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Welcome to chapter two in this look at iWork. This chapter starts our exploration of the word processing application that's included with iWork and that word processing application, of course, is called Pages. So if you click on that inkwell in your applications folder or in your doc, you'll see this and in fact you'll see the template chooser, which I'm about to explain in just a moment. But for those of you who don't know what word processing is, I'm just kidding. I'm not really going to define word processing. Of course you know what word processing is. You do it every day. Probably it was one of your first tasks when you used a computer and in fact I've done a little word processing here with Pages. I've typed in some text and moved that text around. I've also made the somewhat ironic choice, I'm sure you'll find that my sense of irony is very, very sharp indeed, but I've used the handwriting type of font to demonstrate word processing. So let's talk about what happens when you start in a document. Let's just get the most basic thing out of the way first. When you launch Pages, you will see this. From a file menu you can start a new document by choosing new or choosing new from template chooser. I'm going to close this just to show you that it's going to be the same difference either way. New or new from template chooser is going to bring up that dialog box. So this is the template chooser. Lots of templates to choose from. Of course you can narrow down your selections. Blank only has one template as you might expect. But resumes, reports, envelopes, forms, business cards, all of these templates are there and preinstalled with the application. So I'm going to choose resumes and I'm sure, like me, will want to show off your photography skills. We'll start to generate a modern photography resume here and click on choose and we're off to the races. It might be pre-populated with some information that Pages already knows about from your installation, but what's worth pointing out most of all in this module is similar to the Keynote discussion, if you indeed looked at the Keynote discussion first, you can go to the pages menu and choose preferences and determine what happens when you open up a new document. You can show the template chooser, which again is the default behavior, or you can use the template of and then you can choose from your template chooser and maybe you'll have a modern report, a school report, I'll choose this one and now, once I give the general preferences a close, then we'll talk about some of the other preferences as we go throughout this tutorial. Don't worry about it. But now let's see what happens if I do file new. Of course I can use the command N as well, but here we go. And as I just told Pages to do, it generates a school report called Body Report, but of course, this is just a template and has some placeholder text. Unless you can read Latin, which I can not. So there we go. There's your introduction to Pages and I'm going to close this and because I haven't made any changes it didn't even prompt me to save. But that's how you get started using this very powerful word processing application.