Apple Pages '08 User Manual
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Chapter 5
Working with Text
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The new text box has a solid blue square on its left side. This indicates that this text box
is linked to a previous one.
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To link selected text boxes, Command-click to select the text boxes you want to link,
and then choose Format > Text Box > Link Selected Text Boxes. The text boxes are
linked in the order in which you selected them.
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To break the connection between linked text boxes, choose Format > Text Box > “Break
Connection into Text Box,” or choose Format > Text Box > “Break Connection out of
Text Box.”
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To hide connection lines between text boxes, choose Format > Text Box > Hide
Connection Lines. To display connection lines between text boxes, choose Format >
Text Box > Show Connection Lines.
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To reposition the text boxes, select and drag them. The flow of the text inside the
boxes always follows the order in which the boxes were created, regardless of where
you position them in the document.
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To copy and paste linked text boxes, select all of them, choose Edit > Copy, and choose
Edit > Paste without deselecting the original text boxes. The copy is pasted directly
over the original text boxes and is selected. Drag the selected copy to its new location.
If you copy and paste a single linked box, you will create a single unlinked text box,
identical to the one you copied.
If a single table flows through linked text boxes, you must copy or duplicate the first
text box in which the table appears in order to copy the table as well.
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To select only the text in all the linked text boxes, select text in the first box, and then
press Command-A.
A solid blue square on
the right indicates this
text box is linked before
another one.
A blue square indicates
this text box is the last
in this series.
A solid blue square
on the left indicates
this text box is linked
to a previous one.