Okay, thanks for confirming. Hopefully they update that to be a little more robust in the future, but at least I know what I'm doing now. :) > On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:50 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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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