iWork® '09 For Dummies®

Chapter 11. Advanced Word Processing Techniques

In This Chapter

• Formatting columns

• Paginating your document

• Creating a table of contents

Your word processing documents are already set up by Pages with a number of optional features: headers and footers, automatic page numbers, various margin controls, and the ability to create footnotes and to automatically update tables of contents (yes tables — you can have several in one document). These tools are valuable for all your documents, but they are particularly important for large documents.

Large documents — large Numbers spreadsheets and large Keynote presentations as well as large Pages documents — require special handling so that your readers don't get lost (and so that you don't get lost as you're writing the document!). The challenges of a large spreadsheet are different from those of a large presentation or a large word processing document.

Working with Sections for Improved Formatting of Long Documents

Word processing documents consist of words, paragraphs, and pages. They also contain sections. Just as you can format words, paragraphs, and pages, you can also format sections. A section can be as small as part of a page or many pages long. In the case of a book, a section is usually a chapter.

Each section can contain its own formatting. Sections also may contain text that is either placeholder text you can replace or text that remains unchanged.

When you create a document from a template, all of the template's sections are available, ...