Thank you, that's a big help, if somewhat convoluted. :) I gather that Pages uses a lot of this mouse stuff, instead of making things more efficiently accessible?
As to the date, is there no way to tell the template to auto-fill the current date when I make a new file? I now know how to insert and format the date, but if I make a file in October based on this template, can Pages not automagically put "October 3, 2015" into that field? I can do it manually, I guess I'm just surprised I have to, if that makes sense. > On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > Here’s how to manage date fields in templates in Pages. > Go to the Insert menu and choose Date & Time. Press Return (by default, Pages > takes the Date and Time format from the Full definition in System > Preferences, Language > & Region pane). However, you can change the date and time format as follows: > Go to the last item then press left arrow to highlight the date and time. > Bring the mouse and do VO-Shift-Space. You’ll hear the current date followed > by “Pop up button”. Click this button to get a menu giving various forms of > the date. Use VO-w to spell out each one and select the one you prefer by > pressing Return. > The Choose Date Format pop up window opens where you can change the date and > time format as well as its values. The unlabelled button to the right of Set > to today is the Calendar button. Tip: you can label this button using > VO-Slash. In any case, click the Set to today button. > Clicking the Calendar button allows you to set any date you like. Press > Return when you’re done. > So, when you open your template, you can get the menu for the date field and > click the Set to today button and the format will be that which you selected > for your template. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > >> On 1 Aug 2015, at 04:01, Alex Hall <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> As promised, I'm back with another Pages question. I'm finally converting my >> bill and service report templates from RTF to actual Pages templates, as >> it'll be easier to fill them out this way. One thing I'd love to do is to >> have the current date inserted into a new document when I generate one from >> the template. Better still, I'd like to control with parts of the date >> appear. For example, the main "date" field would be the full date, whereas >> another section would be only the month and the year. Are either of these >> doable? I could make placeholders and type it in manually, but it seems like >> Pages should be able to manage this for me. Thanks in advance. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
