I am trying to teach myself graphic design. The templates in Pages are really nice, but I want to be able to make my own. I was stripping apart a brochure template ("Elegant Brochure"), and found that most of everything on the page was a text box or an image. Once I removed all of those elements there was still a pattern in the background. When I clicked on it, I noticed "x's" on the corners that were immobile instead of the usual white boxes for manipulating images or text boxes. I clicked on the inspector and noticed that these were actually jpegs, but I don't know how to remove them, or in the case of wanting to make my own brochure layout, insert background pictures like that that will stay immobile.
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When you have a Pages document, you can always go to File -> Save as Template
After you’ve saved it, whenever you chose New -> From Template Chooser, you have a small section that says “My Templates”:
Your “Custom” templates should appear there.
For the second part of your question, what you need is what Pages call a section. The steps for creating a new section are pretty straightforward and you can find a lot of information on google, see samples here and here (find the part where a new section is created).
In short: Insert a “Section Break”, edit it, change the styles, add what you want (see the links to see tips about different things you can do, like having a different ‘first page’ than the rest, etc.).
Once you’re happy with your “section”, make sure the ‘caret’ (cursor) is blinking in any part of the section and go to Format -> Advanced -> Capture Pages:
The result is a sheet dialog like this:
Give it a name, make sure it includes the pages you want (1, 2, 3 or all, depending upon the complexity of your idea, in your case it would be ‘First Page Only’) and finally save the document as a “Template”.
The page(s) you’ve used to create a Section can be safety deleted before you save the template (unless you want your template to always start with those pages by default), because you have captured them as a section, they will always be available under the new template.
In later iWork edition Apple made changes to the formats so this is the cause that you can not follow the procedure described in the article that you are referring.
The best way to go around this annoyance would be:
- Open the pages document with your current pages (I assume is the latest Pages),
- Save us some other name but before you do it extend the save us menu using the up/down arrow where you are presented with more choices,
- Select the radio button "Save copy as:" and choose iWork'08 and then save it.
- Go find your new saved document and you are now presented with the "Show package content" additional menu item (on your right click).
- Extract the images (copy them somewhere else).
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Best Answer
After flipping through "iWork:The Missing Manual" and digging a little deeper, I discovered that those watermark style background images were immobile because they were "Locked." So I clicked "Unlock" in the Arrange menu, and then I could delete or manipulate those images.