What Decides the 'Default Body Style' in Pages?

Hi Dave,

Title, Subtitle, Heading 1, Heading 2, and some others are "heading" styles. One feature common to most 'headings' and similar uses is that documents, in general, do not have a group of two, three or more "Heading" paragraphs in a row (and particularly, of the same 'heading' level or type) before continuing with the body of the text.

The single Heading type style is followed by either another different level heading type, or by a continuation of the body text. If it is a different level heading, you'd need to change the style in any case—either from the style of the heading to the heading style of the new level, or from the heading style above to the body style of the following non-header body paragraphs.

The automatic return to a body style, if working correctly, saves you the step of changing the style after any header paragraph in the more frequent occasions in which the document continues with body text.

You can alter the "after Paragraph" behaviour of styles by changing the "Following Paragraph Style setting in the Format inspector.

Click on the menu showing Body 2, and select Body.

Repeat for the other 'header' and 'title' styles set to use Body 2 for the Following Paragraph Style.

Unfortunately, this appears to be a non-transferable setting. When I made the Style change on the document created with the available template (Report), then, with no further changes, saved the document as a template, the edited Template (Subtitle 1) did not appear in a document created from the new Template.

May have time to do some further research later today.

Regards,

Barry

Dave Razorsek,

At this time, you can add your own paragraph styles, rename existing styles, and delete styles that you no longer wish to keep. Any changes you make to styles affect the current document only, not all documents you create using Pages.

Click here for more details: Create, rename, or delete a paragraph style in Pages on Mac

If you would like to provide feedback, please click the link in our previous message.

Be safe and well!

Dave Razorsek,

If you change the appearance of text that has a paragraph style applied to it, an asterisk, and in some cases an Update button, appears next to the style’s name in the Paragraph Styles pop-up menu, indicating that the style has an override for that specific text. You can leave the override as is or update the paragraph style to incorporate the change.

Click here for more details: Intro to paragraph styles in Pages on Mac

If you need any further assistance, we suggest reaching out to Apple directly using this link: Get Support

Best regards.

Dave Razorsek,

At this time, we want to make sure you reach the right team for help with Pages. We recommend that you contact Apple Support directly. Depending on your region, you may be able to contact them here: Get Support

Have a wonderful day!

Hello Dave Razorsek,

Being able to change the text in Pages is important and you've come to a great place for help. You aren't able to change what default text size and fonts appear when first opening pages and creating a new document. After creating a new document, you can customize the font size and text to the desired settings as outlined in the following article.

Change the look of text in Pages on iPad - Apple Support

Apple does appreciate all feedback regarding their products, services, and features. If you would like to provide feedback about Pages on iPad you can do so via the Product Feedback website.

Take care!

Dave Razorsek

Thank you for keeping us posted.

We recommend that you check if the issue persists while on safe mode. Below is an article to help guide you through the process.

How to use safe mode on your Mac

Also, we recommend that you check if the issue persists when signed in on a different user account. The article below can help if you do not have any other user account to test with.

Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac

Take care!

Hi Dave,

A search for 'edit title style' in the Pages for iPad manual brought this result:

https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_book_topic&locale=en_CA&currentPage=1&bookid=3c89a91a31833799f6d9f83a6000fba1&src=support_book_topic&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-ca%2Fguide%2Fpages-ipad%2Ftana9e5281c1%2F12.0%2Fipados%2F1.0&title=Pages+User+Guide+for+iPad&query=+edit+title+style

No mention of "Title Style" but a couple of hits on editing Paragraph styles, which might prove useful.

Ive also requested this discussion be tansfered to the iWork for ipadOS community, where you'll get responders with more experience with later iPads than mine.

Regards,

Barry