Pages Find and Replace is not finding paragraph symbols

This question was asked and answered in 2015, but the solution offered no longer works. 2015 was a long time ago, and MacOS has changed many times. I currently have Sequoia 15.7.1


I would like to remove all of my invisible paragraph symbols in a Pages document. In Find and Replace, I have entered \c, I have copied a paragraph symbol and pasted it into Find and Replace, I have copied a paragraph symbol with Command E as suggested in 2015, I have tried adding a tab after the paragraph symbol and selecting them both as suggested in 2015, but Find and Replace always changes it to a space so that it finds 2000+ spaces, but not the paragraph symbols.


How do I get it to find paragraph symbols? I used to do this with no problem.





iMac 24″, macOS 15.7

Posted on Nov 15, 2025 10:04 AM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2025 12:04 PM

Answered by medwds. Guessing at the wrong solution can't be blamed on Pages or time. The newline (\n) character has been in continuous Pages Find/Replace usage for a very long time, including Pages '09 and probably earlier.


The View Formatting Symbols on Mac has a section about Find and replace formatting symbols. Just don't enter the double quotes that Apple uses there.

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Nov 16, 2025 12:04 PM in response to TRWheaton

Answered by medwds. Guessing at the wrong solution can't be blamed on Pages or time. The newline (\n) character has been in continuous Pages Find/Replace usage for a very long time, including Pages '09 and probably earlier.


The View Formatting Symbols on Mac has a section about Find and replace formatting symbols. Just don't enter the double quotes that Apple uses there.

Pages Find and Replace is not finding paragraph symbols

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