Mark up documents with your comments.
With so many different templates available in Pages there are a wide range of projects you can work on. You can create newsletters, design posters and even share photos and stories with friends and family.
Sometimes, if you’re creating one of those document types, you’ll be working with a friend or colleague and editing the same document. Rather than note down your comments and required changes in an email or over the phone, Pages offers a Comments feature that allows you to add sticky notes to the side of the document with your notes included. Each comment can be pointed toward a specific section of the document you are working on, be it a word, picture or an entire section of text and images. You can also add the date and time you made each comment, which means you can be sure you’re always editing the correct version.
Once you have made your comments you will be able to send the document to another Pages user, who will be able to view the comments you have made and add their own to the document. The name of the user who made the comment is listed above each note, so you can quickly see who it is from. You can also change the font and font size of the text in your comments to differentiate them.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to add comments to a Pages document and how to adjust the date and time as well as the font size and style. We’ll also show you how you can select an area of the document or a passage of text to comment on. As part of this guide we will be using the example of a newsletter, but the Comments feature works on all Pages documents including text-based projects as well as page layout documents.
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Open a document in Pages. Review the document and look for sections you would like to comment on or suggest changes to. You can comment on any section of the document including images, text, headings and any other element that can be selected.
Locate the first item in the document that you want to comment on and click on it to select it. Now click Comment at the top of the screen. The comments pane will appear and a new comment will be added to it with a line running to the selected section.
Double-click on the area of the comment that includes the time and date to show the time and date pop-up menu. By default the comment will include the date and time using a combination of words and numbers; you can select a new style from the Date Format menu.
Click on the calendar button to show the calendar interface and select the date manually. Alternatively, you can check the Automatically update on open box to set the date each time you open the document or click the Set to Today button to auto-set the current date.
Click within the comment space and type your text after your name and the time and date text. You can hit ® to add more space to the comment and the comment space will get larger as you type. You can also use formatting within the comment area.
Select the text within the comment area and then click the Font menu at the top of the screen. Select a new font from the drop-down menu and also select a font style, such as thin or wide (if the font offers it). Now select a new size for your font from the drop-down menu.
To comment on a single word or passage of text, highlight the text with the cursor by double-clicking a word or clicking and dragging across a passage. Click the comment button and the individual word or passage of text will be highlighted in yellow.
When you’ve finished adding your comments you can save the document and send it to a friend. When they open the document all of your comments will be shown in the comments pane. They can then add their own comments to the document.
