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[. . . ] Pages User's Guide K Apple Computer, Inc. © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Apple. Your rights to the software are governed by the accompanying software license agreement. The Apple logo is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. , registered in the U. S. [. . . ] You can lay out text in up to ten columns, adjusting relative column size and the spacing between columns. To create one to four columns of equal width: m Click Columns in the toolbar and select the number of columns you want, up to four. If the Columns button isn't in the toolbar, or if you want more than four columns, you must use the Layout Inspector. You must also use the Layout Inspector if you want to make columns with unequal widths. 92 Chapter 5 Formatting a Document's Layout and Table of Contents To create more than four columns: 1 Choose View > Show Inspector (or click Inspector in the toolbar) and then click the Layout Inspector button. 4 To resize the columns: a Select the checkbox labeled "Equal column width" . b Select a column or gutter width in the table and type a new value, using the units of the document rulers. The Layout Inspector button Set the number of columns. Set the space between the current layout and the preceding and following layouts. Start the current layout at the top of a page. Once you have created the number of columns you want, you can resize them on the fly using the document rulers, rather than entering column and gutter width values in the Layout Inspector. Chapter 5 Formatting a Document's Layout and Table of Contents 93 To adjust column widths using the rulers: m Drag the left or right edges of the gray gutter areas just below the horizontal ruler. The gray areas denote the column gutters. The white areas below the ruler denote the text area within columns. Varying Column and Page Layout You can use column and layout breaks to create different text layouts on a page. Column breaks end the text flow in one column (leaving the rest of the column blank) and continue it in the next. Layout breaks end one layout and start a new one with a different number of columns, different column margins, or blank space before or after the layout. Using column breaks or layout breaks does not affect the headers, footers, page numbering, or other formatting features specific to the document or section. (To read about section formatting features, see "Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks" on page 99. ) You can apply the formatting features described here to both single-column layouts and multi-column layouts. To create a column break: 1 Place the cursor after the word where you want to end the text flow. The text breaks where your cursor was inserted and continues in the next text column. If you insert a column break in a single-column layout, the text continues at the top of the next page. When you show invisible formatting characters in your document, a column break symbol appears like this: 94 Chapter 5 Formatting a Document's Layout and Table of Contents To change the number of columns: 1 Place the insertion point after the word where you want to end the current number of columns and change to a new layout. A layout break is inserted and the insertion point is moved to the top of the next layout. When you show invisibles in your document, a layout break symbol appears like this: 3 Set the number of columns you want, and format them, in the Layout pane of the Layout Inspector. To change the layout margins of columns: 1 Choose View > Show Inspector (or click Inspector in the toolbar) and then click the Layout Inspector button. 3 To change the outside margins of the column layout, enter values in the Left and Right fields under Layout Margins. 4 To create space above and below the current column layout, enter values in the Before and After fields under Layout Margins. Note: The new margins cannot extend outside the page margins set for the document. [. . . ] To see the paragraph break character as you work, choose View > Show Invisibles. To remove placeholder text: m Select it and press Delete. Creating Placeholder Graphics Placeholder graphics make it easy for you to size and position graphics correctly by simply dragging them onto the placeholders you have created. To create a placeholder graphic: 1 Place and size a placeholder image on the page (it might be a shaded box with instructional text, for example). 2 Select the image and choose Format > Advanced > Define as Image Placeholder. [. . . ]