If you're a big fan of Pages and use it a lot for long reports and papers, try this:
Open your document. Don't show any extraneous document features. Hide them or turn them off. So your View menu should look like this:
No rulers, no guides, etc.
Then, go into Full Screen mode. Change the Full Screen background colour to white (to match the document page.) If you're using a font size between 9 and 11, zoom in a bit to 150% or 200%, or to taste.
Feels good, doesn't it? Just you and the words.
Note that this seems to render a lot of the "distraction free" word processing Apps on the Mac App Store pretty redundant. Here, you've got the power of Pages, but with a nice, soothing "focus mode" you can invoke at will. Guide the pointer to the top of the screen and your tools become visible.
Open your document. Don't show any extraneous document features. Hide them or turn them off. So your View menu should look like this:
No rulers, no guides, etc.
Then, go into Full Screen mode. Change the Full Screen background colour to white (to match the document page.) If you're using a font size between 9 and 11, zoom in a bit to 150% or 200%, or to taste.
Feels good, doesn't it? Just you and the words.
Note that this seems to render a lot of the "distraction free" word processing Apps on the Mac App Store pretty redundant. Here, you've got the power of Pages, but with a nice, soothing "focus mode" you can invoke at will. Guide the pointer to the top of the screen and your tools become visible.
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