Hello Alex, In the iWork09 version of Pages, when you opened a template containing a date field, it was automatically set to today, but in the current version of Pages, you have to highlight the date field, bring the mouse, do the VO-Shift-Space click and navigate right to the Set to today button and blick it.
Cheers, Anne > On 2 Aug 2015, at 21:00, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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. 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