Is it no longer possible to make background objects selectable?

Mr. Bacon,

Try this:

Click from the menu bar Arrange > Section Masters > Make Master Objects Selectable

I hope it works for you.

If this or any other missing or obscured features make you regret "upgrading," Pages 4.3 is still located in an iWork Folder within your Applications Folder.

You can't make new bookmarks and links. They have been removed from Pages 5.

Trash Pages 5 and go back to Pages 4.3 which should still be in your Document > iWork folder.

Peter

Yeah. The Cloud is useful, to be sure, but my data is MINE. I will take care of it, thank you very much. I wish they would give up trying to stop me.

iCloud by its very nature does not let you easily check that it is actually working and when it fails, as it inevitably will, the first you will know of it, is after it is too late.

Peter

Yes we are having the same issue why would they take out features in an update?

This has become a serious issue for us we may no longer be able to use pages or numbers.

This is the same thing they did with finalcut and imovie....

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=432&mforum=iworktips ntrick

Then rate and review Pages 5 in the App Store.

Peter

Looks like you are not alone in this. I have had the same frustrations trying to update the layout of our newsletter. The only way around this for me was to group everything in front of the object I wanted to get hold of and then send that group "to back". Then I have access to the object I need to modify. Once done, send that object to the back which in turn puts the group at the front. Ungroup and things are back to normal.

But what a pain and waste of time!!

As far as I am aware, if you try to modify files by using the earlier version of Pages a) the software may reject any files you already opened in Pages 5 and b) files created in an earlier version of Pages won't work on your iPad unless they convert to the latest version, which in turn means you won't be able to use them in the older version on your mac. Oh joy!!

It much more than disappointing not being able to select background objects.....

I have to say it ****** me off when you get use to a great program and some super geek stuffs it up by playing with it... What wise arse thought it needed changing, who are you trying to impress?

TAKE NOTE: Apple Super Geek **** off and go play with yourself and leave a good thing along other wise your no different then Microsoft...

PS tried the whole master thing, didn't work.................................

I guess I will have to find a thrid party company to help as Apple support never gets back to any of these discssions either....

Hi, Mr. Bacon! I had a Pages file, with tables and images. I could not modify them. ARGH! But there is a 5-10sec solution.

Here it goes.

Select the entire document (Cmd+A)

Copy it to the clipboard (Cmd+C)

Open a new, blank document (Cmd+N)

Paste in what you have copied (Cmd+V)

SMILE! :-)

You MAY have to click on Arrange > Section Masters > Make Master Objects Selectable, but I did not have to do that.

Let me know, if it helped.

Cheers!