Can't link text boxes anymore

I just discovered this, too. The lack of page layout templates and functions? I share your rage about deleting what is for me an essential part of my business needs. What are they thinking? It's like no more SAVE AS a few MacOS's back. Who are those guys?

I restored from the Applications folder, too. Applications>iWork>Pages (09) is still there. I'm so happy – thanks for posting it.

I agree that linking text boxes is necessary. I am going back to the old Pages because I can't produce a newsletter wtih the current version.

A little different than linking text boxes but Pages - Preferences - Ruler - Alignment Guides allows a workaround for me in the time being.

Hope it helps.

This is driving me nutz... I'm attempting to do exactly what you suggestted and it works for maybe four or five text box copy and past, but then suddenly the new document start going berzerk, move the mouse and the pages start scrolling at light speed to arbitrary pages and nothing you can do can get the program under control. I then save and quit. I reopen and it is stable for maybe three of rour more copy/past (and it does, in fact, work like a word processor with all the pages connected like a normal document), and then it goes berserk again! Mouse movements create wild scrolls up and down, or click on a page and it goes to pages anywhere in the document, but not where you want it to go.

In short, I''m able to copy past maybe 3 to 5 text boxes in 09 and past to 5 (which itself is taking forever) and then the new project goes crazy, requiring a shutdown. I have no idea how stable this new project will be once I get all 170 pages copied over.

Anyone else doing this and have the same issues? I'm operation OS X 10.9 on a Mac Mini.

Apple you have created dispare. Linking text boxes is essential to writing. My newsletter deadline is approaching and I can't find a way back to Pages 09 and the thought of having to use the old Windows Publisher is anathema, but I have no choice. The newsletter has to get to the printers. Fix it pronto please. Urgently !!!!!

My advice: ditch ver. 5. It's clearly not ready for prime time.

BTW, ver 4.3 should still be on your system. Export the files you aLready opened w version 5 to 09 format (files/export) then delete ver five from your system. Version 4.3 should still be in iwork 09 folder in applications. You might need to turn off auto update to be sure the App Store doesn't silently overwrite with the new, crippled release.

Thank you for this post. You made me yell out load in ecstacy....okay not really ecstacy but I did yell out. Thank you

I use this everyday. I sent a complaint through pages, for what its worth.

This is beyond frustrating. I'm frustrated with a lot of things with this latest upgrade, but this is one of the biggies with Pages. This makes no sense to me. Do they want us to "go back" to Word and Publisher. Both of those are much more user friendly at this point. Pages was just starting to make sense to me and I was actually beginning to like it. This omission has completely changed the time it takes for me to do my newsletter among other things. Thanks for nothing Apple.

I am right there with you. Can't believe they omitted this. I am sure they will correct this.

Glad you mentioned this...I almost deleted my previous version of pages.

I want to add my voice, too, to the plea PLEASE BRING BACK LINKING TEXT BOXES ACROSS PAGES. Without this feature Pages is almost useless for me.

I've spent a lot of time this morning trying to make Pages 5.0 work for me. There is much to like. So if the linked text boxes feature plus the ability to add alignment guides were brought back, I would be happy.

Otherwise, I will sadly have to go elsewhere.

Of course, there is always the possibility that our desires are already in the pipeline. But please tell us what's coming and when.

You can always revert to your previous version of Pages 4.x, which is what I am doing until this is resolved.

It's true, text box linking is gone. I have found, however, that you can create a text box and in the Layout tab in the inspector on the right, you can choose how many columns you would like the text box to have. Fortunately, even though the formarly linked text boxes cannot link anymore, the text still appears properly in previously created documents.