Douglas Broyles
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Q: Pages 5 Where is Advanced Find

I got the new Pages 5 yesterday and for the life of me I cannot figure out the Advanced Find & Replace for invisible characters. My heart sank when I ran into this blank wall.

 

I was able to breathe again when I found I still had an old copy of Pages 4 so I could continue to work. I'm constantly reformatting doccuments, cleaning them up, removing extra spaces, tabs, carriage returns and and it was quite easy in the old Pages

 

Am I missing something, or is it just plain missing?

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 10:24 AM

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  • by PeterBreis0807,

    PeterBreis0807 PeterBreis0807 Nov 14, 2014 5:00 AM in response to mad.maks
    Level 8 (35,825 points)
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    Nov 14, 2014 5:00 AM in response to mad.maks

    Ah well.

     

    One down, 100 + to go.

     

    Peter

  • by Coco_pdx,

    Coco_pdx Coco_pdx Oct 19, 2015 5:58 PM in response to floobyduster
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    Oct 19, 2015 5:58 PM in response to floobyduster

    Thanks so much for this! I'm just using Pages for the first time and love most things about it, but this is ridiculous. Amazing, too, that after a couple of years they still haven't done anything.

  • by snowball's chance,

    snowball's chance snowball's chance Jul 23, 2016 12:36 PM in response to Douglas Broyles
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Jul 23, 2016 12:36 PM in response to Douglas Broyles

    It's still missing, and none of the suggestions in this thread are helpful.  There is no advanced find an replace.  Switch to microsoft word.  That's the solution. 

     

    This is just another dumbing down by apple.  The technology hasn't gotten better in three years, and the software has gotten worse.  If you aren't at the very bottom of the consumer market, Apple is not for you.  Ween yourself from Apple, and start here.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Jul 23, 2016 2:13 PM in response to snowball's chance
    Level 7 (21,500 points)
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    Jul 23, 2016 2:13 PM in response to snowball's chance

    It took Microsoft 33 years to get Word where it is today. LibreOffice Writer got started in Germany in 1992 as part of StarOffice. Good word processing applications take time to evolve.

     

    Pages v5 was a new application in Fall 2013, and regardless of the observed Apple commitment history, it was never intended to be a Word clone, or even a business-grade word processor. Too much time and resource cost to do that well, particularly within its 3 years of existence.

     

    Pages v5 is suitable for anyone, regardless of their strata in the consumer market, provided that they don't require advanced features. Then, the choices are Pages '09 v4.3, MS Word, or a litany of 3rd party word processing solutions that fit the users need — without abandoning the Apple hardware platform.

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