Hi Anne. Let me make sure I have it straight. I have been doing the layout in Numbers, but what I have been doing is pasting all of the text after I get it done. Also, I finally figured out I had to take out all the extra columns and rows before pasting the text. Are you saying that I should paste each column back into Pages separately? I haven't been doing that. I would leave the text in Numbers after doing the layout, but I can't get it to save in Word. It wants to do Excel, which I don't want. Also, Pages has been converting all my text to an image immediately when I paste it.
I hope all this makes sense. I've just about got it right, and this is really frustrating. Regards, Gigi On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Gigi, > > Any layout problems need to be handled in Numbers, not Pages. You then have > to copy just the portion of the table that you need. So if you have a blank > column at the left, some blank columns to the right, and some blank rows > below, you should not copy these back into Pages. > > To select a portion of a table, place a hotspot at the first item you wish to > select, navigate to the last item in the selection, then do a physical mouse > click. Turn cursor tracking off, jump to the hotspot, bring the mouse and do > a shift-click. The required portion of the table will be selected and can be > copied. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 14 Nov 2011, at 06:04, Gigi wrote: > >> Hi guys. >> Tables has been my most painful part of switching to the Mac. I signed up >> for on-to-one with Apple when I got my Mac, and I have been there three >> times trying to work out the difficulties with my tables. >> >> It was, by folks on this list, that told me to put the text into Numbers and >> then put it back into Pages once I organized the table. My problem is, and I >> have a feeling that it would not be a problem if I could stay in Pages, is >> that I have to convert mine into Word files. Once I do that, everything >> seems to change. >> >> My problem is that my columns are not even in width, and I had to get a >> reader to help me determine the sizes for each column. They tell me it looks >> fine on the screen once I get the columns set, so I think I am fine. But >> then, when I convert the thing and my husband looks at it on his Windows >> computer, it's got problems I didn't know about before I sent it. >> >> I tried using the option of text to fit content, but it didn't work either. >> The reason I have been working on this is that I have a customer who thinks >> she needs these things. However, she may be about not to get them because >> the reality is that she could read the text perfectly fine in rtf tabular >> format. Besides, she just lost one of her proofreaders, so she's down to >> two; I think she'll take anything now. >> >> I could put Windows on my Mac, and I would if I thought it was critical for >> her to get tables. I hope that when they update Pages, this gets fixed >> before I have to tell her that she's not getting the tables. Trust me guys. >> She won't dispense with my work just for this. She'll be glad to get it. If >> I get a chance, I'm going to try one more time to see if changing other >> column widths will work. If anybody has any other ideas before I try again, >> I would appreciate hearing the idea before I have to spring it on her. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Nov 13, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Kevin Shaw <tvsound...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi matthew, >>> >>> I understand that you can copy the table in to Numbers and work with it >>> normally. I'm not sure what progress has been made with Voiceover and >>> tables within Pages itself, but I do know that copying the table into >>> Numbers does work. >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> Kevin >>> On 2011-11-13, at 8:11 PM, Matthew J wrote: >>> >>>> Hay all, >>>> >>>> I致e been trying to handle pages on the mac for a while now. Unfortunately, >>>> I find myself confused completely by tables. It seems to skip over them >>>> altogether. A lot of the work I do involves them. 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