'Clear format' equivalent in Pages?

Yes

I alreadyb responded to this question this week.

Export > Plain Text

will do the trick.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 20 novembre 2009 19:06:06

I should have been more specific. My query is about importing text from other sources into a Pages document, clearing their format(s), and applying a 'normal' style.




There are basically two methods. As mentioned above, you can export the original content as plain text to remove all formatting and then import/paste it into Pages. Or, you could simply enter some text into a Pages "dummy" paragraph, modify the style for the paragraph to whatever you are calling a "normal style" and then simply open the source text in a suitable application, copy it to memory, and paste it to your selected/highlighted Pages "dummy" paragraph using the "edit > Paste and Match Style" menu (Alt-Shift-Command-V shortcut) option to change text formatting to your "normal" style.

To clarify the method.

Select plain body text in your document, or if it is not plain body text:

+Menu > View > Show Styles Drawer (or click the little blue ¶ on the toolbar) > Paragraph Style > Body+

Copy your text:

+Menu > Edit > Paste and Match Style (option shift command v)+

Peter

My own soluce is to use this huge AppleScript which is always available in my 'Scripts Menu item

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set the clipboard to (the clipboard as text)
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Triggering this script I get pure text datas which I may paste everywhere.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 21 novembre 2009 18:58:21

You can also use Edit > Paste and Match Style