Pages User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new in Pages 14.1
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- Use iCloud Drive with Pages
- Export to Word, PDF, or another file format
- Open an iBooks Author book in Pages
- Reduce the document file size
- Save a large document as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a document
- Move a document
- Delete a document
- Lock a document
- Password-protect a document
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
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Quick navigation in Pages on Mac
To make it easier to navigate your document, you can open a sidebar on the left side of the Pages window to view either thumbnail images of the document’s pages or a table of contents. You can also choose a destination from the View menu and use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the document.
Show or hide Page Thumbnails view
Do one of the following:
To show page thumbnails, click
in the toolbar, then choose Page Thumbnails.
To hide page thumbnails, click
, then choose Document Only.
![The sidebar on the left side of the Pages window with Page Thumbnails view open and a selected page highlighted in dark orange.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E61563AAB360A8BF0618F2/65E61567AAB360A8BF061904/en_US/530f33af305c028f812b7e2594c5b44a.png)
In Page Thumbnails view you can rearrange sections in a word-processing document or rearrange pages in a page layout document. See Rearrange pages or sections in Pages on Mac.
Show or hide Table of Contents view
Do one of the following:
To show the table of contents, click
in the toolbar, then choose Table of Contents.
To hide the table of contents, click
, then choose Document Only.
![The table of contents on the left side of the Pages window with an Edit button at the top-right corner of the sidebar and table of contents entries in a list. The View button is in the top-left corner of the Pages toolbar, above the sidebar.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E61563AAB360A8BF0618F2/65E61567AAB360A8BF061904/en_US/612a5044cdac71f29b056fceeef4c8ae.png)
To learn how to change what appears in the table of contents, or how to add a table of contents to your document, see Create a table of contents.
Use navigation shortcuts
You can press keys on your keyboard to navigate in your document. Do any of the following:
Move to the next or previous line: Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key.
Move to the next or previous page: Press the Page Up or Page Down key. If your keyboard doesn’t have these keys, press Fn-Up Arrow or Fn-Down Arrow.
Move to a specific page: Press Control-Command-G, type the page number, then press Return or click Go to Page. You can also choose View > Go To > Page (from the View menu at the top of your screen).
To see all the keyboard shortcuts you can use in Pages, see Keyboard shortcuts.
Tip: You can also bookmark text in your document, then use the bookmarks list to jump to the bookmarks. See Add bookmarks and cross-references.