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    Pages For Seniors: A Ridiculously Simple Guide To Word Processing On Your Mac
    Pages For Seniors: A Ridiculously Simple Guide To Word Processing On Your Mac
    Pages For Seniors: A Ridiculously Simple Guide To Word Processing On Your Mac
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    Pages For Seniors: A Ridiculously Simple Guide To Word Processing On Your Mac

    By Scott La Counte

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    Unleash the Power of Pages!

    Pages is powerful software, and if you get a Mac, it's free. But let's face it: you've probably spent most of your life using Word-or if you were a renegade, WordPerfect.
    For a Mac user, Pages can make your documents really shine...but firs
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSL Editions
    Release dateJan 20, 2020
    ISBN9781087861838
    Pages For Seniors: A Ridiculously Simple Guide To Word Processing On Your Mac

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      Pages For Seniors - Scott La Counte

      Introduction

      Pages is powerful software, and if you get a Mac, it’s free. But let’s face it: you’ve probably spent most of your life using Word—or if you were a renegade, WordPerfect.

      For a Mac user, Pages can make your documents really shine…but first you need to know how to use it. This guide will help!

      Instead of spending hundreds of pages on functions you probably will never use, it shows you what you really want to know: the basics.

      In no time, you’ll be creating visually stunning documents!

      It will show you the ropes—including how to do all those things you are used to doing in Microsoft Word-and help you with some of the features you may not even know about.

      Ready to get started? Let’s go!

      Note: This guide is based off of the bestselling series The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Pages For Mac. It has an added section on accessibility.

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      Understanding Word Processing On Your Mac

      How To Get Pages

      Depending on how you acquired your Mac, you may or may not have Pages already. Getting it is easy. And even better: getting it is free! (you can see if you have it by going into the Launchpad from the dock and searching for Pages).

      

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      There’s one catch: not all Macs are supported. But most are. MacOS 10.14 is required to run Pages, which means you must have one of the following computers:

      MacBook: Early 2015 or newer

      MacBook Air: Mid 2012 or newer

      MacBook Pro: Mid 2012 or newer

      Mac Mini: Late 2012 or newer

      iMac: Late 2012 or newer

      iMac Pro

      Mac Pro: Late 2013 or newer; Mid 2010 or Mid 2012 models require a Metal-capable GPU

      As long as you have one of those, then you can go to the App Store (it’s in your Launchpad). Pages is a digital download only—you cannot obtain a physical copy of it. The download is a few hundred MB.

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      From there, type in Pages in the search, and hit the return key.

      

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      If you have it, the return result will have an Open button; if you don’t have it, the result will show a Get button. When you click Get, you’ll be prompted to put in your Apple ID and password; if you don’t have an Apple ID, then follow the onscreen instructions to get one (this is free).

      

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      Running Pages for the First Time

      When you first open Pages, you'll be asked if you want to use iCloud. I recommend you do; this makes it easy to save and open documents across all devices—if you are writing a document on your phone, for instance, you can open that document and continue working on it from your tablet—it’s all very seamless and doesn’t require anything extra on your part once it’s set up.

      If you set up iCloud, you can even access and type documents right in your browser—there’s nothing else to install on your computer, which means technically you could use Pages on a Windows computer or even a Chromebook or Android device—I’ll show you how at the end of this chapter.

      The Pages Crash Course

      The first time you use Pages, you’ll get a brief tutorial. You can either watch it or skip it.

      Each time you open Pages, you’ll be greeted with a directory box that asks you if you want to open a document or if you want to create a new one. We’ll be working off a new document in this chapter, so click New Document

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