Layout View
In layout view you can see the outlines of the different text areas of your document,
including headers, footers, columns, text boxes, and the document body (the main
area of text in the document).
In layout view document rulers and alignment guides become visible. Pages also
displays the document ruler, which contains controls for formatting text, when you
show a document’s layout.
To show or hide a document’s layout:
Click View in the toolbar, and then choose Show Layout or Hide Layout.
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In the following example, you can see the page layout includes two columns at the
top, two layout breaks, and then three columns, a floating image, and the footer area.
Two columns
Layout break
Footer
Layout break
A floating image
Three columns
A layout is part of a document in which you have defined layout margins and columns.
As the example above illustrates, you can have multiple layouts on a single page. A
layout break ends one layout and starts a new one with a different number of columns.
See “Using Layouts” on page 49 for details.
The example above shows a floating image. A floating image stays where you place it
on a page, unless you drag it to a new position. When “Object causes wrap” is selected
in the Wrap inspector, text flows around a floating image as you type. There’s a second
kind of image: an inline image . An inline image is an image placed so that it’s anchored
to text. An inline image moves with the text around it. To learn how to place images so
that they’re floating or inline, see “Working with Images” on page 138.
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