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Reveal Hidden Track Changes Toolbar - Another popular chunk of interface real estate for a group of people working on a document is the Track Changes toolbar, which you can bring up by choosing Edit > Track Changes or by clicking the Track Changes button on the main toolbar. If you want to flip through all the comments in a document quickly, this is where to work. For instance, they can advance you to the next comment in the document, or the next hyperlink.

You use the gear menu to set what the triangles do. The Scroll To triangles and associated gear menu that appear next are incredibly valuable. Again, you can’t access this navigational control from any normal menu, dialog, or keyboard command. Click it, and a “Go to Page” box appears where you can type the page number that you want to move to. The Pages area in the bottom window border turns out to be clickable. I like to work at 100% with two pages showing, but many other Take Control folks prefer a higher zoom level in only a single page, so each time one of us opens the file, the zoom and display layout must be adjusted, which can be done Although Pages does have a Zoom command in the View menu, it won’t let you choose a specific zoom percentage and it lacks the pop-up menu’s One-Up and Two-Up commands that control how many pages appear. The leftmost pop-up menu lets you change your zoom level and how many pages are showing at once. I’ll explain the three options I use, but note that there is also a checkbox in the Pages General preference pane to show the word count in this lower area I work with that turned off. Important options appear at the lower left of a Pages document, in a location that is precariously close to the Dock with a full-height Pages window and a horizontal Dock. In Pages, key functions are stuck hither and thither in the user interface and there is no apparent reference that lists them all. In Word, you can use the menus and dialogs as training wheels and pretty soon you’ll start using keyboard shortcuts for commands that you choose often. Look at the Bottom - A classic mistake of the long-time Word user switching to another program is to assume that if you look long enough in the menus and dialogs, you’ll encounter all the important commands available (that’s even more true if you include Word’s Customize Keyboard dialog, which lists a wealth of obscure commands). Now that the commotion from the transition has died down, I want to share the strategies we used in switching from Word to Pages, along with some of my favorite Pages tips. (If you are curious about why we chose to switch, or about our EPUB-savvy production process, see “ How Take Control Makes EPUBs in Pages,” 30 September 2011.)
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Last year, when the Take Control ebook series migrated from Microsoft Word 2008 to Pages ’09, I faced the challenge of not only acquainting myself with an unfamiliar piece of software, but also of helping a group of authors make the switch, all while under time pressure to keep up with Apple’s breathless product-release schedule.
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