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You can insert images (from anywhere) into pages using Shift + Command + V or Insert menu, drop down to Choose...
You're not stuck with media/iPhoto.
As for layout you have to make sure the images are set to floating, not inline. When it's set to inline they are auto aligned on a grid, much like word does.
To scale the images together you must first group them, it's up there in the Arrange menu, or alt+cmd+G
It's still a shit application and Indesign is what you really need.
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Totally right about InDesign and I do have it on this machine but A. I forgot I had it and B. and perhaps more importantly, I don't know how to use it.
Got there in the end and managed to wake up early enough to take everything to the printers this morning and best of all it doesn't look like it was designed in PAGES the night before. But I'm putting that down to good paper stock.
CYOA
Pages: what a fucking cunt of a program.
I have 14 images I would like to insert into a document which I foolishly started in fucking Pages.
Why is there no seemingly obvious way to resize all the fucking images as a group and then arrange in a fucking grid formation without completely fucking up everything else in the fucking document? Surely that's a fairly fucking normal thing to want to do and shouldn't require fucking around with countless fucking settings in the middle of the fucking night? Especially when, still unable to get the fucking thing to work I tried to resort to trusty Word, which DOES function like it's fucking supposed to, only to find I don't have it installed and nor do I have a fucking disc/serial with me.
And another fucking thing. Fuck Apple for making you have to import images into fucking iPhoto or Aperture just to bring them into a document via clicking the media button.
Is it really down to fucking Apache and their fucking open office to save me?
Also AirDrop is fucked for me since El Capitan. So fuck you Cupertino fuck-knuckles with your fucking stylus plugged directly into your fucking tablets to charge.
Bus wankers.