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CHAPTER 17 iWORK ‘08
Figure 17-3. A document open in Pages ’08 Word Processing mode
Besides great word processing capabilities, Pages ’08 also has a Page Layout mode (Figure
17-4) for more creative documents such as newsletters and flyers. In Page Layout mode, text
must explicitly be placed in text boxes that can be sized and formatted individually on your document.
In Pages ’08, text boxes can be linked so that overflow text from one text box can flow
directly into another.
Just like many applications, Pages ’08 provides a number of templates to start from,
depending on the type of document you want to create. The different templates are divided into
word processing documents and page layout documents and further divided into other groups
(newsletters, letters, resumes, and so on).
NOTE The primary difference between Word Processing mode and Page Layout mode is that
in Word Processing mode the entire editable page area (as defined by the margins) is essentially
a large text field ready for typing that flows from one page to the next. In Page Layout
mode, you must create text boxes before you can start adding text, and text boxes will flow
only as you dictate. Text boxes and images can easily be added in Word Processing mode,
while page-sized text fields can be added in Page Layout mode. In a way, they can both
accomplish the same things, but one mode puts text ahead of design, while the other puts
design ahead of text.