I'm a Mac user from wayback. Just got an M1 mac and I cannot get the selection tool to work as it used to. I need to select multiple items and it seems to force me to hold down shift key and select them one at a time. I've looked in every system and Pages corner to find click-and-drag selection. help!
iMac 24″, macOS 13.2
Pages has not had non-contiguous text selection since Oct 2013 and the release of the rewritten Pages. The last Pages that supported it was Pages '09, which as a 32-bit application, is not supported on Catalina or later.
MS Word (e.g. 16.70) allows non-contiguous text selection using the command key. So does LibreOffice Writer 7.5, also using the command key.
I might've found a fix. In Document, unselect header, footer and body. It will ask if you want to convert to page layout- click CONVERT . I agreed to that and can now select groups of items.
Click and drag selection in Pages is not working
