Seems like Word has a much easier way to accomplish this than Pages. I switched to Pages because I was tired of the formatting bar and flaws in Word but now I'm finding that Pages has it's own slew of problems.ĮDIT: managed to find out how to fix the page numbering problem, why a 'section break' is necessary instead of a 'page break' is beyond me.
I turned 'view formatting' on which put a tiny amount of gray around the page but I don't really want to see the black boxes all over my pages.
In Pages, the page is still stuck to the left side of the window, which is an eye-sore in my opinion. A drop-down menu opens up, and the section breaks options are at the bottom. In the Page Setup section, locate the Breaks button and click or tap on it. Click or tap the Layout tab on the ribbon. How do you number pages but start the numbering on, say, the second page? I can get it to omit the page number from the first page (my title page for a research paper) but no matter what I do the first page is still labeled '2.' I want the first page of my document to be labeled '1.' In Word there is an option for this sort of thing, but I can't find an equivalent in Pages.Īlso, is there any way to break the page away from the left side of the window? In Word, when you expand the window, it centers the page in the window. First, make sure you position the cursor in the document, in the place where you want to start a new section.
