Please help, Pages layout trouble

Question

So I'm doing a newsletter...and I'm about ready to take my computer and pages with it and smash it with a sledgehammer. For some odd reason I cannot get text boxes that I insert to move. They will move on their own and will only have the resize box and It's very infuriating. Secondly, when I print it out, it's not on the full page. It literally doesn't fit an 8 1/2 x 11 page. Why is that???? Lastly, when I try to make the background box (I'm using a layout) to conform to the rest of the page, I get an x and it won't move. Can someone help me please? Because I swear I'm about to go and do this on a PC.

Answer 1

I understand your frustration. We've all been there. But I think both of these problems have easy fixes.
When an inserted object can't be moved, the cause is almost always that it is set to "move with text." This happens when the cursor is active in the text layer when the object is inserted. To avoid this, click outside the layout area to enter the object layer then insert the object. For those objects already inserted, click on an object (you should see faint handles), then go to the wrap inspector (the third icon) & click the button next to "fixed on page." You may want to change the "extra space" to less than the default 12 points. Objects you want in the background have to start out as fixed on page.
For the shrunken printed page, my guess is that you have comments turned on. Go to the View menu & select Hide Comments.