Where did Pages 5.2 put my auto-correct?!

It is in the System preferences now. Language and text (something like that, I am on Snow Leopard right now)

System Preferences > Keyboard > Text.

Any idea on how to get the Pages 5.2 to autocorrect date formatting? For example, in the Pages 09, I could type 27th August 2014 and it would autocorrect it to 27th August 2014. I cannot see how the Systems Prefs>Keyboard>Text accommodates this.

DrAndrewC wrote:

I cannot see how the Systems Prefs>Keyboard>Text accommodates this.

It can't do that anymore. You have to go back to using Pages 09.

You could add the ordinal superscript from Special Characters, if you can find it, but you would need to isolate the 'th' with a space both before and after, the Automatic substitution lacks the smarts to differentiate between with and 27th

Peter

This is very helpful -- thanks. But all I want to do is have Pages autocorrect from lower case "i" to upper case "I", and when I enter "i" it tells me that a valid original text must include at least two characters, and can't include a space. Has anyone found a way around this? (This is a minor annoyance, I know, but I've been trained by previous versions of Pages to just leave my "i"s uncapitalised and move on!)

Try two "i"s to be corrected to one "I".

Then use previous versions of Pages.

Peter

Auto correct has a bug. There's no way to add single letter words. This has gone on WAY too long. I've posted in their online Feedback at least 10 times. They need to fix this. I've just spent $40 for TextExpander simply to allow me to have single letter words capitalized. There's no excuse for this. Several advisers have told me this is a problem that should be fixed. But one guy—a senior adviser no less—actually said, "...at the risk of sounding glib, why don't you just use the shift key?" Really?!

Not that I think Apple's excuse is valid, but is it so hard? You didn't get any auto correcting here and seem to have managed.

If you really want initial capitalisation then use Pages '09.

Peter