I can no longer tab between cells in a table with pages 5.0.

Althoug this is annoying at a first glance this behaviour makes sense.

Instead of Numbers where you tab through the table you can add now tab stops to a table cell. For advanced formatting in a larger table cell this is perfect.

You can find an almost complete list of the shortcuts in pages in the Pages help

Its the last chapter.

Regards,

A. Wolff

Is there any way to switch this back to the way it worked pre-Pages 5.0? I'm so used to tabbing between cells. I'd rather not have to re-train myself.

Thanks.

You should still have Pages 09 in the Applications > iWork 09 folder. The new PAges 5 has lost over 90 features that Pages 09 has.

option tab

Peter

Option + tab works, but is there anyway to allocate a single keyboard stroke to this? I find this, as well as the 2 x right arrow a bit of a pain.

Option-tab makes sense and can be done with the left hand's thumb/forefinger.

Using tab was always arse-backwards as it defeated the use of tab within the table cell.

Best to use both for what they always do:

Option tab or an arrow key (singular) to jump cells

tab to jump to the next tab in the text wherever it is within or without cells.

The contrary precedence was set by Microsoft and was a bad idea. In good UI you do not have shortucts reverse roles such that you need to pay excessive attention to the context.

Peter

Changing Numbers like this was absolutely rediculous. If they wanted to add the within the cell function, why not make that the Option/Tab function and leave the old standard alone. It is very cumbersome to hold the option key down. Anyone who is trying to move from Excel will find this so counter-intuitive. APPLE - PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK!

No. To have an opposite result for the same method, dependent on context, is counter-intuitive.

In this case I am 100% with Apple. They just should never have copied Microsoft in the first place.

Peter

It is competely wrong. For years and hundreds of applications, TAB is always ALWAYS moves to next cell. Tell the guys at Lotus123 it was not intuitive, I agree, but now everything EVERYthing uses TAB for cell move.

Use Opt+Tab if you want a new feature.

This type of changing and counter to other work is so Not-Apple. What's happened to my great company?

Option-tab DOES NOT WORK when you are skimming through cells. It only works once you are editing a cell.

If you are just skiming through cells, THEN you revert to just using Tab.

Changing basic functionality is a pain in the butt, but it's something users can adapt to. Changing basic functionality sometimes, but not others, in a haphazard fashion, is just stupid.

I wonder if the programmers who rebuilt Pages ever actually use it...

Fix this guys, it's a bug not a feature...

In Numbers you can still use TAB to move to the next cell, whether you are entering text or not. Only Pages requires Option-TAB.

This is not consistent in my opinion, or am I missing something?

Now that is weird!

Peter