How can I change the Pages footer to 3 columns?

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How can I change the Pages footer to 3 columns?

My Pages version: 12.1 (7034.0.86)

I took the file template from somebody else, who somehow made the footer a single box, while I want to be able to enter separate texts in different boxes. Now I have to separate them by entering blank spaces.

Selecting ALL and deleting the contents doesn't restore the default three columns.

The column setting in Format - Text - Layout doesn't work.

Format - Table - Footer Rows setting is greyed out, so I never know what it's for.

Thanks for any idea!

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.5

Posted on Aug 25, 2022 9:01 PM

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Answer 1

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VikingOSX

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Aug 26, 2022 5:25 AM in response to DAOXUNCHANG

Pages '0Y (Y=year) document templates, nor Word documents have the triad header or footer segments, and when those document types are opened in the Oct 2013 Pages rewrite and later versions, the original template style is retained. You cannot subsequently force these documents to have segmented headers or footers without creating a new blank Pages document and copy/pasting that content into it.

Just to note, that the headers and footers that you encounter in current Pages documents are not based on tables, though they give that visual impression.

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picas

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Aug 25, 2022 9:29 PM in response to DAOXUNCHANG

What you have selected is for a Table. And columns has nothing to do with header and footers. See if Header and Footer is selected under Document as in image below:

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picas

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Aug 25, 2022 10:41 PM in response to DAOXUNCHANG

If you go to Pages Menu > View > Show Layout it should show the 3 separate text boxes. They are built-in and can't be changed to one column (although if you had enough text it will display across all 3).

That screenshot could just be a text box.

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