Apple Pages: display more than two pages at once?

[i_like_frappuccino]

Hey community!

I strongly believe that for most writing-related activities, Apple Pages is more than enough. In fact, I've made it a part of our company culture to use the most lightweight tools instead of overly complex ones, so we're using the entire Apple Office Suite productively - and most of us are loving it. It's like decluttering your workflow.

A couple of weeks ago we got a bunch of 49" ultra-wide-screen monitors. We used to work on internal MacBook Pro 16" screens before, now we're going bigger.

But now we're facing a problem: apparently there is no way to display more than two pages side-by-side when working in Apple Pages - we'd need five or six to make use of our beautiful new screens. In MS Office, I can simply use the zoom slider to display everything from one page to literally dozens - Pages, however, seems to limit me to two pages at once.

Is there a function I haven't found yet? Or is Pages really that limited in terms of its page view concept?

I'd greatly appreciate any kind of reply. Have a great Sunday, folks!

J

 

[bogdanw]

Only two pages.
"You can show two pages side by side as you work, which is particularly helpful if your document uses facing pages (with designated left and right pages).
Click the Zoom pop-up menu in the toolbar and choose Two Pages."
https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/change-the-document-view-tan484d10397

LibreOffice can show multiple pages, is free and opens .pages files
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

 

[i_like_frappuccino]

Thanks so much for your reply! I'll take a look at LibreOffice for the future. For now we've moved to MS Office, but it's so bloated it makes me unhappy. We'll see.

Two pages only. What a strange and unnecessary limitation that is...

 

[apple fan23]

This! ⬆️⬆️ The ONLY reason I am still using Word. Such a stupid limitation...

 

[Cyby-CyberDog]

Well, I might be misunderstanding the question. But the added screenshot, for expample, shows 12 Pages documents opened at the same time on one display. Just move and resize the document windows to get the view you need!

Open all the documents you need by double clicking on the file or using Archief Open (Dutch interface).

 

[apple fan23]

Ah but those are separate windows, or even separate documents. We want something like this.

 

[Cyby-CyberDog]

AFAIK there are no utilities adding that to MacOS.

 

[apple fan23]

there should be!

 

[Cyby-CyberDog]

I think this is the only option: