VikingOSX wrote:
Recent versions of Pages offer a Blank (word processing) and Blank Layout (layout mode) template. Choose the latter to initiate that type of new Pages document.
AHA! ...I hadn't noticed and wasn't aware of that distinction.
So, I was using 'document' although I was using text boxes anyway for the written parts.
What about "Blank Landscape"? That doesn't seem to have a 'Layout' version
What template are you using? Are you collaborating on a document someone else has created? Is your Accent color in System Preferences set to Graphite?
I'm starting with blank layouts.
Not collaborating or working on something already created by someone else.
The accent color on my macOS was Graphite! I didn't even know but that explains why the thumbnails were highlighting as grey. I've just changed the color in Systems Preferences and now the thumbnails are reflecting that system wide change.
Now, that I opened a blank layout when I add a page it is getting added to the bottom as it should be and I can now drag and drop the thumbnails around, thus changing the page sequence if need be, although it's not needed now that the pages are getting added on properly at the bottom.
However, it's still not doing that in the document which is weird and wrong. I'm turning every stone over to see whether there is some preference enabling that but I can't find anything.
The Blank Layout is at least an improvement and means I can use it again for my projects although, because I'm using images, the Blank Landscape was a nice format as it gives me the width to do the images justice it behaves like blank wordprocessing with the same misbehaviours
