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Pages' Screen View destroyed my document

I have a Pages document that contains one big table. I activated Screen View just to see what it looked like. I found that it was a completely useless feature so I deactivated it. I then noticed that the formatting of the table was completely changed: each row was very large (before that the size of each row was carefully chosen by me). I tried to "cancel", but nothing changed. I quit and reopened the document. At first I thought it was fixed, because the rows seemed to be the correct size. But then, scrolling through the document, I noticed to my horror that many rows were just repeated throughout the table, i.e., copy/pasted in more or less unpredictable ways. In a few minutes my carefully crafted document was randomly scrambled and mixed.

I miss the (now very distant) days when Apple was synonym with "it just works".

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I cannot reproduce this and another earlier user's post initially thought that Screen View altered their table(s), but later found it did not. Even Page's Screen View documentation excludes the feature altering original Pages document content on exiting Screen View.