Thanks for this! It's strange, though that you can't set the hyphanation option in preferences; the fact that you have to change it fore each individual document is a teency bit annoying, but at least now, I know it can be done. Maybe in a future bersion of pages, they'll add some formatting stuff to preferences. That sure would be nice. Thanks again for sharing such helpful information. It is extremely appreciated. Missy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 11:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Formatting problem in Pages and Text Edit + Sharing with MS Word users. Hi Joshua, Hyphenation is automatically set to "on" in Pages, and to turn it off on a document wide level you need to go to the Inspector in the toolbar, then select (VO-Space) the "Document" radio button (first entry), and on the "Document" tab (1 of 3) you'll find a checkbox for "Hyphenate" that you should uncheck. I set this up quite a while ago, and couldn't remember exactly how this worked, since I don't use Pages that often. So here's the pasted in information from Apple's Help and the web page source URL: • Pages 4.0 Help: Using Automatic Hyphenation http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Pages/4.0/en/sl1503c622.html <begin quote> Using Automatic Hyphenation By default, Pages automatically hyphenates words if they need to break at the end of a line. Here are ways to turn hyphenation on or off: • To turn hyphenation on or off for the entire document, click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Document button, and then select or deselect Hyphenate (in the Document pane). • To turn off hyphenation for a particular paragraph, select the paragraph, click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Text button, click More, and then select “Remove hyphenation for paragraph.” • To turn hyphenation on or off for a word, click the word while holding down the Control key, and then choose Never Hyphenate or Allow Hyphenation from the shortcut menu. Turning hyphenation on or off for a word will affect every instance of that word in your document. <end quote> Also, since you mention routinely converting your Pages documents to Word documents, you might be interested in an AppleScript that will batch export any selected Pages documents to Word format. Yuma asked whether there was something like this on the list at the beginning of the year. The Mail Archive site for this list has a wonderful search feature, so typing in "Yuma pages convert" brought up the post right away. I'll paste in the relevant information: <begin quote> A Google search turned up the following source from MacScripter (subject was Pages 09 export as word doc): (From Yvan Koenig): Go to my iDisk : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan> Download : For_iWork:iWork '09:for_Pages09:batch_exportPages2DOC.zip Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) According to the instructions you can run this and select the folder of Pages documents you would like to batch convert to .doc format. <end quote> You can save the AppleScript to the "Library/Scripts" folder of your home directory. Then you could select it from the AppleScripts menu on your status menu bar. When the script runs, you would select a folder with documents in Pages format. The script creates a second folder named "was_<old name>_now_Doc" with Word formatted versions of the same files. The easy way to use this would be to assign it a keyboard shortcut of your choosing under System Preferences > Keyboard under the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab. But this is only something to consider if you create lots of Pages documents and want to batch convert all of them at one time. This isn't something I use myself. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 9, 2011, at 09:58, Joshua Loya wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I currently write a monthly column for my mother's web site, and I have > unrelated projects I'll be submitting for publication in the very near future.. I'm using a Mac, and my mother is using a PC with Jaws. When I send her Word documents that I have created with Pages, many of the words get split between two lines. For instance, the word depression, is split between 'dep' and ression' on two separate lines. I also have similar issues with other word processing documents, n Pages and Text Edit, which I have written for my own use. The only writing software I don't have any trouble with is Mac Journal, Story Mill, and Mars Edit. I would really appreciate any advice you can provide. I originally got my Mac for use with audio production software like Pro Tools, but I would also like to use it for all of my writing, regardless of the platforms the people I am collaborating with are using. > > Thanks much, > Joshua > -- 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. -- 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.
