Does Pages 5.1 now link text boxes?

Does anyone know if the latest update of Pages released today (v5.1) now links text boxes or not? I won't be using it unless it does and will stick with Pages '09.

It is a long list, but the last upgrade to give them credit they did more than they said they would.
The big problem is still the file format. That is not going to go away.
I also think the fKey shortcuts was the wrong method for the right idea and still is, particularly as by default the fKeys don't work.
Peter

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Thank you, I've come to the same realization. However, I think I'll stick to Pages 09 all the way. Using both versions sounds like creating ground for a world of compatibility issues. As a veteran Pages user, Pages 5 is a sobering new release. It is a sad day.

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Tamoshanter wrote:
I agree. The latest version of Pages is marketed as a huge leap forward, and indeed it probably is...
How so? It has a new coat of paint, Apple sells it as "New" and everyone thinks it is an "improvement"?
How on earth can you not notice or ignore what is so obviously wrong with it?
Peter

The linked text boxes are very important to my work flow. Not being able to flow text between pages has cost me a lot of valuable time in producing my newsletter. Any ideas?

In Pages 09 I was able to flow text between text boxes on the same page and to different pages but that seems to have gone away. This is one of the most useful items in Pages that I use. Now it seems to have gone away and I could find no replacement in doing my last newsletter, (which took at least 3 times as long to produce.) I am very disappointed in Pages 13 so far and look for some bright side to this software to change my opinion.

Apple has promised to bring back *some* features "within six montha." We're 4 months into the clock. They have brought back a couple of features (ability to cutomize the toolbar, for instance, and vertical ruler). But they still have a long way to go and there is no certainty that linked text boxes will be restroed. It wasn't cited in their original list of examples of what would be brought back. (Nor was mail merge, bookmarks, Applescript support, or many other items.)

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Does anyone know how to turn off this feature completely, so it never comes back on unless I want it to?
For a while it was OFF, and then all of a sudden I'm back fighting the linking text box feature when trying to move my text box where I want it.
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Pamela,
No, I don't believe that you can disable Text Box Linking. Just keep your mouse pointer away from the Link Handles.
Jerry

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You should be posting in the Pages for Mac community for better response.
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If you had the older mentioned Pages installed before (downgrading) to Pages v5+, it was moved into /Applications/iWork ’09, and remains a functional improvement over Pages v5+.

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Thank you for your help; it is appreciated. I suspected that, but am still disappointed. I am finding myself getting more and more disenchanted with Apple products in the past few years. I've been a faithful fan, user and promoter since the 1980s, but I am starting to seriously doubt their competency in the past few years with the Pages 5 version as well as what iOS7 continues to do to my iPhone (as my prime examples). Instead of enhancing my life and work, Apple is beginning to waste my time -- a lot of it! Perhaps it is time for a change.... I don't want to, but I am starting to look for other alternatives.

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I'm interested to know what it is you're trying to achieve - can you explain what you want your text to do?
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Hi. Using InDesign CS4 I have a Anchored Object that I would like to link part of it to the next one in the text frame. Example: I have grouped together a text box, a box with a placed UPC from Illustrator and another text box stacked on top of each other, all lined up. I group this and place it in a text box so I can set these at different places along a 29" document. When I have overset text, in the top box for example, I see the + sign but can't grab it to try to link the text to the next text box in the Anchored or grouped object. All I can do it change the size of the box - even when holding down the command key on the Mac with the text too enabled. I am setting it up this way so all three boxes stay together when positioning on pages. I have multiple rows of these so it makes it easier to modify. If I take the grouped set out of the text box so it's by itself I can grab the overset text. I am trying to link text boxes so it's easier and faster to flow in text from another program. Thanks.
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OK, I will try to get the whole page later. I want to keep what you see in the screen shot - one of the grouped objects - together as it goes across the page. So the 9232554 text and all bellow that would stay grouped together when I tab it over to line up to a certain spot on the page. This is placed in a text box that runs horizonal on the page, about 28" across. I also wanted to link the 9232554 box to the 9232729 box which is just a duplicate of the group of text and UPC code before it. But from what you say, and what I tried to do, I can't. Even when all the anchored object groups are in the same long text thread. I tried not grouping each section - the UPC code sandwiched by the text boxes, but could not place them in the long text box when not grouped togther.
I wanted to flow in the text to all 14 of these grouped or anchored objects, say all top boxes, in one 'paste' instead of doing each one at a time but keeping the 3 elements you see togther at all times.
Pat

Linking text boxes together?

hello,
I work with a book (.indb) with many different Documetns linked in it(.indd)
Problem is that i have a lot of textboxes that are the same in the documents and also across the documents.
What i would like to do is to link them all together somehow and either have
-one master (if i make changes in that it applies to all of them)
or
-everyone as a master, i make changes anywhere and all of them get changed
best would be though
-i have one master wich changes all of them but i can have extra text in the individual textboxes if needed. (I could solve this by just doing extra textbox n the pages i need some extra text)
Also dont know if it matters but the text in the textbox is conditional text (shouldnt make a difference think)
So what i want to know is if you can do this and if so, how you do it.
Thank you in advance
/Simon

SimonSchneider wrote:
Thank you for the quick reply,
So there is no way of linking text boxes together?
Becouse i only have a small amount of text that has to be the same on certain pages.
So i cant put it inot master page and i dont really want to place an entire page,
I hope I understood the procedure correctly.
Thank you in advance
Consider cross-references. Each cross-reference brings in a whole paragraph, to another place in the same document, or from a separate document. The source content can be in a separate document that's one of those in an InDesign book, or one that's not in a book. Cross-reference source content and the source that's captured can both be conditionalized, though, hiding the source creates unresolved references.
Changing the source content changes all instances that capture it.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign cross-reference tutorial" without quotes for details.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Linked Text Boxes

I need to create a linked text box allows text to automatically flow from say the bottom of page 1 to the top of page 2. I created a two page document using the "blank" template. Page 1 is 2-column and Page 2 is single column. Text is not flowing from Page 1 to Page 2.
The article below states "You can't link existing text boxes." ...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=165720
... does that mean I would literally have to delete Pages' text boxes and add my own in manually, then link them? (If so I find that difficult to believe that a user would have to go through so much manual work for something so simple).
If I have to do this manually, how do I delete Pages' text boxes so I can put my own in the same place?
MacBook Pro (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to the forums!
If you want to flow text from two columns to a single column, you do indeed need to use manual boxes -- there is no way (currently) in Pages to do this with the "default" text boxes. You don't need to delete Pages default boxes (and in fact you can't) -- instead, just stretch a box of the appropriate size on the page, pour all the text into it that you have, and when it overfills, click the small blue "tab" at the right side of the box to create a second text box that is linked to the first. This one can be moved where you like, including to a new page.

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iStreet,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
You're not missing anything. It simply can't be done in Pages.
I'm not sure if you're referring to a bubble that pops up when you mouse over the text box or some other flag to alert readers. But I think you'd need to manually insert the "continued" text in the text box.
-Dennis

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Export it as an InCopy story and then place that multiple times.
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HI Peter,
well In Quark Express as as wrote earlier, that you can see other text frames highlighted immediately, after you select any of the text frame among the threaded text frames, say there are 5 text frames which are threaded together, even if I click on 2 nd or say 4th text frame, it shows me all the text frames highlighted which are threaded together, so If I am working in a catalog which has multiple pages, it's easy for me to see which text frames are threaded together, as if you make any text changes, say add or delete text in a text frame, the other text frames get affected by that. I mean text shifts accordingly, it's easy to track in Quark which text frames will get affected if I change something in a threaded frame.
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