Cannot Scroll Down Paragraph Styles

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Cannot Scroll Down Paragraph Styles

I'm using Pages 5.2.2 and want to assign a paragraph style to selected words (so they will show up in the table of contents).

When I highlight the words to be assigned the specific style and click on the document's paragraph styles drop-down menu, the style I am looking for (I've named it "Sub-Title General") is not shown in the alpha-sorted drop-down so I need to scroll down the list of styles. When I start to scroll, the drop-down closes. I can never scroll to the style I want to select.

Have you experienced this? Know how I can fix this issue?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 8 GB

Posted on Sep 5, 2014 6:04 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 22, 2016 2:12 PM in response to Kyle Swisher

This is not a 100% match on my issue, but it is close...

I am trying to abandon MS Word and move my documents to Pages. However, the odd behavior of the Style Menu pulldown, is keeping me from using styles within Pages (pretty important feature of a good document editor).

Some styles within the style list (on the formatting palette) appear to be collapsing on themselves. As you can see in my screen snippit below, "Gantt Header" is a style I created, so it is not specifically related to user generated styles -- Although, the dummy style I created was one of the styles being collapsed. Additionally, the Styles pull down list seems to only accommodate a small number of styles, which is workable (barely), but removing unused styles does not fix the behavior.

This is on a 32 inch monitor. Moving the window a smaller display does not appear to make any difference in the behavior and neither does restarting the application.

Apple, please advise?

Thanks

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Answer 2

Sep 22, 2016 2:47 PM in response to wichdaddy

I may have figured out some part of the issue.

As I traced back my steps, I noticed that I had used 'soft' returns in the text I was styling. The reason, was that a 'hard' return in the table I was working within was causing a double quote to appear (going to blame that on the font for now -- very weird) at the CR. I used a soft return to get around this extra double quote.

On updating the style, all the text between the first line and the next hard CR, should have been styled the same (despite what I was asking it to do). Essentially, I was asking Pages to use a Paragraph style AND a character style at the same time. I should have known better.

That being said, Apple, it is possible that you have a bug in how you are storing paragraph styles when a soft return is combined with differing styles within the same paragraph.

Started with this:

{CR}<style name=foo>

Foo {soft return}

Bar</style> {CR}

When I tried this, the error appears:

{CR}<style name=foo>

Foo {soft return}

I was selecting Bar and creating a new style but the text Bar was really a part of 'foo'

I believe the standard behavior would have overrode my character styles (which I had not defined) when I tried to re-define bar the paragraph style.

This is an edge case for sure. Clear as mud?

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