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Create a Document in Pages for Mac

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show how to create a new document using Pages for the Mac.

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To create a new document, we click "File" at the top
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We click "New..." or press the "Command" and "N" keys on the keyboard
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An option of either using a blank document or one of the pre-chosen preconfigured templates will be shown.

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Let's choose a blank document
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If we don't want to go over that extra step in the future when we create a new document, we click "Pages"
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We click "Preferences..."
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We can configure "For New Documents" to "Use template
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Blank". This will configure new documents to always use the blank template.

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We can click "Change Template..." if there is a specific template that we are using a lot
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This will change the default template to a specific template.
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We click "Cancel" and leave the setting on the blank template
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We close the menu
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Whenever we press "Command" and "N", Pages will bring up a new blank template without having to choose between different styles
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This was how to create a new document in Pages on the Mac. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thank you for watching!