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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1922990" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Oh I know they are different. But if you follow the exact steps I used and see the end result as I posted, well I can see how confusion can result, even though this is actually the correct behavior of the app (I'm certain any other modern word processor would do the same). And the experience was identical, whether web archive or the website itself. I don't think Pages was capable of pasting copied text so precisely in the past in terms of the exact font used, size, color, etc. No word processor could. It's a fairly modern enhancement. At the least, I know the commenting system here couldn't do that, but now it can. So if you operate on the assumption that the OP was using an older version of Pages that couldn't be this precise and now is this precise. and consider that there is a background color that makes it LOOK like all the text is selected; well that would explain a lot. The insistence that Pages used to be a simple text editor is extremely inaccurate, but it wasn't as "robust" as it is now.</p><p></p><p>EDIT 3: I deleted my previous edits because I got confused... LOL! Pages 10.1 does do pasting the same as v12+. My bad. But v10.1 is as far back as I can go, short of setting up a still older version of OS X in a vm, and I'm not going to do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1922990, member: 38864"] Oh I know they are different. But if you follow the exact steps I used and see the end result as I posted, well I can see how confusion can result, even though this is actually the correct behavior of the app (I'm certain any other modern word processor would do the same). And the experience was identical, whether web archive or the website itself. I don't think Pages was capable of pasting copied text so precisely in the past in terms of the exact font used, size, color, etc. No word processor could. It's a fairly modern enhancement. At the least, I know the commenting system here couldn't do that, but now it can. So if you operate on the assumption that the OP was using an older version of Pages that couldn't be this precise and now is this precise. and consider that there is a background color that makes it LOOK like all the text is selected; well that would explain a lot. The insistence that Pages used to be a simple text editor is extremely inaccurate, but it wasn't as "robust" as it is now. EDIT 3: I deleted my previous edits because I got confused... LOL! Pages 10.1 does do pasting the same as v12+. My bad. But v10.1 is as far back as I can go, short of setting up a still older version of OS X in a vm, and I'm not going to do that. [/QUOTE]
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