Apple iWork '08 - Manual (Page 44)

44 Chapter 1 Getting Started with Pages
The main differences between word processing and page layout documents are the
following:
 Adding text. You can type text directly on a word processing document. In a page
layout document, you can type text only in a text box. The templates include text
boxes, and you can easily add your own.
 Adding pages. In a word processing document, when you type more text than fits
on a page, a new page is automatically added. In page layout documents, new pages
aren’t added automatically, but it’s easy to add new pages (as described below).
In a page layout document, when you type more text than fits in a text box, you can
create a new text box and link the two boxes together (as described below).
Note: You can add and link text boxes in word processing documents, too.
 Reordering pages. In a page layout document, each page is a discrete unit and you
can easily reorder pages. In a word processing document, you rearrange content by
copying and pasting, or by rearranging entire document sections. (For more
information about sections, see Pages Help or the Pages User’s Guide.)
 Adding objects. You can add floating and inline objects to page layout documents,
but you can’t change an object from one kind to the other. Any object you add to a
Page Layout template is a floating object, unless you insert the object within text.