thanks Chris, for now, as a work-around, I simply select the entire doc, create
a new text edit window with selected text and do the find/replace there, then
copy and paste back to Pages.
MS Word is still looking pretty good for most of my grown-up word processing
needs, but I’ve not given up on
Found similar questions in other discussion groups and folks have
verified that the new toy version of pages no longer lets you
search/replace non-printing characters like tabs, linefeed and carriage
returns even if you properly paste them in. I guess that fell by the
wayside in the re-write an
thanks, I went into system prefs/keyboard/shortcuts/categories and selected
"services. There's a treasure trove of text manipulating services to enable,
especially with the addition of the services pack I downloaded a week ago.
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On May 5, 2014, at 12:53 AM, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> RE the
RE the services issue I think you might find the TextEdit still there if you
look carefully but otherwise I'd suggest it depends on what your default app
for opening rtf files is.
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Yes, I tried inserting two return characters, copying them and inserting them
into the find field. the find/replace button remains dimmed and VO doesn't
recognize those characters.
BTW: I recently installed Nysus Writer Pro demo version and now in the services
menu, instead of the option to open
Hello Phil,
Have you tried going back to the document from the Find window and putting in a
Return character then copying that to the clipboard and pasting it into the
Replace field? I've noticed that some of the new line characters coming from a
different source don't seem to be recognised cor
Hello Anne,
I tried this and it does not work. I selected and copied an instance of two new
line characters and pasted them into the find field of find and replace. I then
pasted them into the replace field and deleted one of them. the characters are
there, but VO does not recognize them as it o
Hello Phil,
If you can find a first example of what you want to change, you can highlight
it and copy it to the clipboard. You can then paste it into the Find command.
Cheers,
Anne
On 3 May 2014, at 21:13, Phil Halton wrote:
> In text edit I can search for and replace such characters as new
