Q: Pages 5 Where is Advanced Find

If it's true that this is missing, then it is a truly ghastly blunder. It renders the new, highly touted Pages 5 as useless to me. I'll clutch my Pages 4 tightly to my chest.

While I waited for someone to chime in to tell me the secret of where Advanced Find & Replace got buried or come up with some arcane key combo to invoke it, as I had time, I dug through other threads, MDN, etc. to find other numerous reports like mine, so it appears it is indeed gone.

So many words in my head to describe this: disastrous, inexcusable, ***!

How could any modern word processor be considered a valid tool without this BASIC function.

I picked up on another fly in this ointment of disappointment. It's the iPad GOTCHA that you get no warning for. I saw this in another thread so felt the need to write it up in this reply.

If you upgrade your Pages for iPad in iTunes or accept it on the iPad or iPhone from v1.7.2 to v2.0, the nasty surprise is that the file format is not backwards compatible with Pages 4 for desktop. If you open the file in the new iPad Pages, it updates the file format so locks you out of it on the desktop Pages 4 if you work in the iCloud. I am not EVEN going to experiment with this bit of nastiness to corroborate it. My time and work are too valuable to play Russian Roulette for fun.

I dearly hope that all made a fresh Time Machine backup before all of this began. I navigated to the folder of apps and set the way back machine to a week ago and thankfully, found the old version and was able to downgrade my iPad.

Be very careful when hitting that Update All button in iTunes or you could get yourself in a pickle. I don't know if there's a way to isolate a particular app from the Update All stream.

Thank you for reminding me to do this. I went straight to Pages and let them have it.

A hue and cry is inadequate for the oversight.

Pitchforks, torches and angry villagers storming the castle is a more balanced approach to the Pages 5 monstrosity.

OMG. I just had ANOTHER sinking feeling.

I logged into iCloud via the browser to look at some files. My finger wavered over the mouse clicker.

I thought to myself, "What if Pages for iCloud changes the file format thus, from another vector, locking me out of my files on Pages 4 for desktop?!"

I backed my mouse arrow slowly away and closed the browser window. I'm getting totally spooked by this calamity.

I know it's nearly Halloween, but enough already! I'm becoming afraid of my own shadow!

Thanks, floobyduster for some abstruse work there.

OMG! This workaround sounds like it's from the nightmare world of... Windows!

I had seen these commands off the menu bar, but were unintuitive enough to me that I couldn't figure out how to make them work, so thanks for the workflow.

This Rube Goldberg Machine work around might work for a couple of one-offs, but I have to do numerous invisible switches on a nearly daily basis and numerous switches within a single document: spaces, non-breaking spaces, carriage returns, line breaks, paragraph breaks, and on and on in a single document, cleaning up after sloppy customers. All these repeated trips to the menu bar to perform intermediary steps would be crazy-making.

I'll have to stick with Pages 4 until there's a fix (and make sure I don't accidentally update it in the App Store) and start exploring other word processor options in the meantime.