CCK Field usage

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any patches availbale or any plans to integrate support for this into CCK text fields?

I came across several pieces of advice initially suggesting that its more flexible to use a CCK textfield than Drupals default Body field.
I followed this advice and now have a few hundred nodes filled with article content that I now need to introduce a pager to but this does not support CCK fields?

Any suggestions or alternatives?

Thanks