Fix all instances of a particular style's asterisked overrides in a document at once.

Fixing ALL instances of a Style's overrides at once. Not a question but a fix for this problem.


Since you can't do global searches by styles anymore in Pages, here is my fix for when you have a style override asterisk on a section of text and want to clear them, resetting to the formatting of the original style.


I fixed this issue by

  1. Clicking in the asterisked text, then using the UPDATE button in the styles. Yes, this changes all instances to the new, incorrect formatting.
  2. Then I correctly formatted the text and clicked the UPDATE button again and it fixed all of them to the new formatting (in my case it was left justified tilde characters (~~~) that were supposed to be centered).


I didn't see any questions with answers like this so I thought I'd post this.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.7

Posted on Sep 23, 2026 7:47 PM

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Fix all instances of a particular style's asterisked overrides in a document at once.

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