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 Pages just yet. I wish they’d get it all together and then just leave it alone.
On May 5, 2014, at 10:07 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 and > hopefully will come back soon. > > CB > > On 5/3/14, 3:13 PM, Phil Halton 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. >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > 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.
