Pages on Mac. This is an odd one. What does this mean?

Question

Level 1

26 points

Pages on Mac. This is an odd one. What does this mean?

I copied this document from word. that para was selected in word. It come over with this strange bracketing. Is it corrupted? When I hide invisibles it doesn't show. does anybody know a way I can delete the bracketing for real?

Mac Studio, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 22, 2024 1:00 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Aug 22, 2024 1:11 PM in response to nowsthetime

Pages is not a Word clone, and as obvious as that may sound, Word uses hidden styling behind the text that it presents, and Word-specific styling is not 100% compatible with Pages when you perform a copy/paste. For instance, Pages has no clue about Word Bibliography, Citations, or References. I think that is what those parentheses are in your enclosed content.

You may try a couple of approaches:

Open that Word document in another Pages document and then copy/paste that selection between Pages documents.
Select that text in Word and then click, hold, and then drag that text from Word to the Pages document as in the following animation… (Refresh your browser ⌘R to replay the animation as I have limited it:

Reply