MarioM

Hope the affinity team gets to this soon!

I have a document where some of my chapters have italicized words. When I create or revise a TOC the italicized words in the titles do not carry over to the TOC entries. Would like to see a way to carry over character formatting from the chapter titles to the TOC entries so I don't have to do it manually.

Thanks, MikeTO. Good information to know.

Some of my chapter titles have italicized words. When I create a table of contents, the italics don't carry over. How do I make this happen?

Thanks everyone for your help. I appreciate you all giving your time and thought on this. I learned a few things about kerning and fonts. I have decided to take LibreTraining's advice and just change the font. Mario

Here is a sample page of my document showing instances where the space after a period is much smaller than the spaces between words in the same line. Note "world. A" in the first line, and "end. Westerns" in the 4th line. Thanks for looking at this. sample page MarioM.afpub

My document contains many instances of periods without spaces after them. I'm trying to search for these to correct them, but I am having no luck. Publisher does not seem to be able to find a period. When I type a . into the search box, Publisher returns every single character in the entire document. How do I get it to find a period? Addendum to this question: I believe I figured out how to search for a period. I needed to select "normal" in the settings menu. Now I have a new problem. Many of my periods have abnormally short spaces after them, much shorter than the spaces between words in the same lines. How do I fix this?

Ha ha. Noted, joe_l. I must have heard this advice from somewhere else....

Thank you stokerg! That clears things up nicely. I was truly mystified by what was happening. You saved me a LOT of time.

I have a word file with several styles. When I place the file into an affinity publisher file, the italicized words in some of the styles carry over, but in other styles they do not carry over. I've attached drastically abbreviated versions of both files below with filler text. (The original is over 600 pages). I hope someone here can help me figure out how to carry over all of the italicized text. test document word.docx test document.afpub

Thank you so much h_d. You solved the problem and I am very grateful. Interesting thing is that I created an index in another file and this particular issue did not appear in that new index. Strange.

Walt and Old Bruce, thanks for your attention to this. I followed Walt's instructions regarding placing the cursor. I found that no matter where I placed the cursor there was a + sign after the text style name at the top of the Text Styles panel. The full definition was the same no matter where my cursor was. I tried Walt's advice and hit the reset button, but it did not change anything. Following Old Bruce's suggestion, I made a much abbreviated version of the file with a smaller index and have attached it here. Most entries in the index have periods after the page number. A few do not. The unpaged entries have a period after them as well. Don't know how that happened either. MarioM index period issues.afpub

Old Bruce, thanks for pointing that out. The style that Index Style 2 is based on does not have any tab stops set. Also, would tab stops have anything to do with periods appearing after page numbers in an index?

Here is a new wrinkle to this problem. I added items to the index. The old items still have the period after the page numbers, but the new items do not. As far as I can tell, I did not do anything different with the new items. The new items without the period are in the same style as the old items with the period. I am truly at a loss as to what is happening here. Hope someone can help. (See entries under "Dry Summer." None of them have periods after the page number)

Callum, thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid it did not help. My tab stops are not turned on in the style for my index.