Mac is supposed to be intuitive. Why am I having to google every time I use Pages, to no avail? I like to create documents with various pictures interspersed with text. The pictures layer on top of each other, so I google and learn various setting for keeping the pictures flowing beneath each other on the page. Then I can't intersperse text between them. google again and try various settings for 'automatic wrap' etc. No luck. Then try adding another picture and it falls off the page altogether. it goes on and on. Apps were already doing this type of thing easily over 15 years ago. Pages is really really aggravating. I'm sick of it. Why are the settings so convoluted. What are the options? Pay for Word? does anyone have good settings that actually work to add multiple pix to a document and then be able to add captions above or below the pix?
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Pages - How to integrate pictures.
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LOL. I had the opposite problem. I had a document laid out in Pages but the conference where I was publishing required Word. For the life of me I could not get Word to put the images where I wanted them. I finally exported my document from Pages as images and put one image on each page of the Word document.
In Pages you first have to decided if the image will remain at a fixed position or flow with the text. Add the image to the document and while it is selected choose the arrange panel and choose either Stay on Page or Move with Text. If you choose Stay on Page life is easy, the image doesn’t move. However, as you edit the document you may need to manually move the images.
If you choose Move with Text then you can drag the image where you want. you will see a little blue pin showing where it is anchored in the text. You need to drag the images where you want them. The images don’t flow. You can have images on top of each other. If you choose Move with Text then as you add or delete text the images will move. If the images get to the end of the page they will be pushed to the next page.
Next choose how the text flows around the image. If you add captions using text boxes you probably want to choose text flow as None, otherwise the caption might push the image off the page.
Hope this helps. Best of luck.
In Pages you first have to decided if the image will remain at a fixed position or flow with the text. Add the image to the document and while it is selected choose the arrange panel and choose either Stay on Page or Move with Text. If you choose Stay on Page life is easy, the image doesn’t move. However, as you edit the document you may need to manually move the images.
If you choose Move with Text then you can drag the image where you want. you will see a little blue pin showing where it is anchored in the text. You need to drag the images where you want them. The images don’t flow. You can have images on top of each other. If you choose Move with Text then as you add or delete text the images will move. If the images get to the end of the page they will be pushed to the next page.
Next choose how the text flows around the image. If you add captions using text boxes you probably want to choose text flow as None, otherwise the caption might push the image off the page.
Hope this helps. Best of luck.
Apple - Pages User Guide for Mac:
"Add an image in Pages on Mac"
https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/tanb3bc78786/mac
"Position and align objects in Pages on Mac"
https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/tanc9ead56b9/mac
"Add an image in Pages on Mac"
https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/tanb3bc78786/mac
"Position and align objects in Pages on Mac"
https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/tanc9ead56b9/mac
@OGmacuser I remember you asking this question from Sunday.
Just today Gary at macmost.com published a tutorial on inserting images; hope this helps! (click on the "Watch on ewetube" below)
Just today Gary at macmost.com published a tutorial on inserting images; hope this helps! (click on the "Watch on ewetube" below)
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OP, if you want extreme control of where pictures go- and stay- switch to Page Layout mode (an option in the File menu) and lay out your content like using a DTP application. You can put images anywhere you want and they will STAY there. You put text wherever you want inside of text boxes. This will involve a new learning curve but it will also give you complete control of exactly what is on each page and exactly where it appears (and stays).
You are obviously using Word Processing mode and trying to place images with the "move with text" option which is what is rolling them off the page when you then add new text above them. If you want to stay in Word Processing mode, the best option is to first write & perfect your text COMPLETELY, so you have no expectations of further adding/editing text. THEN, add your images where you want them, starting at the top of the document and working your way down. They won't scroll off the page if you are not adding new text AFTER you have images in the page... but they will scroll if you opt to add new images to pages above pages where you have images. Text perfected first then add images top to bottom and it will "just work" as you seem to be seeking.
OPTION #2: instead of wrapping text around images in Word Processing mode, insert them "inline with text" so that they are between blocks of text. This WILL allow you to add new text & images above existing text & images, which is basically how it works in apps like Microsoft Word. With "inline with text" images, the app treats images like they are another paragraph of text, so they will scroll down and onto the next page if you add new content above that section.
You are obviously using Word Processing mode and trying to place images with the "move with text" option which is what is rolling them off the page when you then add new text above them. If you want to stay in Word Processing mode, the best option is to first write & perfect your text COMPLETELY, so you have no expectations of further adding/editing text. THEN, add your images where you want them, starting at the top of the document and working your way down. They won't scroll off the page if you are not adding new text AFTER you have images in the page... but they will scroll if you opt to add new images to pages above pages where you have images. Text perfected first then add images top to bottom and it will "just work" as you seem to be seeking.
OPTION #2: instead of wrapping text around images in Word Processing mode, insert them "inline with text" so that they are between blocks of text. This WILL allow you to add new text & images above existing text & images, which is basically how it works in apps like Microsoft Word. With "inline with text" images, the app treats images like they are another paragraph of text, so they will scroll down and onto the next page if you add new content above that section.
OP: Gary at MacMost just posted a video about this.
macmost.com
Pages Shape and Image Placement and Wrapping
When you add a shape or image to a Pages word processing document the object will be anchored to the text, which will wrap around it. You can change the object's settings so it stays on the page or is inline with text. You can also change how text wraps around the object.
macmost.com