How to Find and Replace with Line Breaks and Other Formatting Characters in iWork Pages 5.2

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How to Find and Replace with Line Breaks and Other Formatting Characters in iWork Pages 5.2

Pages '11 used to have a great advanced Find & Replace feature that let you insert special formatting characters like paragraph & line breaks.

I would frequently use it to format data - for example replacing every instance of a "|" character with a line break.

I don't see any equivalent in Pages 5.2's Find & Replace menu.

Is there another way to access these characters?

I even tried a workaround by opening Pages '11, inserting the character I need to and then pasting it into the "Replace" box of Pages 5.2's Find & Replace dialogue, but that doesn't seem to work.

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 14, 2014 12:56 PM

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Answer 1

May 14, 2014 2:05 PM in response to AtOurGates

Just use Pages '09, even though you don't seem to know what it is called.

It should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.

Peter

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Answer 2

May 15, 2014 7:58 PM in response to AtOurGates

I agree - this was (in Pages 4.3) an excellent feature - much easier & reliable than bigger cousin. My installation of 5.2 somehow removed _all_ older versions, so I'm stuck. And not a happy camper.

So how to do this in Pages 5.2?

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Answer 3

May 15, 2014 8:06 PM in response to Jay Warner1

Jay

Have you looked in your Applications/iWork folder?

It would not have been removed without you doing something other than a straight upgrade.

btw Pages 5.2 is not the bigger cousin, by a long shot. There is nothing bigger about it except the way it eats up screen real estate.

Peter

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Answer 4

May 15, 2014 8:37 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

"bigger cousin" is a word processing pkg that comes from Seattle. And I agree, Pages 5.2 is a trimmed down word manipulator, a shadow of its former self.

I keep all .dmg app installation files in my Documents, and somehow my copy of Pages.dmg (4.2) was not there. Thanks to you, I discovered that Pages.app (5.2) is carried by itself, not in iWork folder. So I still have the older version available. I hope.

My intent at this point is to remove all vestiges of Pages (5.2) from my machine & history. It is missing too much for me to use. If this doesn't work, I shall have to stop using Pages altogether. Not a positive step forward, but 5.2 simply won't do what I need to have done.

I'll ask Apple to let me know if they ever restore Pages.

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Answer 5

May 16, 2014 12:11 AM in response to Jay Warner1

We are as one on this. 😉

Make sure you rate/review Pages 5.2 in the App Store.

Peter

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Answer 6

megamom

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Jun 21, 2014 1:03 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thank you!

I can't tell you how long I have been searching to be able add a simple return with "find and replace".

It was so easy once I read your information.

Thank you so much.

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Answer 7

Lobmar

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Sep 25, 2016 11:22 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

It is not in the applications/iwork, I don't even have that folder. Is it possible to download it, it will save me a lot of work. Otherwise there is other program that will do that job?

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Answer 8

Sep 25, 2016 11:56 PM in response to Lobmar

If you never had iWork '09, you will need to buy the boxed set (very cheaply) from Amazon.

Just make sure to upgrade it to v4.3 after installation.

Peter

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