Mixing it Up: Mixed-Mode Document Authoring in Pages 5/6
One of the more disorienting behaviors that crops up when creating documents in the latest generations of Pages is that you can't Copy & Paste actual Page objects from document to document. If you've been using the older Pages '08/'09 architecture for some time, it's something of a jarring shift in the paradigm: while you weren't able to Copy & Paste pages between Word Processing and Page-Layout mode documents before, you could at the very least copy layouts from one Page Layout document to another with relative ease.
Not so with Pages 5.x/6.x - you can copy the contents of the page within the app, but not a page in and of itself. While there are likely good reasons for inhibiting this sort of behavior from an architectural perspective, it can make for a confusing experience when you'd like to mix documents or otherwise use elements from one template in another.
In our latest Tutorial, we look at techniques for working around this behavior with a run-through of the Basics of Page-Layout to Page-Layout migrations and some universal concepts - then we take a deeper look at more advanced operations and how we can blend Page-Layout elements into a Word Processing-mode document, along with how to save a Custom Template to capture your work.
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