Pages 5 features checklist

Lots of missing items. Clicking to the Services' contextual menu is a minor change but a very usefull feature which I was looking for.

For the benefit of those newly reading this thread and the journalists visiting this thread, here is an updated list of the features we know have been removed from Pages 5:

Removed Features:

1. Selecting non-contiguous text

2. Outline view

3. Customizable Toolbar

4. 135 templates

5. Capture pages/sections

6. Drag to reorganize pages

7. Duplicate pages

8. Delete page

9. Manage Pages

10. Subscript/superscript buttons

11. Select all instances of a Style

12. Retain zoom level of document

13. Facing pages

14. Layout Margins

15. Media Inspector links to iPhoto library on external drive

16. Media Inspector links to Aperture Library

17. Styles Drawer

18. Merge Fields

19. Drag and Drop VCards

20. Default Start Up page

21. Vertical Ruler

22. Drag-out Vertical (and Horizontal) Alignment Guides

23. Style Function key shortcuts

24. Bookmarks

25. Hyperlinks to external documents

26. Images within Tables

27. Mathtype Equations/Formulae within Tables (and other Objects?)

28. Grapher Equations/Formulae within Tables (and other Objects?)

29. Import Styles

30. Clean Import of older .pages formatting

31. Full User Guide (there is a short online guide missing many features)

32. Search Sidebar

33. Open Type features

34. Textbox linking

35. Background Object selectable

36. Storyboards

37. Text to Tables

38. Tables to Text

39. Tables in Headers/Footers

40. Export to .rtf

41. Import from .rtf

42. Multiple Comments view

43. T.O.C. clean numbering

44. Selective formating in Character Styles

45. Insert File Name

46. Search in Media Browser

47. Bullet points in comments

48. Search comments

49. Two up view

50. "Past and keep" style

51. Custom Auto-correct

52. Find & Replace special characters, (e.g. paragraph returns)

53. Auto-Dates on opening document

54. Speech to Text

55. Format Bar

56. Open Pages '08 documents

57. Headers in Tables

58. Sync with iOS6

59. Auto capitalise sentence start

60. Open .doc files

61. Roman Numeral Page Numbers

62. Character count including spaces

63. Import linked Numbers Charts

64. Styles, including bulletted lists

65. Recent fonts at top of Font List

66. Page of Page Count at foot of Window

67. Full Screen background color

68. Font name matching between OSX and iOS

69. Copy/Paste from Pages '09 to Pages 5

70. Certain Fonts ( e.g. WingDings)

71. Saving onto Windows server

72. Status bar

73. Drag out inserted image to Finder.

74. Uninstall permanently

75. Rotate Tables

76. Rotate Charts

77. Display non-printable margins

78. Group pie wedges in Charts

79. OSX Spotlight Metadata

80. Custom number formats in charts

81. Table fills

82. Copy Paste of citation text and footnotes

83. Change tracking for non-body text

84. Open Recent from Template Chooser

85. Opentype features

86. Copy/Paste Thumbnails across documents

87. Insert Filename

Altered Features:

↪ Pages '09 files saved from Pages 5 in Maverick are not protected by a simple name change eg (converted appended)

↪ Pages '09 files previewed on iPad via iCloud are irrevocably converted

↪ Update is missing for older installations, Apple is reportedly working on a solution via a redeemable code or update on their Support Download site

↪ Wrap methods have been cut back severely

↪ Documents reconverted back to Pages '09 lose all template information

↪ Language set under Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar now document wide

↪ Subscript/superscript text is now a convoluted route Gear > Advanced options > Baseline > Subscript/Superscript

↪ Headers and Footers appear to be multi-column

↪ Text is not wrapping in Footers

↪ New file format (but still .pages?) not backwardly compatible

↪ Page numbering method changed

↪ Custom Templates are now stored in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.pages (a package)

↪ AppleScript Library for Pages 5 has changed with many classes and commands removed which indicates how the feature lists have been slashed

↪ Character Styles are in the Text Inspector under Bold, Italic etc

↪ Tabbing within Table cells appears to be inconsistent, tabbing internally with numbers.

↪ Drag and Drop text only works with .txt files now

↪ EndNote plugin is partially broken unable to cite in footnotes and problems with in-text numbering

↪ List options are now in a pop-down menu in the contextual Inspector

↪ .doc no longer supported, only .docx

↪ Text highlighting is now under Format > gear icon > Advanced Options > Character Fill Color > Color

↪ Mail Merge has changed. Some people are reporting links not working despite Merge is still in the Insert Menu

↪ Merging Table cells is now: select the cell/s > Format > Table > Merge

↪ Unmerge cells only undoes the above

↪ Table Borders is now: select the cell/s > Format > Table > Cell > click on triangle > choose

↪ Quicklook preview of Pages '09 files in Maverick is reportedly buggy

↪ Layout Breaks work differently. You select the paragraphs you want as an exception and then change the column numbers. Currently can't find how to set before and after spacing or margin inset btw This is a totally undocumented and hidden procedure.

↪ Word Count is now Menu > View > Show Word Count

↪ Bookmarks are missing in Pages 5 but are still retained if exported back to Pages '09

↪ Bolding requires clicking on style and checking Emphasis

↪ Save as… is back

Peter,

You should check this thread. As most of us have Pages '09 we've neglected issues with Pages '08. They are in for a different world of hurt in that there is no migration path into Pages 5. They simply get a 'document too old' warning with a suggestion to migrate through Pages '09, which of course many don't have.

How to open my Pages 3.0 documents on Pages 5

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5469622?answerId=23490893022#23490893022

Thnak you! Do you know if it works to alias it?

Missing Custom Document / Page Sizes. 😟

Anyone know if/how Pages 09 (4.3) can be loaded into a new Mavericks machine?

And this is what Apple does to its software approximately every single time. Looked at one way, I think the whole property is much more valuable with the same code base, and feature parity for every platform. Do that, Microsoft. I imagine the feature set will improve. I think we should be militant about what we want back. Start buying competitors' stuff. However, one of the greatest things about Apple is that they WILL destroy software and build it back again. 64-bit codebase, the same feature set in the browser, including Windows browsers, including Chrome, and on the iDevices. They should tell you ahead of time that they're destroying what they built, with the story of where they're headed. Then you could run the BETA or NewPages or whatever, save to the new format from the old. The new file format is xmls with little compiled bits of text. Small bits, see? Loads quick on a 3GS and the MacPro.

It should not have needed a warning, though. Let the new develop in the shell of the Old, Apple!

Of course it can, it's probably on an iWork '09 folder on your machine already - see here:

http://sonofgeektalk.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/un-*******-apples-*****/

Another feature that I miss and I haven't found in the list (sorry, I didn't go through all 60 pages of posts) is the images on headers and footers.

They are removed. If your company had its logo there, it just disappears...

Great job, Peter, looking forward to the final list which I will link also from the Facebook Page

Indeed so - one of the very first thing everybody notices because we all had our letterhead savaged by Pages 5.

Well, not everybody, somebody DID NOT WANT letterhead in the first place

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Thank you, Peter!

Thanks al lot, Peter! I hope this helps in bringin back the "lost features".

Very helpful pages

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/