Selecting multiple words using command button in word

Hi Jo,

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Regards from a non-expert in Word,

Ian.

I have the same problem. Ih has occurred since last week. It concerns Pages and Microsoft Word as well. However there is not problem for example in Numbers or Microsoft Excel.

Can anyone help to solve this?

Please provide the exact versions of Pages, and OS X/mac OS that you are using. Helps avoid the guessing arcade. Explain your problem and solution goals. Using the term “same problem,” does not help us, and may not really be the same problem afterall.

The last Pages application that allowed one to select multiple, non-adjacent words and lines of text was Pages '09 v4.3. This capability is not in any release of Pages v5, or v6.

Pages is no Word clone, and Word questions should be addressed to the preceding link provided by Yellowbox.

What is "the exact same problem"?

If it is the same as implied in the original post, it is an issue involving Microsoft Word, and the (Apple) Pages for Mac community is really not the best place to find a solution.

If your issue does NOT involve Word, then it is NOT the "exact same problem," and until you tell us what the actual problem is, what software (including version number), no one here will know what your problem is. If the problem isn't known, it's difficult to provide you with a solution.

Regards,

Barry

Thanks lot for Your response.

To be more specific I will give more information:

• Pages: v. 6.2 (4582)
• MacOS Sierra v. 10.12.6
• iMac (Retina 5k, 27-inch, late 2015)

The official manual of Pages says, that it is possible to select multiple object by clicking with pressing command or shift:

"Select or deselect another object" "Clicking with Command or Shift"

So the program (Pages) does not work as described in the official manual.

I do not know how to solve this problem - it should work correctly, due to description in manual. If it does not work, it means that there is a program incompatibility with the official description of its operation.

Finally, I will just add that the same symptoms of this problem (not the same problem) I noticed in Microsoft Word.

I am looking forward to same solutions, and thank you in advance for Your help.

Despite what you read from Pages Help, no release of Pages v5 or v6 supports the capability to select multiple, non-adjacent words, sentences, or paragraphs. This capability is found in Pages '09 v4.3 which was officially retired by Apple four years ago, and still continues to work on High Sierra.

I am restating what I posted on 2017-09-17 above.

I have the exact same problem! If you know the answer pls tell us something!

"something"

Peter

I wrote all information, that You asked for, and unfortunately still i do net get any ideas / solutions.

"The official manual of Pages says, that it is possible to select multiple object by clicking with pressing command or shift:"

The last "official manual" was the Pages '09 User Guide, and the instructions given were valid for the then current version, Pages 4.x.

Note the three instances of "on", all 'selected' in this Pages 4.3 document, using the modifier key, command, to make the second and third selections.

Pages 5 was a new application, not a newer version of Pages 4. It did not include more than 100 features (including selection of non-contiguous blocks of text) supported in Pages 4.3, the last version of Pages 4/Pages '09.

Some features have returned in later updates to version 5 and in version 6, but, as noted earlier by VikingOSX, selection of non-contiguous blocks of text is not one of them.

In this Pages 5 document, it was not possible to select the three instances of "on" without making a single selection that included all text between the first and last "on". Three objects (Shapes) could be selected click on the first, command click on each of the others. The behaviour is, I expect, the same in the current version, Pages 6.

Selection of non-contiguous text is also supported in LibreOffice write documentsin the version and OS X version Im using, and may be possible with more recent versions as well.

Three instance of "on" selected. (LibreOffice v5.1.4.2, OS X 10.11 El Capitan)

Actions: Use Provide Pages Feedback (in the Pages menu) to send a request that this feature be included in Pages, or to send a bug report, reporting this behaviour as a bug. or both.

While waiting for that to happen, live without the feature, or use LibreOffice Write (or another word processing application that does support it.

LibreOffice (free, donations to support future development requested)

Regards,

Barry