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.

I created my index using the index studio. All the page numbers have a period after them. I don't know how they got there and I don't know how to get rid of them, but I do want to get rid of them. Anyone know what I should do? Screen shot attached.

Thanks, Wosven. I will try that.

Nope. There is no error. It just won't upload. The upload window just has the circle that turns and turns and turns endlessly.

I made a pdf for the interior of my book, and a pdf for the cover of my book using affinity publisher. The cover uploaded successfully to both IngramSpark and kdp. However, the interior file will not. I called both IngramSpark and kdp, but they were both baffled with no idea what was going on. I'm hoping someone here can tell me what the issue might be. Since the cover uploaded successfully to both services, and the interior did not, it seems like the issue must be with the interior file, but I have no idea what that might be. I've tried 3 different browsers, I've re-exported the file and tried again. I cleared the cache's in my browsers. Nothing seems to work. The file is 120 MBs, well below the maximum size for both services. IS allows up to 1.5 GB, and kdp allow ups to 660 MB. My internet speed varies between 13 and 16 mbps. The file is in PDF/X-1a:2003 format. I am using the latest versions of macOS, affinity publisher, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. I am not new to this. I have done many books for both services. I have never encountered this issue and I am at a loss.

Thanks for the information, Old Bruce. You've been very helpful.

Thanks for pointing that out, Old Bruce. What I don't understand is how the table got on the master page. I didn't put it there deliberately. All I did was copy it because I wanted to place a copy of the table on another page. Does this mean the master page is different for different spreads? How does that happen if I only have 1 master page? Also, it doesn't happen for everything I select and copy. Only for some things. I am very confused....

None of my layers are locked.

Hmm. But I don't have these objects on the master page. The Xs appear when I copy the objects. They did not have the Xs before I copied them because they weren't on the master page.

I'm working on a book file in Affinity Publisher. Sometimes when I select an object and copy it, the object gets little Xs in the corners instead of the little circles and then I can't move the object, or edit its text, or float it or resize it. Basically it is locked and I can't do anything with it. Why does this happen? How do I prevent it? And how do I unlock it?

Thank you all again. I am now able to group the images with their captions. You all were very helpful.