Place cursor where I want

Within a Pages text object, you cannot place the cursor beyond the end of the existing text. If you want the cursor further down the page, you have to decide what you want between that point and the end of the text, and insert it (i.e. space before paragraph, Layout break with space before, etc.). Pages doesn't presume to guess for you, which I gather Word does.

Vitor,

Have you ever looked at one of your Word documents where you used the double-click action to position the cursor, with Show Invisibles on, to see what happened to get the insertion cursor to that arbitrary position in the document? Are there a lot of Paragraph Marks, maybe some Tab characters?

Jerry

Is that Microsoft Word for Windows because that is not how Word for Mac does it.

Word for Mac behaves very much the way Pages does, right down to needing textboxes inserted in Publishing Layout view.

Peter

Sorry, I missed the double click bit.

Yuck! It sticks dozens of returns and tabs in the document, as if Word users don't make a big enough mess on their own!

Word used to be a lovely Word Processor. It all went off the rails after v6 IMHO.

Peter

What Jeff said, plus:

If you want the text to start at a specific location, you can insert a Text box, place it at that location, and place the text in the box.

Regards,

Barry