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Whenever I try and copy and paste something from a Keynote slideshow to a Pages document, it doesn't work!
Text from Pages copies and pastes onto Keynote, but not vice versa.
I used to be able to do this but it has recently stopped working.
How can I solve this?
MacBook Pro, iOS 9.1
I was able to recreate your issue on one of my other laptops. As I was looking into the cause, I noted that the most recent version of Pages (5.6) had failed to download, so I was using a current copy of Keynote and an old copy of Pages (even though both are set to auto download and install). I manually downloaded the latest Pages from the Purchased list in the App Store, and paste into Pages started working again.
I've got another system I'm reloading to see if I can recreate the issue between Pages 5.6 and Keynote 6.6.
I was able to recreate your issue on one of my other laptops. As I was looking into the cause, I noted that the most recent version of Pages (5.6) had failed to download, so I was using a current copy of Keynote and an old copy of Pages (even though both are set to auto download and install). I manually downloaded the latest Pages from the Purchased list in the App Store, and paste into Pages started working again.
I've got another system I'm reloading to see if I can recreate the issue between Pages 5.6 and Keynote 6.6.
Pasting from Keynote into the latest version of Pages is faulty.
Pasting text from Keynote into any other application that handles text does work.
A workaround until this is fixed is:
1 - copy the text in Keynote and paste into Text Edit, other text application,s will work also
then copy the text in Text Edit and paste into Pages
2 - use another text based application
Can you provide step by step what you're doing? Copy/Paste is working fine for me, so not sure where the problem may be. Here's my more detailed steps for example:
1. In Keynote choose File -> New
2. Make sure "Standard" is selected at the top, and double click the "White" theme.
3. The presentation should open up with a title/subtitle slide. Do the following
a. For the title, change it to "Title of Test"
b. For the subtitle, change it to "The Copy/Paste Caper"
4. Next, in the title bar, click the "Text" icon to make "Text" appear in the middle of the slide. Don't move it, but replace it's default "Text" with "extra text"
5. Now, open Pages and create a new document using the "Blank" template. Should look a little like this now.
5. Now, drag to select the three text boxes in the Keynote document, do a Command-C for copy, then make the Pages document active by clicking in it and doing a Command-V. I get this result.
Do you get something like that or something different?
Thanks, this solved my problem ( it was quite frustrating )
Copy/Paste is working fine for me, so not sure where the problem may be.
This is a well known issue with the last few versions of Keynote and the latest version of Pages running in Yosemite or El Capitan. It may be working for you but many users have this problem, as do I.
copying text from Keynote into pages does not work
copying text from Keynote into any other application does work
copying text from any other application except Keynote into pages does work
This problem with Pages was fixed in November 2015 with the 5.6.1 update. There have been two further updates with additional bug fixes.
Keynote doesn't copy and paste to Pages?
