Hello Andrew, You can’t select text across a page boundary in Pages unless you apply the fix provided by Barry Hadder. The fix works great and I recommend it to all Pages users.
If you can cope with French, here’s a link to a page on my website where you can download the xipped folder and there’s an explanation of what to do with it. Cheers, Anne > On 14 Apr 2015, at 22:07, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is my conundrum. I have a document opened in Pages. I need to change > the font of the title to Verdana 14 bold. I've selected the heading, went to > text formatting, changed the font and made it bold and it stuck. Now I need > to change the remainder of the text which runs into two pages to Verdana 12 > point. I select the remainder of the text with command+shift+down arrow, go > text formatting area, choose Verdana, type in the value for font size as 12, > and I go back to the body of the text and it has not been changed. Why or > why? It's driving me nuts. This time round, I wasn't doing the job for > money so it didn't matter but if I did have to do a paid job, how do I > manage? Why doesn't it work consistently? Have I done something wrong? I > also notice that sometimes whatever I can accomplish in Pages is limited to > each specific page, I mean Pages doesn't easily transit from page to page but > causes VoiceOver to behave in a strange way. Once or twice I had to close > the app and reopen it and than reopen the document I was working on because > my keyboard stopped responding in Pages. Can anyone please shine some light > on this? If I had a deadline on this job, I would have lost the customer. > > Many thanks and forgive the frustrated tone. > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
