That roaring laughter you detect is floating in from the environs of Memphis . . . it's ABD enjoying RHKiii's joke (at my expense
) . . . and doing so . .. uhmmm . . . immensely.
Essentially, everything I know about Pages '08 (excepting the
MOST intuitive elementary actions) I learned from the clear eye and steady hand of Capt. Airbusdriver.
I've now used it for six issues of the newsletter which I publish for the Friends of the Millbrae Library. And each time I use it I genuinely love it . . . more.
But, like you, Peter, there were more than a few bumps in that road that abolutely drive me krazy, until ABD swooped in (well,
ambled) with the solution(s). Of course, I'm
much younger than are you, so perhaps that made a difference! (What? A couple of years doesn't count?}
So, that's what the
Ho, Ho, Ho's are all about that you're hearing, wafting in from the Colonies!
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When I am inserting a cropped jpeg into a story, I choose (in the WRAP) subsection of Inspector the following alternatives:
- Object Placement: (Floating doesn't move w/text)
- Object Causes Wrap: Select 2d button from the left = wrap text around object
- Text Fit: choose right-hand icon and insert text size + alpha value
Best thing I discovered about Pages was once you get a "story" inserted into a Text Box on your copy layout, you (or your cat) can fool around with it until it's juuuust-right – w/o have anything etched-in-stone.
It's very forgiving.
I told Jim after putting together the Summer edition in < an hour, that I thought that compared rather favorably with day-and-a-half "required" for the first edition I did with Pages '06 a year and a half or so ago.
