Why does Pages restrict me to two pages?

Question

I have recently bought a Mac Pro and am trying to get used to Pages. If I am doing multiple page documents, I keep finding that after two pages, I seem to lose extra pages, although they are still there if I look back to previous versions. Any idea why this is happening, and what I can do to stop it, please?

Answer 1

Sounds like you have floating images with wrap on them and are using spaces, returns and tabs to push objects around.
Pages has a particular way of working with pages.
In Word Processing documents Pages creates or eliminates pages based on whether there is anything in the main text layer ie the area between the page margins.
If there is more text than fits on a page, a new page is created and the text flows onto that.
Conversely if you eliminate text so that there is no more text on the current page, the pages shrink back.
This includes inline objects (things pasted into the text) which act just text, in fact like big fat characters.
If you have floating images that are not part of the flow of text, they stay put on the page where you created them. If that page has been eliminated when the text was reduced, the image remains where it was on the no longer visible page.
If you create some more pages by Menu > Insert > Page Break those images or objects will be visible once more.
In your case I suggest you have a muddled set of floating objects and lots of spaces and returns just to push things in place. The combination of the text wrap from the objects and all those invisible characters can make things pop unexpectedly.
1. Menu > View > Show Invisibles
2. Get rid of all the spaces and returns other than just the one after each paragraph or word
3. Menu > Insert > Page Breaks until you see all your objects again
4. Cut and paste those where you want them in the text.
5. Use floating objects when you get a better hang of layout
Peter