Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Use iCloud Drive with Pages
- Export to Word, PDF or another file format
- Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
- Reduce the document file size
- Save a large document as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a document
- Move a document
- Delete a document
- Lock a document
- Password-protect a document
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Use rulers in Pages on Mac
Pages provides horizontal and vertical rulers to help you lay out text and objects in your document. For word processing documents like a letter or report, you need to turn on the vertical ruler in Pages settings. The vertical ruler is always available for page layout documents.
You can set the ruler to use different increments (points, inches, centimetres), or show the tick marks as percentages. You can also place 0 (zero) at the centre of the ruler, which can be useful if you’re designing a page layout document.
Show the vertical ruler for word processing documents
Go to the Pages app on your Mac.
Open a document, then choose Pages > Settings (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen).
Click Rulers.
Select the tickbox next to “Show vertical ruler whenever rulers are shown”.
Show or hide rulers
Go to the Pages app on your Mac.
Open a document, then do one of the following:
Click in the toolbar, then choose Show Ruler (or Hide Ruler).
Choose View > Show Ruler (or Hide Ruler) from the View menu at the top of your screen.
Change ruler units
When you change a unit setting for rulers in Pages, it applies to all documents. You can change the settings at any time, even if you have a document open.
Go to the Pages app on your Mac.
Open a document, then choose Pages > Settings (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen), then click Rulers at the top of the settings window.
Click the Ruler Units pop-up menu, then choose an increment (Points, Centimetres or Inches).
To show the ruler marks as a percentage of the page, select the “Display the ruler units as percentage” tickbox.
Place zero at the centre of the ruler
You can place 0 (zero) at the centre of the ruler so that ruler units increase to the left and right.
Go to the Pages app on your Mac.
Open a document, then choose Pages > Settings (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen), then click Rulers at the top of the settings window.
Select the “Place origin at centre of ruler” tickbox.
Tip: You can also use the ruler to set margins and tab stops, and you can drag alignment guides from the ruler to the page.