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PAGES Shift+Return Keystroke for soft return no longer working

With the newest update to Pages, the Shift+Return shortcut to inserting a soft return is no longer working. I've used PAGES since the beginning, it appears to be a software bug. Any help???

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.6

Posted on Sep 23, 2023 8:11 AM

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Posted on Nov 8, 2023 10:24 AM

It seems Control+Return is now being used by Pages as the new key combination for Insert Line Break / Soft Return. What we want is for it to move back to Shift+Return. And sadly the Keyboard Shortcuts settings will not accept Shift+Return for Insert Line Break.

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Feb 28, 2024 4:25 AM in response to im4GMG

I agree. Everyone who's posted here should submit the bug report using this link: Feedback - Pages - Apple. It's the only way they're really going to do anything about it—unless they happen to have a regression test that somehow surfaces between now and the next release.


If they did have said test, there's a good chance they wouldn't have made this change.


I find this particular feature really annoying because some apps do SHIFT+ENTER, some do CTRL+ENTER and some do both. It's even worse because the current Mac version of Excel requires OPTION+ENTER to get soft returns in a cell!


But the principle here is that you've trained your users for decades how to do this—and then you change it. There's no reason they couldn't have just added an additional shortcut, because I've never heard of SHIFT+ENTER having any other function than this.


SUBMIT YOUR FEEDBACK!


It's the only way to effectively b*tch about stuff like this. Comments here aren't really going to do much.


PAGES Shift+Return Keystroke for soft return no longer working

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