Thanks Ronnie.   Help was forthcoming and I found a fix myself 
Severin 

Sent from Sev's iPhone

> On 20 Jan 2019, at 19:16, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Severin,
> 
> Unfortunately I can’t be of much help as I’ve never used Pages on iPad.
> Others who do use Pages on iPad should be able to help you more.
> But as a starter you might find Apple’s “Pages help for iPad” of some help.
> About word processing and page layout documents:
> 
> https://help.apple.com/pages/ipad/4.3/#/tan6129a1862
> 
> https://help.apple.com/pages/ipad/4.3/
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ronni
> 
>  Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB 
> 
> 
>> On 20 Jan 2019, at 5:52 pm, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I have copied and pasted a large block of text and it now seems to behave as 
>> if it is a single block or graphic. How do I make it just text?  
>> Severin Crisp
>> 
>> Sent from Sev's iPad
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