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Set default fonts
Set the default font and font size used for all new documents created from basic templates.
Quick navigation
Jump to a specific page in your document using a new menu command.
New movie formats
Easily add HEVC-formatted movies to documents, enabling reduced file size while preserving visual quality.
And more
- Add accessibility descriptions to audio, video, and drawings. Learn more
- Improved accessibility of exported PDFs.
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Get complete step-by-step instructions and information on all the features in Pages for Mac.
New in Pages 8.1 for Mac
- Style your text by filling it with gradients or images, or by applying new outline styles. Learn more
- Copy and paste pages or sections between documents. Learn more
- Create links from text to other pages in a page layout document. Learn more
- Place images, shapes, and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text. Learn more
- Using face detection, subjects in photos are intelligently positioned in placeholders and objects.
- Reapply a master page so text and media placeholders return to their default style and position. Learn more
- Create books using new templates for novels (available in English only).
New in Pages 8.0 for Mac
- Use the new table of contents view to easily navigate your document or book. Learn more
- Automatically sync custom shapes to all your devices using iCloud. Learn more
- Automatically sync custom templates to all your devices using iCloud. Learn more
- Add alignment guides to master pages to help with layout.
- Improved performance while collaborating on documents.
- Insert tables of contents and edit grouped objects while collaborating.
- In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, you can now type vertically in your entire document or in an individual text box. Learn more

New in Pages 7.3 for Mac
Offer your books for download or purchase on Apple Books. Learn more
New in Pages 7.2 for Mac
- Use Dark Mode to give Pages a dramatic dark look. Requires macOS Mojave. Learn more
- Easily record, edit, and play audio right on a page. Learn more
- Support for Continuity Camera allows you to take a photo or scan a document with your iPhone or iPad and it automatically appears in your document on your Mac. Requires macOS Mojave and iOS 12. Learn more
- Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
- Performance and stability improvements.
New in Pages 7.1 for Mac
- Track text changes in shapes and text boxes.
- Add colors and images to backgrounds in page layout documents.
- Give charts a new look with rounded corners on columns and bars.
- Add mathematical equations to page layout documents using LaTeX or MathML notation. Learn more
- Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
- Improved support for Arabic and Hebrew. Learn more
New in Pages 7.0 for Mac
- Use new book templates to create interactive EPUB books. Learn more
- View two pages side-by-side, and format them as double-page spreads. Learn more
- Collaborate in real time on documents stored in Box. Requires macOS High Sierra. Learn more
- Add an image gallery to view a collection of photos on the same page.
- Create master pages to keep the design consistent across your page layout document.
- Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.
- Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
- Additional options for reducing the file size of documents.
- New option to automatically format fractions as you type.
New in Pages 6.3 for Mac
- Improved PDF export lets you view a document's table of contents in the sidebar in Preview and other PDF viewer apps.
- Drag and drop rows in tables that span multiple pages. Learn more
- Performance and stability improvements
New in Pages 6.2 for Mac
- Enhance your documents using a library of over 500 professionally drawn shapes. Learn more
- Reply to comments and join threaded conversations. Learn more
- Add linked text boxes so text easily flows from one place to another. Learn more
- New auto-correction and text replacement options save time while typing. Learn more
- Export documents as fixed layout ePub books. Learn more
- Change margins, headers, footers and paper size while collaborating. Learn more
- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic languages.
- The Stock and Currency functions now return data from the previous market day’s close. Learn more
New in Pages 6.1 for Mac
- Add bookmarks to easily link from one part of your document to another. Learn more
- Add elegant mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation. Learn more
- Quickly open password-protected documents using Touch ID on the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Learn more
- Easily replace fonts throughout an entire document.
- Import and export documents in Rich Text Format (RTF). Learn more
- New leader lines make pie charts easier to read.
- New stock and currency functions provide up-to-date securities data in tables.
- Customize dates, times, and currencies for your language or region.
New in Pages 6.0.5 for Mac
- Support for Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro lets you easily edit text, shapes, tables and charts.
- Stability and performance improvements.
New in Pages 6.0 for Mac
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- Real-time collaboration (feature in beta)
- Edit a document with others at the same time in Pages on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud.com.
- Share your document publicly or with specific people.
- See who else is in a document.
- See participants’ cursors as they’re editing.
- Open and edit Pages ’05 documents. Learn more
- Use tabs to work with multiple documents in one window.
- Wide color gamut image support.