In order to dive a bit deeper on the brand new cursor and its interaction models, I spoke to Apple SVP Craig Federighi about its development and some of the choices by the teams at Apple that made it. It’s a seminal bit of remixing from one of the most closely watched idea factories on the planet. The iPad’s cursor, I think, deserves closer examination. Then, a few weeks ago, Apple dropped a new kind of pointer - a hybrid between these two worlds of pixels and pushes. This, finally, was human-centric computing. If you dragged your finger, the content came with it. If you touched a thing, it did something. Touch interactions brought with them “stickiness” - the 1:1 mating of intent and action. Replacing your digital ghost in the machine with your physical meatspace fingertip. The iPhone and later the iPad didn’t immediately re-invent the cursor. But for the past few years, thanks to touch devices, we’ve had a new, fleshier, sprinter: our finger. There are many self-assured conjectures about the change, but few actual answers - all we know for sure is that, like a ready athlete, the arrow pointer has been there, waiting to leap towards our goal for decades. We don’t know exactly why the original ‘ straight up arrow’ envisioned by Doug Engelbart took on the precise angled stance we know today. For the first time, we saw ourselves awkwardly in a screen. * Unlike the text entry models of before, which placed character after character in a facsimile of a typewriter, this was a tether that connected us, embryonic, to the aleph. It was hominem in machina - humanity in the machine. The star of the show, though, was the small line of pixels that made up the mouse cursor. It was demonstrated in the ‘ Mother of all demos’ - a presentation roughly an hour-and-a-half long that contained not only the world’s first look at the mouse but also hyper linking, document collaboration, video conferencing and more. The original cursor was a dot, then a line pointing straight upwards. It’s an instrument of precision, of tiny click targets on a screen feet away. Slightly angled, with a straight edge and a 45 degree slope leading to a sharp pixel-by-pixel point. Its everyday utility, pioneered at SRI and Xerox Parc and later combined with a bit of iconic * work from Susan Kare at Apple, has made the pointer our avatar in digital space for nearly 40 years.
Apple version of word for ipad password#
If you add a password to a document or change an existing password, it applies only to that version of the document and to subsequent versions.Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use. If you don’t see the document you want, try searching for it, or tap Browse or Recents at the bottom of the screen. Replace the current version with the preview version: Tap Restore.Ĭlose the preview and return to the current version: Tap Close. (The original version is available in the document manager, where the copied version also appears.) Pages opens the copy as a new document for you to edit. Save a copy of the version shown in the preview: Tap Save a Copy. You can search for text in the preview, and you can copy text and objects. With the document manager in browse view, tap Select at the top of the screen, then tap the document (a checkmark appears). Open Pages, and if a document is already open, tap Documents in the top-left corner to see all your documents. Restore an earlier version of a document.Export to Word, PDF, or another file format.Change the look of chart text and labels.Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings.Change a chart from one type to another.Select tables, cells, rows, and columns.Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image.Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text.Make characters superscript or subscript.Select text and place the insertion point.Intro to images, charts, and other objects.
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