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In Pages, I couldn't get both the date and the time inserted in the combination of formats that I wanted. (You can see the available formats by double-clicking on an inserted date/time field.) Here's how I added a customized format. I’m working with Pages 3.0.2 and Mac 10.5.3 on an iMac G5. One has to be comfortable editing a plist file.

Quit Pages. Select Pages in the Finder, Control-click on it, and pick Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Then, after backing it up somewhere just in case, open the following file: You can do this using TextEdit or the Property List Editor (if you have that installed). In TextEdit, look for the following lines:

 <string>Custom</string> <integer>0&...

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