Issue switching to a pages window: cursor moves to where I click.

I think you are seeing normal behavior. There are other ways to shift the focus back to Pages that don't affect the text insertion cursor position.

Command-Tab

Click the Pages icon in the Dock

Click the Pages window adjacent to the document name, at the top

Command-Spacebar, type Pages and hit Return

Jerry

Type F9 then choose the window you want.

Walt

CanuckBacon wrote:

Hi Jerry,

thanks for the advice, but i'm using a dual monitor setup, and those are pretty cumbersome solutions, and I often have 4 or 5 pages documents open at once, so just switching to pages doesn't really solve the problem. I just need to switch back and forth between two windows without the cursor moving, like it does in every other program I own except for iWork. For example, typing this reply, I can click on another safari window, and when I click back on this text box, it doesn't move the cursor at all, so I can just click this window, and type away from where I left off.

Canuck,

In your original question you only mentioned switching apps, so I didn't mention switching windows within an app. In addiiton to the method Walt gave you, you can cycle through the open windows of a single app by using Command-Tilde (the key just above the tab key).

Jerry

As a long time user of Quark Xpress which had this co-operative behavior, amongst many others, I too find most of Apple's current attempts at programming very user unfriendly. But then that is what it is.

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Peter

The point was that Quark remembers the position of the cursor down to the smallest text box, even after saving and reopening.

OSX does let you click on another window not in focus, but if you click into the other window it will move the focus to that window which is as it should be.

I'm not sure what exactly is your problem though as I have just done tests and merely clicking from one window to another either both in Pages or in separate programs does not lose your cursor position.

Obviously if you click into the text of the first window it will go where you have clicked, but if you click on the window edges the cursor stays put where you left it.

Peter

When you have several documents (windows) open you can also move between them by going to the Window menu. Here I have three open documents, see image.