Pasting Delimited Text into Tables in Pages 11 (and Numbers 11)
Repeat of an old question: adjusting table settings- data delimiters (URL: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250570457?answerId=251092517022#251092517022
The original question was for Numbers; mine is for Pages VERSION 11. The original question was answered by "Yellowbox" for Numbers versions earlier than 11 (or maybe 10). The instructions are correct, but only down to the Row and Column Size adjuster. "Table Direction" and everything that follows that line no longer appears in Pages 11 and Numbers 11.
I've been able to paste a tab-delimited list into both Pages 11 and Numbers 11 and SOMETIMES have it fill multiple columns--but not always. Space-delimited lists do it even less frequently (in my experience).
I"ve found that the "Adjust Import Settings" business appears ONLY IMMEDIATELY after pasting a tab-delimited list into the table. And as Yellowbox said, it disappears after a few seconds. There seems to be no way to REQUEST it to appear.
Pages 11 Help has nothing on this subject, and I've been unable to find anything about it in any searches online for Pages 11 or Numbers 11. It's rather frustrating.
(Sometimes I long for WordPerfect, which did this stuff--and more--easily. It even could copy and manipulate rectangular blocks of text as if they were a table column. No thanks to Bill Gates for making Microsoft kneel on it .)