s iWork.com service. Others can view your documents right in their browser, and make comments and notes if they are using Safari. You can even upload Keynote presentations and present right from the Safari. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi! This is Gary with MacMost [...] (Read More, 9 Replies)

In iWork Pages you can import images and manipulate them in various ways. You can resize, rotate and crop images. You can also place them inside of shapes and adjust colors. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi this is Gary with MacMost.This episode Lets look using images in iWork pages. So you probably know that [...] (Read More, No Replies)

You can use the Mail Merge feature in iWork Pages to print envelopes, letters or any document that uses different names and addresses on each page. You can get the data from your Address Book or from a Numbers spreadsheet. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now and today's episode [...] (Read More, 41 Replies)

Learn how to wrap text around images using either a one or two column layout. Find out how to use images with an alpha channel, images with a solid background, or define a shape to wrap the text around. Also, find out how to crop images. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary [...] (Read More, 5 Replies)

Pages 09 has some cool advanced features. You can easily switch to a full screen mode, hide and show areas in an outline, include charts with live calculations, export and mail documents as Word or PDF files, and create password-protected PDF files. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Todays episode lets take a look at some [...] (Read More, 5 Replies)