Create Your Mac Pages Invoice Template for it Effortlessly

Mac pages invoice template for IT

here are five things you can do with mac pages that you probably had no idea about [Music] welcome back to my channel so what we're going to do today is i'm going to go ahead and share my screen and i'm going to show you five different cool things you can do with mac pages that you probably didn't know about so if you are one of those people that like to know kind of the secret little things you can do with different programs on your mac this is what this is going to be about a lot of people use mac pages it's obviously a replacement for something like microsoft word but there's a lot of things you can do in there that a lot of people just don't know about or they don't use that often so i might do another video later of five more but i'm going to start off the video by showing you five things that you probably didn't know and they're probably going to be kind of cool or useful at least if you design different documents and things like that so let's get into the video i'll show you how to do it and then at the end of the video let me know did you know about these or did you not all right so the first tip is going to be something a lot of people don't know you can do but watch this so if you go up to click on your document let's just go ahead and click this is just a sample document i'm just going to click somewhere in the document right there go up to insert up here and then you want to go down all the way down to web video you can see it right there so click on it it's going to bring up a window just like this see it here it's going to say add videos from youtube and you know vimeo so you can basically i actually selected one of my videos i just went to youtube selected the link i'm going to go ahead and just paste it right in there like that you can see that's my newest video for tech news i'm going to go ahead and click insert next and there it is so basically you can see here you can go ahead and resize it it's going to resize the text around it so once you go ahead and you you you know obviously send this to somebody you can go ahead and click on this and they'll be able to watch the videos you can see here see that looking for some apple news let's get into it pretty cool huh so if you want to send this to friends and family that have pages you can go ahead and embed this into there now it may not work i haven't tested it fully in word and stuff but if people are on pages this work just fine and if you want to go ahead and just document certain videos so it's a thing that's built into pages and go ahead and use it it's there right now and very easy to use all right so tip number two is very similar and a lot of people still don't know this is available either so what you want to do is here's my sample document you want to go ahead and just click somewhere in the document then when you want to go up to insert up here and what we want to do is this time it's an image gallery now watch this you click image gallery and a lot of people do this and they don't understand obviously what to do next but you can resize this and put this anywhere you want in your document you can see how everything kind of wraps around it and then let's actually make this a little bit bigger there we go now all you have to do is here's a folder over here i have some images in here let me go ahead and make this a little bit smaller so i just have some basic images in here but you can select let's say one i'm just going to select four different images here and just grab them and drop them right into this square and watch what happens here they're going to load in and you can see that it puts all these images in here so now if a person's reading this you can actually update the caption here very easily but if the person clicks on these little dots here it'll show or the arrows up here either way you can see that's going to show different images in this caption so if you're telling a story about maybe a different country or something and you want to show pictures of the landscapes it's a really kind of interactive way to do it so that's just another tip a lot of people just don't know that exists so this next one is for people that might want to create like a flyer or something with really attractive text maybe like a textured text so i'm going to go to a second page here i'm going to make a new title here but let's just go ahead and just show you first of all this is just text obviously it's the same as here and you can go ahead and i'm going to make it bold and i'm going to go ahead and make it really really big so we can see the effect so you want to make this pretty big so you can actually see this kind of texturing taking place so i'm going to make it across the whole page but again you can do whatever you want with this make it any size it's going to work the same so what you start off by doing is you select all the text right if you go up here you want to make sure you click on under under text you want to click on style see it here and then go down to this where it says text color obviously if you click this box you can change the text color see that it's going to be green everyone knows that but there's a little hidden feature under text color where it says that there's two little arrows and you want to go ahead and click on those see that and it says text color right there go down to image fill and click on that what's going to happen is it's going to have like a little gray box here and you're going to see it turn to gray now what a lot of people don't realize you can do here is actually drag you know grab just an image and drag it into here and it'll change the texture so leave this highlighted like this and let me show you what you do so you go over here these are just images over here you want to click like a textured image but on for this purpose i'm just going to click any image so click this image over here and i'm going to grab it and i'm going to drag it all the way over here into this little gray box see it here i'm going to let go on this gray box and what it did is it put it in there now look what happened if you look at this it textured my text behind that image or the image is basically the texture of the text so if i go ahead and make this a lot bigger you'll see that now i have that image it was a jellyfish so it's kind of kind of look weird here but it actually made it purple and all the jellyfish features are showing up in the text again you can do the same thing select this pick a different one like this is a green image over here so let me go ahead and drag this into here and now watch what happens it's going to usually take a couple seconds there it goes now look at that text see how cool that is so the effect of this is really really interesting and you probably wouldn't have been able to do text like this before because obviously there's no there's no text feature like this built in but now look at that text it's green white brown really cool feature use it a lot in like flyers and even titles on documents all right so the next tip is going to be just for people that maybe are writing documents for school or they want to see how many words or paragraphs they have in a document really easy just click on the document what you want to do next is you want to go up to the view up here and then go down to show word count here there's a couple features built into this i'll show you so click on that and you'll notice way down here at the bottom you can see it's barely you can barely see it it'll say 821 words so it counts all the words here but if you actually click on that little you know these little arrows here down here you'll see that it actually gives you characters you know without spaces character with spaces paragraphs and pages so it gives you a whole bunch of different information here which is you know really useful you can go ahead and select text like this you'll see that that text i selected is only 148 words you can go ahead and see it's one paragraph obviously 690 characters so whatever you select it's going to give you that you know it's going to continue to read this out down here and then if you want to turn this off obviously just go back up to view and then hide word count there and it's going to go away so just a quick tip all right and this final one is if you wanted to create maybe a newsletter or something to that effect so here's your document maybe you have an image in here as well what you want to do is first you want to select all the text you want to do this too so make sure you don't have the title selected otherwise it'll happen to the title 2 which you don't want you'll see the effect in a second so select the text that you want if it's multiple pages select everything including the image then what you want to do is click on layout right here and then go into columns you can see it here so click columns and you'll see everything in here is basically set for you but you go ahead and click on this little arrow that goes up and look at that so right off the bat you'll see it's going to create your document into two columns and then you can go ahead and drag and drop or you know basically resize this any way you want if you want to go ahead and make this bigger put this in the middle of the document like this so if you're making a newsletter or something where you want two or three documents again you can go ahead and go like this let me go ahead and click on three columns it's going to get a little bit harder with the texas size but you get the gist of it you can go ahead and easily put columns in rearrange your photos and it's going to make it look more like a newsletter so if you're doing something for like a church or something go ahead and use this you know to make a document look a little bit more professional although this doesn't right here but you get the jet you know you get the drift of it so anyways just wanted to share that with you because a lot of people don't ever use it all right so helpful not helpful let me know in the comments these are going to be five techniques you can use obviously and they're just not documented so for instance you can either pick them up watching videos like this one or some other videos like i did or you can read about them in articles and various things like that but unless you do that they're really not documented and a lot of times unless you see someone actually use this technique you're not even going to know about it and i'm not sure why apple does it apple should create maybe documentation on all their programs i'm sure there's obviously a lot of books written on them but maybe it should come from apple just saying these are all the features that are built into it go at it but a lot of times you have to figure them out yourself and you know obviously whether they're useful or not may or may not be for everyone and depending on how you use it but pages is a pretty powerful program if you start getting into the kind of nuts and bolts of it so let me know in the comments so what you think let me know if this is useful i might make another one with a couple more maybe five more different techniques you can use and let me know if you know obviously i can do them on other programs in the apple ecosystem as well if you want me to so let me go ahead and end the video and i hope everyone enjoys these i'll talk to you soon i do maybe you know three to four videos a week talk to you soon peace