![]() ![]() Sounds are great, but crippled: the space bar needs its own sound. You have to exit full screen then make it full screen explicitly for it to work. Opening a document in full screen while WriteRoom is already running makes it full screen as the default desktop, making everything else on that screen inaccessible. It can and will cause the application to crash and be unable to re-open. Since that's the entire point of distraction-free writing, it seems like the first thing you'd want to get right, but alas. Interaction with the OS and other features - not so much. Full screen, distraction-free writing is its forte. It's great at what it does when it does what it's great at. “A perfectly balanced, indispensable part of any Mac writer’s toolkit.” “WriteRoom’s minimalist interface also frees you from the nagging urge to fiddle with margins, fonts, and other settings, leaving you with nothing to do but write.” “Unlike practically everything else in our digital lives, WriteRoom's minimalist interface implies a truly flattering proposition: It's you, not the software, that matters.” “But if, when it comes right down to it, full screen is your r grail, and the ultimate antidote to the bric-a-brac of Word, then you must enter the WriteRoom, the ultimate spartan writing utopia.” Choose your own background images, paper textures, and typing sounds.Use themes to save, switch, and share your favorite settings.Automatically log your writing sessions to a spreadsheet.Select word, sentence, and paragraph commands.Shift line up, down, left, and right commands.Live word count, reading time, and more.Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Move an open document out of the tab bar: Drag a tab to the side of the Pages window to open the document in its own Pages window.Write without distractions. View a different document: Click the tab with the document’s title.Ĭlose a document: Move the pointer over the document’s tab, then click the X in the corner of the tab.Īdd an open document to the tab bar: Drag the document onto the tab bar. This setting applies not just to Pages, but also to documents in other applications such as TextEdit, Numbers, and Keynote. MacOS 12 or earlier: Choose > System Preferences, click General, click the “Prefer tabs” pop-up menu, then choose “always.”Īs you open documents, their titles appear in tabs in the tab bar below the Pages toolbar. MacOS Ventura 13 or later: Choose > System Settings, click Desktop & Dock, click the “Prefer tabs when opening documents” pop-up menu, then choose Always. When you want to view two documents at the same time, you can easily move a document out of a tab. When you work in multiple documents, it’s helpful to open them in tabs rather than in separate windows-that way, you can quickly move between them without taking up the whole screen with open documents. If you can’t remove something from a document.Restore an earlier version of a document.Save a large document as a package file.Export to Word, PDF, or another file format.See the latest activity in a shared document.Change the look of chart text and labels.Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings.Change a chart from one type to another.Calculate values using data in table cells.Select tables, cells, rows, and columns.Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image.Set pagination and line and page breaks.Format hyphens, dashes, and quotation marks.Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text.Use a keyboard shortcut to apply a text style. ![]() Create, rename, or delete a paragraph style.Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough.Populate and create customized documents.Add, change, or delete a source file in Pages on Mac.Select text and place the insertion point.Use VoiceOver to preview comments and track changes.View formatting symbols and layout guides.Intro to images, charts, and other objects.
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