Apple iWork '08 User Manual
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Chapter 1
Getting Started with Pages
Step 1:
Create a New Document and Choose a Template
Templates are documents with placeholder content and formatting options—such as
font styles and margins—already set up for you, so that you can focus on your content
instead of design.
Pages provides two kinds of templates:
 Word Processing templates are best suited for text-intensive documents, such as
letters and reports.
 Page Layout templates are most useful for documents that feature graphics and are
more layout intensive, such as newsletters and flyers.
You complete most tasks exactly the same way in both kinds of documents. This
tutorial first takes you through the steps for creating a word processing document and
then presents the basics of page layout documents. For more information about the
differences between the two kinds of documents, see “Working with Page Layout
To create a new document:
1
Do one of the following:
 If Pages is open, choose File > New.
 If Pages isn’t open, open it (click its icon in the Dock or double-click its icon in the
iWork ’08 folder inside the Applications folder).
2
In the Template Chooser that appears, click a template category on the left, click a
template on the right, and then click Choose.