Pages 7.1 in High Sierra, I SELECTED two words manually styled within an auto page created book. I click the TEXT menu, STYLE menu, Character Styles menu, but the PLUS is grayed out, REDEFINE FROM SELECTION is grayed out.
How do I get the PLUS to change from gray to black, and to turn on REDEFINE FROM SELECTION?
iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), 17,1 Retina 5K 3.3GHz Intel i5
The ‘+’ control button will be greyed out if the selected text contains content without any active character styles, or ‘None’ as the selected style.
Apply a character style, to some selected text and the control will become active, and you will be able to create a new character style based on the selected text.
You don’t have to apply character styles using the Character Styles drop down menu. You can use Format > Font > [and select a character style option], or use a keyboard shortcut to apply a style.
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Selecting the complete word and applying Italic, Emphasis or Underline from the Character Styles control enables the user to add new styles, whereas applying Italic, Emphasis [Bold] or Underline using the other methods described above does not.
Some might call it a feature.
...what does Rename Style suggest to you?
The specific Template, which you finally told us you were using, is aimed at the production of eBooks.
As such it may be restricted to the preset styles, features, and XML used in eBooks.
To isolate a problem, you need to be clear about what you are using, what happens when you vary what you are doing, and where it is different.
That is because the one word is not an override of anything else.
Try it again with two words and just change one.
With the selected text as shown in your grab, try selecting Link from the menu options.
You should then see Link as the value for the Character Styles button label.
If you then tap the button, again the '+' sign ought to have become 'black' and active.
I keep telling you the plus is grayed out on this specific Apple template. You can’t use PLUS. It never actvates. Neither is redefine styles activated. On this template all I can do is copy and change
I don't think I can help you further.
I am guessing that by ‘this’, you intend the Blank Book template, and that you intend also to say that, ‘it’ the ‘+’ control button works in other template/documents.
Assuming the above is correct, and if using the template and the styles and settings that the Blank Book template offers is important, then simply emulate the template in a custom template using some other template as the starting document.
Alternatively, you could reinstall Pages, and see if that fixes your issue.
You mean Toolbar > Format > Sidebar > Text > Character Styles?
I am using Pages 7.1 in Sierra and it works for me.
The only thought I have is that you have a font which does not have a bold or italic and you are using that but it does not constitute a real exception.
Try doing something more radical such as change the actual font or color and see if that lets you create a new Character Style, once created, change that to what you want.
There appears to be a bug in 7.1.
Here is one way you may reproduce it…
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
As you see it in my screensnap, with the sample coming up as None in the Character Style list.
You can select and change the None to something more useful.
If I click on the + I get None 1, 2 etc
Because in your particular template it does not apply.
Why don't you try things.
Use another template and see what is different.
...and read my posts, including the repeated questions I asked you.
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Perhaps this is the only place it does not apply.
If I am sounding exasperated, think about why that may be so.
After you apply the 'Link' character style, ignore the greyed out arrow menu options, and tap the ‘+’ control at the top right of the Character Styles dialogue.
This should create a new style called ‘Link 1’ All this does is duplicate the Link style, and lets you rename the style.
Next, edit the selected text with the ‘Link 1’ character style applied to it e.g. select it, and add emphasis [cmd+b].
You should see an asterisk appear on the Character Styles label e.g. ‘Link 1*’.
Tap on the button and you should see a dialogue like this:
From here you can Update the style ‘Link 1’ or tap the grey arrow and select any of the usual menu options.
In macOS it is Toolbar/Format/Text/Style/ however, I believe I needed to make paragraph styles, rather than text styles. THAT WORKED for heads and body text styles.
BUT, I selected one character in the body, went to the CHARACTER STYLES and neither the plus sign nor REDEFINE FROM SELECTION was available.
Can you tell me what type of character will make the settings available? I selected a Janson Text character To make the new selection but the items Mentioned were grayed.
You're right, I left out Pages; should have read macOS/Pages/Toolbar . . . I thought you might be running windows. OK.
Character Styles:
How do I get the X in character style window (clicking) to stop being gray? I select one character, a word, then several words, then several sentences, and none of these selections will get the X to turn black, so I can't add a new character style.
Do I have to have a character alone in a text box, or alone in a shape for it to work?
Forget Paragraph styles, I understand and can do it.
We’ve been through all that ugaijin.
None is the name of an unnamed character style as you can see in my example.
blackxacto has done something else but hasnt said. I still don’t where or what the text is.
Keeps calling the + an x as well.
Pages will not allow me to make text styles
