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I made the mistake of inserting corrections into one document and then continuing with a second document later on (I wasn't careful about the name the name I assigned to the edited version). Now I want to go over them both and make the corrections. How does one bring up two documents and compare them?
Thanks.

iMac 2.66 GHz 20", Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Feb 16, 2010 4:59 AM

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KOENIG Yvan

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Feb 18, 2010 3:11 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

It's normal.
Pages used it's own scheme to do this kind of things before their delivery in the operating system.
We must wait for the next major upgrade to get an application taking benefit of the new sysrtem's feature.
So, we will have only one file storing the pairs used by Auto-substitution, only one to store the custom dictionary.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 18 février 2010 12:11:09

Feb 18, 2010 4:57 AM in response to ark-1

ark,

Open the System Preferences app and select "Keyboard & Mouse".

Click the Keyboard Shortcuts button.

Click the + button and select the application Pages.app. If Pages isn't on the list, select Other... and browse the Applications folder for it. Pages.app should be found in the iWork 09 folder.

Type the Menu Title exactly as it appears in the command tree that you use with the mouse. In this case you will type: Look Up in Dictionary and Thesaurus

Then enter your custom shortcut, click Add and you're done.

Jerry

ark-1 Author

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Feb 16, 2010 5:13 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

Thanks Jerry - but I'm shocked! No way to compare two documents???? That's such a basic in Word. Oh well.

fruhulda

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Feb 16, 2010 5:32 AM in response to ark-1

You can also have one doc above the other. It will more like in Word or AppleWorks, which also have it.

ark-1 Author

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Feb 16, 2010 9:25 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

I agree Jerry - but wouldn't having a convenient way to access a dictionary or thesaurus, or an option to compare documents be sort of an industry standard?

fruhulda

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Feb 16, 2010 9:33 AM in response to ark-1

Aren't you making it difficult for you? You can as described above compare documents and there are, at least in English, dictionaries and thesaurus. In Swedish the thesaurus only point to Wikipedia.

fruhulda

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Feb 16, 2010 11:10 AM in response to ark-1

It is a bug. I you keep that window open and right -click on the word again it'll wrk. You can have the dictionary window in the Dock. Click in the yellow button up to the left.

ark-1 Author

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Feb 16, 2010 12:13 PM in response to fruhulda

Okay, thanks. Is it only a bug in Pages? As it seems to work in the email system.

fruhulda

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Feb 16, 2010 1:03 PM in response to ark-1

Yes, as far as I know it is only in Pages and it appeared with a Snow Leopard update. I can't remember with which one though.

KOENIG Yvan

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Feb 18, 2010 3:07 AM in response to ark-1

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 18 février 2010 12:07:02

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