So today I came into class happy and cheerful. By the middle of class, I was decidedly less cheerful. Pages is once again thwarting all of my attempts to be happy and cheerful with it.
My first obstacle today was the lack of an "insert" key on Mac keyboards, which on PCs lets you replace current text with new text as you type. Most people say this is a great annoyance to them, but if you had a perfect setup on your work and just needed to add things to the first page without affecting the other ones, you might want an insert key. Too bad there wasn't one.
So, instead of making my cover on the Pages document with my itinerary, I decided to open up a new template and use that instead. I used the "Garden Project Poster Large" format and replaced all the images with stock photos and replaced the text with my own cover wording. Then, I had to go back to my bibliography program and cite every last image that I used, which took about twenty minutes with all 7 photos and the websites and databases. After that, I emailed the bibliography to myself and copy and pasted it into Pages, where it came up as a small text box. After resizing the box, the bibliography took up pretty much all of one page.
So, to sum it up- Today I finished most of my cover and bibliography as well as changing my table of contents a little. I guess I'm learning more about what a Mac can and cannot do, as well.
dude i agree i don't like pages but the ninja is cool
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