how can I edit text within a merged cell in pages

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how can I edit text within a merged cell in pages

In trying to simply sort a list in Pages, I've had to follow a YouTube tutorial which has hit a snag by which I can't select the sorted text within the merged table cell. The table sort of "bounces" when I try. I looked up Lock/Unlock and it's not locked. I tried making the list in Numbers and sorting that way but I can't get the list out of the table and if I merge the Numbers list I can't seem to edit that either. I just want to alphabetically sort a simple list in Pages! Why can't Pages do this? Wordperfect could do this in 1989.

MacBook Air, macOS 15.3

Posted on Feb 14, 2025 01:59 PM

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VikingOSX

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Feb 15, 2025 05:49 AM in response to hummingbird778

Is your goal to simply sort a list of text without it being first in a table, or is this a mandate to sort text in a table?

If it must be sorted in a table, I see in practice that if a merged table cell is anchored in the column to be sorted, it will be treated as if it is in that sorted column. As a test, I start with the following:

and now I tell Column A to Sort Ascending:

If you would rather not use tables to sort lists of text, then I provided an alternative in my Feb 12 post:

Alphabetize (Arranged in Alphabetical Ord… - Apple Community

The risk that you take in watching YouTube videos or posts on the Internet is the age of the video and the version of Pages that was used. You can get answers here without the preceding sentence.

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