Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide (Paperback)

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Product Description

With over 40 professionally designed templates, multiple page designs, dozens of fonts, and stunning tables and charts, Pages—Apple's new word processor—makes it easy to create polished documents with a minimum of fuss. Part word processor, part layout program, it lets you place alignment guides to help you position text and graphics precisely on the page while text flows around any kind of graphic, no matter where you put it. (Try doing that with Microsoft Word!) Students can use Pages to create school reports; parents can use it to send out birth announcements; anyone can use it to create an advertising mailer, church newsletter, party invitation, or just a plain old letter.

Here to help is this small, smart, streamlined guide designed to take readers from standing start to stellar finish, no matter what project they're tackling. Rather than cover every last option Pages offers, this book steps readers through several sample Pages projects, showing them the quickest, most effective way to communicate their ideas. Each short lesson builds a component of a basic Pages document, from choosing a template, deciding on a layout, formatting charts and tables, incorporating graphics and color, and adding a bit of polish to a final document. Friendly, step-by-step instructions and large, full-color screen shots make the information instantly accessible.  

About the Author

A graphic designer with more than fifteen years experience, David Morris
began his career with desktop publishing on a Macintosh. An original member
of the Macromedia Fireworks development team, David was responsible for user
interface design and function of Web development features for versions 1-3.
His later work as product manager for Fireworks and FreeHand, allowed him to
work closely with professional print, interactive and WEB designers gaining
a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities they face. David
is also the author of Creating a Web Site with Flash : Visual QuickProject
Guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (October 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321357558
• ISBN-13: 978-0321357557
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #242,424 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS BOOK -- WOW, WHAT A BARGAIN!, November 30, 2005

By	Dusty Williams (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

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Wow, what a bargain! Here's what's so GREAT about this book:

1) The chapters are clearly organized and thought out. Each chapter provides you with a quick, fun, creative project in which you painlessly learn about many of Pages' key program fundamentals.

2) The book provides its instructions in a clear, visual, step-by-step manner that makes learning VERY EASY, yet effective!

3) This author loves to use full-color illustrations, which makes following the author's instructions a real snap.

4) More than a simple word processor -- this author teaches you how to create NEAT projects that look great. You will learn how to create professional-looking projects in this book.

5) Doesn't waste your time. I completed this book within a couple of days and was able to immediately start publishing all kinds of neat publications afterwards.

My summary -- BUY THIS BOOK!! You won't regret it. Wow, what a bargain!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice practical introduction to Pages, April 7, 2007

By	ADW (Australia) - See all my reviews

The author has chosen a good range of projects for this work. They closely match the projects we're involved with in our local Parents and Citizens group to help out at our daughter's school. Very convenient.

The presentation allows for either staged progress through the content or more random access to concepts as you need them.

It's short enough to be digestible but contains most of what you need in Pages, short of AppleScript and other more advanced topics.

If you're relatively new to Pages and would like a good way in this book is probably for you. If you are a more advanced Pages user or have a lot of word processing experience in general you would probably benefit more from a more advanced treatment.

This book does what it sets out to do very well.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars In content and form, this reference book shines!, June 10, 2007

By	John D. Mandes (Hershey, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Pages was great when originaly itroduced. Now, in version 2.0, it has exceeded its own expectations to provide excellence wel beyond the ordinary. This edition of "Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide"
by David Morris, will provide you with the best any "how to" guide could offer. If you love Macs, if you appreciate Pages, you will be blown away wih the quaity of not only Pages 2.0, but also the manner in which the information is presented in Moriss' "Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide."