Note: You can’t apply a paragraph style or character style to text in a table cell.“

The subject is a quote from Apples help pages.

I am using Pages on iPadOS.

Highlighting text in a table cell and opening Paintbrush, Cell does not display Paragraph Style and only None as Character Style. This is confirmed by the Apple Support quote.

But why? I can change the format to what I want but why can’t I use a defined character style?

Sorry about the lack of platform information.

It was just a frustrated silent scream as I am trying to move from MSOffice dependence to Apple. There’s a lot about Pages that I like, although there’s quite a bit of functionality missing from MS Word, most of which I can live with, and a quite different way of working with the app.

I have a character style, Keyword, which is used to highlight to the reader that the word will be defined in the Glossary. So in the narrative this is easy to use (although it did take me a while to find out how to define Character Styles). In a table, I would have to change the style manually for each keyword. If I don’t like the look of the results, easy to change it throughout all of the text…except where it might be used in tables. The document I am working on currently is nearing 100 pages with lots of tables. So, important to get the look right before changing the table styles, I suppose.

Word has find and replace for format as well, which would help.

I was just wondering if anyone had ideas how to workaround this missing feature.

Thanks for your time, by the way.