Yes, I agree. Stripping the ability to save in rtf was incredibly shortsided. 
However, yes you can copy your text into text edit and save in rtf. 

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> On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Daniel, I’ll report this as a problem. This is going to prevent my 
> husband from upgrading to Mavericks as he relies on the merge fields for 
> invoicing. How very short-sighted of Apple to do this. They seem to have made 
> the iWork suite as near to the IOS version as possible. A very bad idea as 
> far as I’m concerned.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
>> On 26 Oct 2013, at 22:14, Daniel Miller <miller...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> Unfortunately, you are correct. We have lost all those features, which is 
>> rather annoying just power users. I also don't like the fact that we can't 
>> export to RTF files anymore.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I seriously hope I’m wrong about this, but I can’t find the merge fields 
>>> anywhere in the new Pages. This makes it very complicated, if not 
>>> impossible, to use Pages for mail shots and invoices.
>>> 
>>> Another problem I’ve found is the lack of hotkeys for setting styles. Where 
>>> have they gone?
>>> 
>>> I hope we haven’t gained easier access to tables in Pages, which we could 
>>> manage anyway with a bit of messing about, just to lose really important 
>>> features such as merge fields and hotkeys.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Anne
>>> 
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