Pages 5.5 Tables Bug?
So I updated to Yosemite and upgraded iWork to the latest versions, which included Pages 5.5. Upon opening several different documents which I had saved in the previous version of Pages (5.2.2), I found that the tables in these documents were not displaying in the same way as they used to. The problem seemed to be that Pages 5.5 refuses to make a table that has too many rows for one page flow onto the next page. It simply moves the entire table to the next page.
I did a few tests with a new document created in Pages 5.5 with the following results:
1st Test: Created a new document, adding text to cover half of the first page, then inserted a table underneath. Increasing the number of rows to the point where the table no longer fits on page one causes the entire table to move to page 2.
2nd Test: With the same document as above, I increased the number of rows of the table until it could no longer fit on an entire page. Pages correctly flowed the table from page two to page three.
3rd Test: With the same document as above, I deleted the text and whitespace on page one. This forced the table back to page one, and Pages successfully flowed it to page two. But now, adding any text above the table on page one causes a bizarre result: the table moves down and the rows which flowed onto page two display correctly, but the first part of the table is entirely invisible. It isn't just a drawing problem, since zooming in and out does not help. See screenshot below (notice the row numbers are in the 30s, proving that this is the second part of the table).
4th Test: I saved the document to iCloud Drive and then reopened it. This results in absolutely nothing of the table being displayed, not even the second half. I have not figured out any way to make the table display itself. Opening this document on an iPad, Pages shows me the text on the first page, with the table flowing from page two to page three.
Anyone else noticing similar difficulties? I have documents that I had created in native Pages 5.2.2 format that were able to flow a table from one page to the next, so this looks a lot like a bug introduced by the 5.5 update.
Sincerely,
Alexander Dominic
