I use the Find and Replace function quite frequently for my work, and with this new update, it no longer works. The Find / Find and Replace window appears, but it doesn't actually find (or highlight) the word, even though it is absolutely within the document. And then of course, it will not replace it, either. Any solutions?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.5
With all respect UncleFlinsky, I followed your advice and discovered I could fix this problem in one minute:
fix it now in less than one minute
the problem occurs when the computer is shut down with open documents and the option "reopen windows when logging back in" is chosen on shut down. each document that is "reopened" automatically will no longer be able to use find
The Pages feedback option is right where you say and it only took a few minutes to fill out the form where I complained bitterly. Ruggiero's right to encourage us all to pressure Apple on this issue.
I have this situation, too. Pages, version 11.2 (7032.0.145). I'm a veteran Pages user, and this is a new problem. I can quit Pages and reopen it (without restarting my Mac entirely) to regain the Find function, but I believe the Find disfunction is a bug that should be fixed.
VigingOSX ... Thanks for your post. I was having the same issue ... your post helped me get the functionality to work again. I "unselected" the "whole words" option and the find is now working as expected. Thanks.
I have Pages version 11.1 (presume 11.2 will come eventually)
I have MacOS version 12.0.1 (Monterey)
Same problem as grinninbarrett described above. Updated to OS 12.0, tried find and replace in Pages again, still didn't work. Followed UncleFlinsky's advice and the find feature works again. I see no update for a significant bug Pages, but shutting down, turning off all other apps and starting with only a fresh page isn't functional.
What UncleFlinsky said just worked for me. It should be fixed, though. This is clearly a bug. We shouldn't have to close all documents etc to get Pages' Find to start working again when it has worked just fine before recently, before whatever this update did to it.
To me, none of the proposed solutions (though I didn't take the time to uninstall Pages in Safe Mode, I just uninstalled it, deleted several files from ~/Library, as well as the app itself) actually work LONG-term. They return SHORT-term functionality, but the bug seems to have "many lives", more than a cat :-); it simply reappears.
If you not done so yet, please register a bug report to Apple, but activating the Provide Pages Feedback under the main Pages listing in the menu bar.
Inexcusable! Makes me (well, not really) want to return to using Word, which has a well functioning Find/Replace :-).
That is not my experience. My experience is that you can not leave a Pages document open when you shutdown.
If you do leave one open, the find function does not work, and you have to exit and restart pages to get it to work.
Yes its a bug, and annoying, but the workaround is not onerous, at least for me.
I have tried this and it worked. Thanks. I mean that if Find quit working, I simply closed that document and then reopened the same document and then Find worked again. I did not have to close Pages or restart my computer or anything. This is a bug. I hope everyone reports it to Apple. If enough people do that, then maybe it might actually get fixed. It shouldn’t have to have a workaround like this. It should just work. It used to.
Same bug for me (yes, it is obviously a bug !).
Either Mac OS and/or Page ?
The way to get rid of it seems rather aleatory.
The only way it might disappear is in the hands of Apple developers.
Cross our finger and call for Apple technical support so that the glitch can "climb" to senior technicians…
Sorry for my clumsy French english !
For what it's worth I had a broken search function for a specific Pages document. The easy fix was to copy and paste the original content to a new page document which, for the new document, corrected the problem.
Even_dead, you don't even have to quit Pages. Just close the document and reopen. And don't neglect to complain bitterly about this bug. Just click on Pages (next to the Apple icon) and hit Send Feedback.
With respect…in my case, the Find AND REPLACE function, has ceased to exist!!! Is there any hint as to why that may be? It’s not something that can even be selected any more. (FIND works ok; but Find AND REPLACE, again, simply doesn’t exist to be selected. Why on Earth would that be???)
Grinnin and DP, I just tested your thesis and found that Find and Replace does work (of course first you have to close and reopen the **** document) but Replace isn't selectable until you type something into the Replace line.
This solution worked for me. I made a slight modification to the instructions:
First, I quit out of everything and then restarted my computer.
Next, I opened Pages and closed every single open document.
Next, I quit Pages again and restarted computer.
Next, I opened pages and then only one document. Then the find feature worked again.
Hi,
For me not only Find&Replace does not work but also Find function does not work at all. Yes, if I restart the Pages it works.
But it looks like a new bug, because I used Pages for 3 years now and never happened but now is constant.
Pages 11.2 - Find and Replace Not Working
