


Over time, Apple brought most of those features back-a few here, a few there-in updates to Pages. This approach worked well for things like newsletters, where each story could be placed in its own set of linked boxes.īut in 2013, when Apple’s rewritten-from-the-ground-up Pages 5 came out, text box linking vanished, along with many other features Pages users had come to know and love (see “ Why iWork Had to Change (and What That Has to Do with Aperture),” 9 July 2014). That second text box could link to a third, and so on. That is, if you put more text in a text box than the box could display, you could link that box to another text box, and the extra text from the first box would flow into the second. Until 2013, you could also link text boxes in Pages. They’re easily created by clicking the Text button on the toolbar or by choosing Insert > Text Box. Text boxes are ideal for sidebars, captions, callouts, authorial asides, or any other kind of text you need to put on a page outside the regular text flow of your document. You can use them to slap a chunk of text anywhere you like in a document. Text boxes rank high on the list of useful Pages features. Beats Fit Pro, ransomware protection, more OCR tools for text in images #1588: Monterey memory leak, third-generation AirPods vs.#1589: New FaceTime features, iOS 15's Weather notifications, Apple's Self Service Repair, iOS 15.1.1 and watchOS 8.1.1, Thanksgiving hiatus.#1590: Demystifying USB-C cables, Apple sues spyware firm, Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking, printer driver quirks, support TidBITS!.#1591: Major OS updates, AirPods firmware update, non-Google accounts in Gmail app, Time Sensitive notifications, Apple Watch Web browser.

#1592: Life with HomeKit, notification summaries, Music/iTunes Store oddity, inadvertent Mail deletion, iOS update error, holiday hiatus.
