Read More link for pages

You may need to add a line of code to your template. The code is below, but you may need to enclose it in php tags depending on where you insert it:

global $more; $more = 0;

vtxyzzy; is this code inserted into the pages.php file or somewhere else?

It goes into the template that is displaying full posts, but you want to display excerpts. That depends on your theme, but is often index.php.

I have not used any themes that have a pages.php file. If you meant page.php, that is probably not the file you want. The more tag is most often seen on pages that show multiple posts.