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Adding Curly Brackets for Multiple Lines of Text in Pages

How to insert Curly Brackets for a few lines of text, or a sub-paragraph? It's easy for one line...does Pages NOT have this capability?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 8:30 AM

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Oct 11, 2020 11:18 AM in response to Greg C Wilson

Pages Find/Replace tool acts on the entire document. Additionally, it is an anemic Find/Replace that can't be told where the text begins, ends, or its selected range. LibreOffice Writer, being a clone of MS Word provides a robust Find/Replace tool that overcomes these limitations with better controls and allows regular expressions/captures.


For instance, I have the following selected text in LibreOffice Writer 7:


and I want to bracket the paragraph with curly braces:


The following Find/Replace panel achieves the above bracketing:

Adding Curly Brackets for Multiple Lines of Text in Pages

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