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Mac Pages: Mastering the Word Processing and Publishing App

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About Mac Pages: Mastering the Word Processing and Publishing App

Introduction to Pages

What you'll need

Using the exercise files

Basics: Get familiar with the layout

File Extensions

Open, edit, save and closing documents

Different views

Customising the toolbar

Understanding Document setup

Understanding Document setup 2

Adding and rearranging pages

Document Metadata

Two pages View

Paragraph and Character formatting

Creating character styles

Special characters

Hidden characters in your keyboard

Ligatures and Hyphenation

Using indents

Indents and Tab stops

Bullets and Lists

Spelling and grammar checker

Find and Replace words

Autocorrection and substitutions

Writing fractions

Overview of Styles

Overriding and saving styles

Creating styles

Rename, delete and Share styles

Assigning Shortcut to styles

Pagination and Brakes

Headers and Footers

Using Columns

Auto updated fields

Using Section and Page Breaks

Creating Footnotes

Table of Content

Inserting Column breaks

Navigate quickly across pages

A Brief look at templates

Changing images

Replacing text

Moving and editing text boxes

Creating templates

Manage custom templates

Adding and removing elements

Adding images

Set transparency to images

Adjust images

Change Image Styles

Adding and combine shapes

Make shapes editable

Saving custom shapes

Use the pen tool

Add photos directly from your phone

Add text boxes

Image gallery

Linking text boxes

Working in Page Layout mode

Adding text and images Part 1

Adding text and images Part 2

Adding text and images Part 3

Adding text and images Part 4

Using Master pages

Saving as Template

Reapply Master pages

Add alignment guides

Adding colours and images in backgrounds

New ways to style text

New ways to style text Part 2

Record audio directly in the page

Text to audio speech

Adding Videos

Adding hyperlinks

Class Project - Home Assignment

Adding tables

Changing Rows and columns size

Rearranging rows and columns

Formating data

Adding calculations

Adding a chart

Enter chart data

Using more data in charts

Copy, Paste Pages and Sections

Export as PDF

Printing your document

Exporting as Word

Exporting as ePub

Offer your book to download or Purchase

Reducing size of documents

Collaborating with Track changes

Improve Pages Performance

Collaboration

Wrapping up and What's Next?

What You Will Learn?

  • Pages is simply the perfect word-processing tool for Mac users.
  • Learn everything that you need to know about word-processing and publishing with Pages.This Master course in Pages will guide you through step-by-step from creating a document from scratch to a gorgeous looking document you can be proud of..
  • You have access to 100 lectures spread in a little over 6-hour content that will take you from zero to hero!This course is designed for beginners and intermediate users in mind. And yes, there are advanced features that we will cover as well..
  • We will update the course, especially with custom video requests from our students, so you are never left alone in your journey to master Pages..
  • Create professionally looking documents in minutes.You can start from one of the beautiful templates or start from a blank document and design it yourself..
  • • Format your document with gorgeous styles, fonts and enhance it with over 700 editable shapes
• Add easily images, videos and audios to make your documents more interactive
• Create interactive ePub books to share or sell to Apple Books
• Get access to shapes, tables, charts and other media directly into your pages
• Choose from over 70 pre-designed templates to create beautiful reports, digital books CV’s, brochures, Cards, Posters and more
• Import and edit Microsoft Word directly once opened.
Pages isn't just a simple word processing software...here's why:• Turn on change tracking to mark up a document as you edit it• Add bookmarks to easily link from one part of your document to another• View pages side by side as you work• Create master pages to keep the design consistent across your page layout document• Add linked text boxes so text easily flows from one place to another• Create footnotes and endnotes and view word counts• Use the table of contents view to easily navigate your document or book• Add comments and join threaded conversations• Turn on facing pages to format your document as two-page spreads• Use powerful graphics tools including Instant Alpha and masking• Add elegant mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation• Seamless integration with MathType* and EndNote* for inserting equations and citations
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  • Share your documents in a breeze.• iCloud allows you to keep your documents always up to date across all your devices and with the new Collaboration tool you and your team will be able to work on a document at the same time… whether they have a Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or a PC.
• When you Turn on iCloud your documents are automatically available on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and iCloud dot com
You can access and edit your documents from a Mac or PC browser at iCloud dot com with Pages for iCloud
• Pages automatically saves your documents as you make changes
• Quickly send a link to your document via Mail, Messenger, Twitter and Facebook
• Export your work as Microsoft Word, PDF, ePub and more
• Print wirelessly with AirPrint, including page range selection, number of copies and two-sided printing
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  • Enrol today!.
  • I cant wait to see you inside!Fran.