[Edited by Moderator]
Mac mini, macOS 15.6
You can set Edit menu > Turn off Tracking to suppress that tracking information you provided in your posted image. Then you can blissfully select text and type over it without issue.
You can set Edit menu > Turn off Tracking to suppress that tracking information you provided in your posted image. Then you can blissfully select text and type over it without issue.
Change Tracking is important in many use cases, especially in legal and contract documents where multiple people contribute over time, adding or deleting clauses, providing clarification, etc. (commonly referred to as 'contract redlining'), and provides a form of version control, where you can see what changes and additions were made to a document over time.
If you're not used to it, seeing the edits in this way can be confusing, as you've found, but turning it off reverts to the 'normal' mode.
Selected text in Pages is destroyed, or in this case deleted, when you then type anything else. The Pages tracking facility shows that you deleted the original text selection owing to the first sentence condition.
"owing to the first sentence condition."
So I have no idea of what this means. As far as I know, when I select text and start typing, the newly typed text appears - plain and simple, nothing else. So how can I revert to that blissful state instead of this incomprehensible stuff?
Not only am I not used to it, I didn't even know that there was a Tracking feature in the Edit menu. I must have turned it on inadvertently. Now that it's off, my life has reverted to zen like tranquility. Thanks to all who have contributed to my new-found state of bliss.
Selecting Text Results in Gibberish
