I am typing a Pages document, suddenly the option for choosing colour for text , is gone. I tried to do anything to fix it and my whole document disappeared. I had saved what I had typed , but when I click on it , it shows nothing .. How do I retrieve this document ? appreciate any suggestions
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.6
The very first thing that you should do when opening a new document from a Pages template is manually save that document to a known location with a real filename (not Untitled.pages). That does two things for you:
Each time you open, edit, and close a Pages document after the initial save, changes are AutoSaved, and a new document version is maintained.
That said, any text that you have selected will vanish with any subsequent key stroke, and if you selected the entire document contents, and entered that keystroke, it would give the very true illusion that your document is gone.
However, on the Pages File menu is Revert To > Browse All Versions… which shows the current document on the left (yours may be blank) and on the right, a history of preceding document revisions that you can select and restore over the current document. It looks like this:
I suggest that you try this first, and if no success, then hopefully you have a Time Machine backup that you can go back in time and restore your Pages document as it was before the accident.
The very first thing that you should do when opening a new document from a Pages template is manually save that document to a known location with a real filename (not Untitled.pages). That does two things for you:
Each time you open, edit, and close a Pages document after the initial save, changes are AutoSaved, and a new document version is maintained.
That said, any text that you have selected will vanish with any subsequent key stroke, and if you selected the entire document contents, and entered that keystroke, it would give the very true illusion that your document is gone.
However, on the Pages File menu is Revert To > Browse All Versions… which shows the current document on the left (yours may be blank) and on the right, a history of preceding document revisions that you can select and restore over the current document. It looks like this:
I suggest that you try this first, and if no success, then hopefully you have a Time Machine backup that you can go back in time and restore your Pages document as it was before the accident.
thank you for your reply . i continuously save my pages document as I type (don’t use a template as that confuses me ) . I was making a catalogue of my stamps and trying to colour the number of mint stamps for every set (eg (2M) , (8M) or however many stamps in the set . Anyway , at one point , i couldn’t see the option for choosing a colour in the side panel , and that is how i lost my whole document and just ended with a blank page , couldn’t find in pages the recent page I was working on , so i just restarted from scratch ! Still don’t understand why you get different side panels and how to stay in the one you want . I must have tapped something to erase what i had typed . i looked up the ‘revert to ‘ in Pages , but it has nothing , Anyway , i finished my project, but wish i knew why suddenly the side panel changed .
You cannot create a Pages document without first choosing a blank or other template.
I recommend you get acquainted with Pages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support if you intend to be doing any more Pages work.
There is insufficient information in your original or subsequent post that would reveal what actually caused your document or panel issue.
lost pages document while typing
