Mac Full Screen Reading


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I have found a feature in Windows Office 2007 called "Full Screen Reading" very useful for reading documents. I have both Mac Office 2008 and Pages but have not been able to find these in either of them. Is there a way to duplicate this feature in any of them? Thanks.

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Seems pretty straightforward to me in Pages.

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In Office 2007 it has functions to increase the screen size which makes it much more legible and flip through pages with either the right and left keyboard buttons or up and down. This makes reading much easier. In pages all it does is make it full-screen.

Full screen is only in Pages 09 though, so if you're on 08 you won't see it.

I actually have that in Office 2008.

Easy way to get it: do a zoom on the screen (hold control and do the scroll gesture on the mouse).

There must be a better way than that?

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In Office 2007 it has functions to increase the screen size which makes it much more legible and flip through pages with either the right and left keyboard buttons or up and down. This makes reading much easier. In pages all it does is make it full-screen.

Pages gives you the ability to zoom in and out as well. Flipping through pages can be achieved by holding down command + arrow keys.

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Pages gives you the ability to zoom in and out as well. Flipping through pages can be achieved by holding down command + arrow keys.

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Wow! Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for!

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I actually have that in Office 2008.

Really? Where? There is a Full Screen option under View, but that just removes the toolbar and 'toolbox'. In Pages 09 it blanks out the background so you can only see the document on the screen. I thought that's what you were after.

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Really? Where? There is a Full Screen option under View, but that just removes the toolbar and 'toolbox'. In Pages 09 it blanks out the background so you can only see the document on the screen. I thought that's what you were after.

Sorry I meant Pages 08.

it's not free anymore?

Also, you can use quicklook.

Thanks, haven't thought of that. It could also be a viable solution.

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