iWork® '09 For Dummies®

Chapter 7. Editing Page Layout Documents

In This Chapter

• Creating a one-page flyer

• Setting a big title

• Adding an image

• Creating tear-off tabs

Word processing documents tend to be fairly simple: They consist of words that are built into sentences and paragraphs. You can add graphics and other elements, but most of the time you're typing one word after another.

Page layout documents generally have a range of objects, such as text boxes, graphics, and even movies and hyperlinks. You need to identify the components, know how to create and edit them, and put them all together.

As always with iWork, the easiest and fastest way to get started is to begin with one of the built-in templates. In this chapter, you create a document from a template. Then you explore what you've created, seeing how each component is created and how it can be customized. You can apply these steps to any page layout document, whether you construct it from a template or a blank document.

Analyzing the Templates

The Page Layout templates are divided into nine categories:

• Blank

• Newsletters

• Brochures

• Flyers

• Posters

• Cards & Invitations

• Business Cards

• Certificates

• Miscellaneous

Each template comes with built-in styles, and many of them have placeholder text and pictures, which you replace with your own text and pictures. As with word processing documents, as well as Numbers and Keynote documents, the templates not only provide a jumping-off point but also can give you ideas for the documents you want to create. These ideas can be specific, ...