Hello May, I'll prefix this reply with the answer that the Document Inspector is a window that is used for controlling formatting in Pages, and can be toggled on or off from view with the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-I.
For more detailed answers, I'll point out that the search box at the Mail Archive for this list is your friend. Go to the Mail Archive page for this group at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ Read down the thread of posts starting from your question last October linked here: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg11353.html and use Control-N (in Safari) to go to the next post in the thread. You'll find Anne's reply explaining how to set up double spacing in Pages, and my reply on how to set up double spacing in TextEdit -- and even (in one of my later posts in the thread) how you can define and save styles that will automatically choose double spacing in TextEdit (provided you use Rich Text Format). Simply typing "double spacing" into the search text box and pressing return can give you a number of answers, but in this case, since I remember that you asked this question once before, I narrowed down the search terms by looking for posts from you, and typed the following terms into the search text box: from:"May" double spacing then pressed return. This gave me 5 matches, and I could just read through the results to find your original post, and VO-Space on the link. If I wanted to get fancy, and look only for original posts, I could modify the search text to read: from:"May" double spacing -"Re:" This showed me all posts from you that contained the words "double" and "spacing", and also did not contain the word "Re:", which I have to enclose in quote marks after the hyphen, otherwise the search would look for a post that also contained the word "-Re:". Since replies contain "Re:" in the subject line, this gave me a unique match to your original question, and brought up the page that I linked you to at the start of this post. HTH Cheers, Esther May McDonald wrote: May McDonald wrote: >Um, what's the document inspector and how do I open it? Thanks for your help. > >May and Wyn > >On 2010-03-24, at 5:46 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > >> Not sure about what to do with Text Edit, but with Pages, the >> following will do the trick: >> 1) Select the whole document, assuming you want the whole thing double >> spaced. (Command-a). >> 2) Open the document inspector, choose the "Text" radio button, and >> the "Text" tab below that. >> 3) Using VO and the right arrow (or another method of your choosing), >> go down to spacing, and simply change the 1 in the edit field under >> lines to a 2. (This is down a bit, past character, just below a way to >> adjust lines by percentage. >> 4) Close the document inspector, and you will have a double-spaced >> file. If you add to it, etc., it will remain as such. (At least, it >> has worked that way for me.) >> Sometimes there is so much stuff in the document inspector that it can >> seem more than a little daunting, but what I've described here will >> most definitely work. >> Happy writing. >> Howard >> May McDonald wrote: >>> Hi, can someone please help me. I can't not get my files to double space. >>> I've tried both in text edit and in pages and the format stays as single >>> spaced. >>> >>> May and Wyn >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
