I am pasting plain text into Pages. When I paste, I get the plain text formatting characters (*BOLD*, _ITALICS_) when I paste. Is there away for Pages to recognize these prompts and format the text accordingly?
MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)
You are not pasting plain text, but text with multi-markdown styling syntax in it. Pages is not designed to detect and convert multi-markdown styling hints. But all is not lost…
Copy the multi-markdown content to the clipboard, and run the following Shortcuts workflow to convert the multi-markdown content into Rich text. Then paste that Rich Text into Pages and you will have bold and italic styling.
and after pasting into Pages v14.3 on Sequoia v15.3.2:
when the following was copied to the clipboard beforehand:
The bold and italicized words could also be surrounded by double underscores.
Errata:
"converted to markdown." should read "converted from markdown."
Plain text formatting in Pages
