View an optimized version of your document in Pages on Mac
Screen View in Pages allows you to view and edit a version of your word-processing document that lets you focus on writing. Screen View lays out content in a continuous flow, hides elements like page numbers and page breaks, and resizes others to fit the window.
Screen View hides certain elements, including:
Objects that aren’t set to Move with Text
Page count
Page numbers
Page breaks
Content in headers and footers
Document margins (and the ruler)
Elements modified by Screen View vary depending on the document, but can include columns, line spacing, and page breaks, for example. Elements that are hidden or modified in Screen View remain part of the document and are not deleted. They reappear in their original state when Screen View is turned off.
Turn Screen View on or off
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document.
Choose View > Enter Screen View (from the View menu at the top of your screen).
To turn off Screen View, choose View > Exit Screen View.
When you turn on Screen View, a notification appears if any elements are hidden. Click the notification to see details about the hidden content.
If you close a document when Screen View is turned on, it remains on the next time you open the document. It can be turned on or off at any time.
Tip: To add a Screen View button to the toolbar, choose View > Customize Toolbar (you may need to scroll down), drag the Screen View button to the toolbar, then click Done.
Adjust text size in Screen View
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document in Screen View.
Choose View > Text Size (from the View menu at the top of your screen), then choose Auto, Bigger, or Smaller.
Changes to visible elements in Screen View
Many elements that remain visible in Screen View appear or behave differently than they do when Screen View is turned off.
For example, many elements, including tables, charts, and body text, are resized to fit the screen. Some other elements behave differently in Screen View, including the following:
Footnotes appear in the body text, immediately following the paragraph where the item the footnote is referring to is located.
The badge indicating a comment doesn’t appear in the margin where the comment is located.
All content appears in a single column, regardless of the number of columns in the document.
Left and right indentations don’t appear.
When you share a document with Screen View turned on, the person receiving the document sees it with Screen View turned off. In addition, when you print a document with Screen View turned on, the document is printed with Screen View turned off.