Typing in Pages but no text appearing

I think I've solved it! The weird ghost question mark - boxed - to be more accurate was a clue that it was a font issue. It seems the font I use was disabled - maybe because it was duplicated in Font book?

I don't know, I found the suggestion in another post about boxed question marks in Pages and I followed the trail of breadcrumbs. Now I can see my text in Numbers, write in a new Pages doc and I'm guessing I'll be able to reinstall my Text Edit app and use it.

Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks!

Hi there. Hope you had a good Christmas break! I'm back on this and nothing has changed.

I can open an existing document and the text is there. Presumably I could duplicate it and then overwrite it.

BUT I shouldn't have to do that.

When I open a new document, and start to type a weird question mark makes a brief appearance and then disappears and the cursor pings to the right of the screen. If I Select all and delete the little red dot and start to type the whole ghost-question-mark-cursor-ping-to-the-right happens again.

Interestingly, I'm also having an issue with multiple Numbers files - documents with text are showing as blank pages and I can't access the text, even though you can see at the bottom of the page that the text is out there somewhere.

Is there a connection? Why is this happening. I can't get anything done.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Hey I just remembered that my Text Edit was doing the same thing and I deleted it a couple of weeks ago - just decided not to use it anymore.

Should I export these files to Microsoft formats - Excel, etc?

It seems to me that there is a conflict or something. It can't be coincidence that the apps that are no longer functioning properly are the Mac ones?

Thanks.

I really need to access my documents then I can do my work but I'm stuck. Come on Apple, this cannot be acceptable to you! Please tell me that hours and hours of work has not just disappeared and is lost?

(Also, back to the first reply, my document margins seem to be fine. Not sure why they would just reset themselves into some weird format that I wouldn't have set them to in the first place? I'm simply opening a new blank file in order to write as I usually do.)

Sorry, I'm just so frustrated and feeling increasingly anxious about all this.

Also, if I seem to disappear for a while it's only because it is 12.50am here in the UK and I can't fight my computer anymore tonight...