Dear MacRumours Contributors,
I am converting my Word Documents to Pages.
This necessitates passing them through TextEdit, to remove all the undocumented nasties Word leaves in files.
In addition am using a grammar checker which also uses RTF.
Unfortunately switching from Pages to TextEdit and back changes all Styles to Freeform, and although a document might look the same, it is different.
Specifically any points before paragraph embedded in a Style, are transferred to the previous paragraph as points after paragraph, irrespective of the previous paragraph's original Style.
I think this is a bug, either in Pages or TextEdit. Who do I tell? Or is it already well known? -- I couldn't find a thread dealing with it.
Changing the newly imposed Free Form Style back to Body Style is not easy, because 'Free Form' is not offered in the Drop Down Style Menu in the Find Section. You might have a 100,000 word document freshly repasted into Pages, all of it in Free Form, but it is not a Style option you can choose!
Ironically, it is in the replace section!
I have accidentally, totally by chance, managed to get Free Form listed in the Drop Down Menu on one occasion, but could not remember how I did it.
So I know it can be done.
Please anyone,
How do you force Pages to list Free Form as a Style in the Find section of Find and Replace?
Thanks in anticipation.
I am converting my Word Documents to Pages.
This necessitates passing them through TextEdit, to remove all the undocumented nasties Word leaves in files.
In addition am using a grammar checker which also uses RTF.
Unfortunately switching from Pages to TextEdit and back changes all Styles to Freeform, and although a document might look the same, it is different.
Specifically any points before paragraph embedded in a Style, are transferred to the previous paragraph as points after paragraph, irrespective of the previous paragraph's original Style.
I think this is a bug, either in Pages or TextEdit. Who do I tell? Or is it already well known? -- I couldn't find a thread dealing with it.
Changing the newly imposed Free Form Style back to Body Style is not easy, because 'Free Form' is not offered in the Drop Down Style Menu in the Find Section. You might have a 100,000 word document freshly repasted into Pages, all of it in Free Form, but it is not a Style option you can choose!
Ironically, it is in the replace section!
I have accidentally, totally by chance, managed to get Free Form listed in the Drop Down Menu on one occasion, but could not remember how I did it.
So I know it can be done.
Please anyone,
How do you force Pages to list Free Form as a Style in the Find section of Find and Replace?
Thanks in anticipation.
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