I have a document where the text is in a table. When I click in a cell to append text, the entire cell is selected and the cell content is deleted when I start typing. Fortunately “edit/undo typing “ usually restores the original text but this has become a daily nuisance for me. I cannot see any setting to stop the cell contents all being selected when I click in the cell.
iPad Air, iPadOS 18
With existing text in a Pages 14.4 table cell on iPadOS 18.6.1, and without that table cell selected, you should be able to just tap twice on that cell to position your insertion beam somewhere in the existing cell text, and a third-tap to position behind the existing text so that you can then append text to the cell.
Pages will destroy any selected text when you attempt to type. Same on the Mac.
With existing text in a Pages 14.4 table cell on iPadOS 18.6.1, and without that table cell selected, you should be able to just tap twice on that cell to position your insertion beam somewhere in the existing cell text, and a third-tap to position behind the existing text so that you can then append text to the cell.
Pages will destroy any selected text when you attempt to type. Same on the Mac.
Windows and Word allow text insertion. MacOS and Pages, not being based on MS Windows or Microsoft Word, do not offer the same text insertion features. It is how things work in macOS and is by design, not as a defect.
Thank you for the response.
I think the default process should be to append. Destroying existing text should require more effort.
(Don’t know why I said iPad, when I usually use a MacBook)
I was looking at your profile to determine the implied device. Pages has no append capability when text is selected and you then type something — regardless of the device or operating system.
Thank you. I never had this issue with MS Word, so consider it a defect in Pages.
(I keep getting “your post could not be saved…” Another Apple bug!)
Thank you for your responses. I did not understand the latest comment, and suspect I will go back to MS Word.
Pages deletes existing text in table cell
