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 only says "space" when I arrow across the contents of the find and replace fields. The correct number of characters are there, but they are not reported as new lines, just as "space". Then, the replace buttons are dimmed as if nothing were in the find and replace fields. It is strange that you can't search and replace new lines in pages, but you can do so in text edit. special characters such as tab and new line are often the subject of search and replace actions in any good word processor. Any ideas about this?
On May 3, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In text edit I can search for and replace such characters as new lines, by >> pressing option return in the find or replace field. In pages, these >> keystrokes don't produce new line characters. I tried looking for the new >> line and carriage return characters in the characters window by pressing >> command control space, but I couldn't find them anywhere. >> How can I search for new line characters in pages? I often reformat word >> documents by removing multiple new line characters and replacing them with >> only one such character so that they read better. >> At present, I accomplish this in text edit by searching for New line, New >> line and replacing it with New line and replacing all occurrences. As I >> said, I can't do this in pages and I'm out of answers. >> >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
