This is the second post about a hack in Apple’s Pages I needed to make use of when I wrote my term paper.

2. Insert pages at landscape format
Sometimes you wish to add a page to your text document, that is not in portrait as all the other pages, but in landscape format. For example if you want to integrate a wide table or a big image.

Unforunately, Pages does not allow this “page flip” inside a document. You can only decide to flip all pages to the desired paper format. However, there is a way to get around this.

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I was very busy writing a term paper for my study for the degree in information technology & economics recently. I decided writing the paper with Apple’s Pages (Apple’s word processor within their iWork suite) – and what I do not regret. The document simply looks fabulous!

However, you still notice that the application is young, compared for example to Microsoft’s Office Word.  Thus it lacks some features that you might deal with when using it extensivly. I am going to document a few of such missing features and the hacks I used to get around them in a short blog-post series.

1. The mess with numeration of sub-indexes and headings

Pages is not yet able to handle sub-indexes separately to the main heading index. The problem is, that the following headings will continue with the last sub-indexe’s number, instead to continue where the last main heading’s numeration stopped.
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