This is the third and last post about hacks in Apple’s Pages I needed to make use of when I wrote my term paper. Well, this time you cannot really talk about a “Hack” – it’s more a short How-to for anyone having this question/issue.

3. Unnumbered items in the Table of Contents
In my document, I had to add a chapter for attachments. This was of course no issue. However, it looked quite crappy inside the TOC (Table of Contents). Therefore I decided to leave away the numeration for the attachments in my TOC. And this is how I did it:

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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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Heute hat sich eine Gelegenheit ergeben, den neuen Dienst von Apple, iWork.com, zu testen. Bis jetzt bin ich absolut beeindruckt von diesem Service!

Ganz im Apple-stil ist die Handhabung intuitiv und simpel – und funktioniert auf den ersten Versuch! Man wählt einfach im Programm die Aktion “Über iWork.com bereitstellen…”, füllt die nötigen Felder ein und startet den Upload. Anschliessend erhalten alle eingetragenen Personen eine E-Mail mit dem Zugangslink – man selber wird ebenfalls per E-Mail über den erfolgreichen Versand benachrichtigt.

Update: Screenshot der unterstützen Browser für iWork.com ergänzt.

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Today Apple held its annual Keynote at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. I followed the show by one of the several Text Feeds available on the net during each Keynote, Macprime.ch was my choice.

The first several minutes excited me quite a lot – it was about iLife ‘09, especially about iPhoto. The rest of the show was quite interesting and typical Apple-like too, I even got those classic Keynote-watching-feelings even if I could just read some informative texts every several minutes.

However, here is my personal review about the new products and only in reference to the text stream I followed:

Update: for those who have not already noticed – the Keynote record is officially available from the Apple website.

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