anyone know about pages 5.2.2 and page numbering

edwardakehurst · Sep 2, 2014

I converted a file from Pages 9 to Pages 5.5.2 and when I did so, the page numbers are now on the lower right hand corner, but are cut off. I see no way to click them to delete them and put elsewhere or to move to make them fully visible. Is there a way to do this? They are not within the editable area of the document. Very strange.

Any help would be appreciated.

chscag · Sep 2, 2014

I don't know if this will work with a converted Pages 9 document to a Pages 5.2.2 document:

Open the document, place your cursor on the lower area of the document where page numbering and footers are found. You should then see "Insert Page Number" appear. Click on that and then select "1". Save it. Check to see if the page number moved to the center from the lower right corner. If it didn't, go back using the same method and remove the page number. That should also remove the page number from the right corner.

Just a bit of advice.... You should also have the iWork 9 apps in a separate folder on your machine. Any documents that you created with Pages 09, you probably should not convert them but continue to edit them with Pages 09. Any new documents can be created and edited with Pages 5.2.2.

edwardakehurst · Sep 2, 2014

chscag said:
I don't know if this will work with a converted Pages 9 document to a Pages 5.2.2 document:

Open the document, place your cursor on the lower area of the document where page numbering and footers are found. You should then see "Insert Page Number" appear. Click on that and then select "1". Save it. Check to see if the page number moved to the center from the lower right corner. If it didn't, go back using the same method and remove the page number. That should also remove the page number from the right corner.

Just a bit of advice.... You should also have the iWork 9 apps in a separate folder on your machine. Any documents that you created with Pages 09, you probably should not convert them but continue to edit them with Pages 09. Any new documents can be created and edited with Pages 5.2.2.

Thanks. When I do that, it does create new page numbers in the footer, but the ones that were there are still there - outside the editable areas and partially hidden.

Yes, I will never edit a doc in the new format if from the old style again. Really frustrated with the new iWork stuff. Did a lot of work on the old ones, and they have really dumber the new ones down. Very disappointed.

chscag · Sep 2, 2014

Well, sorry it didn't work. The only other thing that I know which will definitely work is a kludge. The kludge is to open the document, press cmd A, cmd C, and then open TextEdit. Press cmd V in TextEdit. That will copy the document but lose all the formatting. But that gets rid of unwanted page numbers, footers, headers, etc. Afterward, copy back to Pages 5.2.2. Like I said, a real kludge. I've had to do that with some stubborn documents.

edwardakehurst · Sep 2, 2014

That's an idea. I'll see how much work it would be to redo my edits in the original doc versus doing your kludge idea.

Thanks for the suggestions - they are much appreciated!

anyone know about pages 5.2.2 and page numbering

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