Text format with Pages

Question

I have a lot of documents I want to change different text features. For instance verdana, 10pt, color black, remove smart links. How can I do that with Pages?
Can Automator help me do that with Pages? is there any other way?

Answer 1

If you do not know AppleScript, you will have an issue using Automator for what you want to do in Pages, as the default Automator actions are not designed to work on Pages document content. Automator provides an action (Run AppleScript), where you specifically code to work with Pages documents directly using reserved constructs from Pages AppleScript dictionary. This dictionary support is still relatively poor in Pages v5, and for instance, does not know about any kind of link.
The following AppleScript is an example where it will detect the presence of Verdana 12 pt black, and change it to Cambria 14pt blue.
-- change all body text according to the following criteria
-- changing table text is another exercise
-- Caveat: You better be using true black text, otherwise {0,0,0} will not match
tell application "Pages"
    tell body text of front document
        if its font is "Verdana" and its size is 12 and its color is {0, 0, 0} then
            set font of it to "Cambria"
            set color of it to "blue"
            set size of it to 14
       end if
     end tell
end tell