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@Leigh Thank you!

It's three weeks after I submitted the requested Publisher and log files to Serif. It's the first time I sent in such files and as I haven't heard anything back yet, I was wondering: Is there a typical timeline for Serif staff to respond? I also noticed that Lee_T didn't respond to a PM and also that he hasn't been around for a couple of weeks.

I just sent the requested files.

Thank you for offering this help. I sent you a PM.

Thanks, Mike. Unfortunately, I cannot share the document publicly because all contents are covered by copyrights.

Thanks for getting back to me, Mike. It's a standalone document, not an Affinity Book. So, this is not something that occurs often. Makes it perhaps even more difficult to sort out. I hope Affinity staff will chime in as I put a lot of work into it!

This strange story continues: I managed, it seems, miraculously to enter some ten new topics and then the app crashed again. The funny thing is that the ten topics and respective markers are all gone now! All the previous topics are still there. I checked a previous incremental safe (including the ten new topics) and it didn't have them either. Makes me wonder whether there's a maximum number of topics (and markers) that can be created.... Anyone having any ideas?

After working fine when adding hundreds of topics to the index of a book of some 270 pages I'm putting together, Publisher has started to crash while adding a new topic from the Index Panel. Also when I try by adding a marker in the text, the program crashes. Interestingly, I'm able to add occurrences of words to existing topics and edit the existing topics. So, I have a big problem because I've quite a few topics to add to the index. Is this a known issue? What can be done about it? I'm on Windows 10 Pro and Affinity Publisher 2.4.0

So simple once you know it. I must have been doing something wrong each time. But I'm getting the hang of it. Thank you, Mike!

Thanks for helping me out, Mike. If that's the case, I must be doing something wrong. Can you tell me how to do this, step by step? As I mentioned in another thread, I still have difficulty with setting the character style and have it fall under paragraph style. I did read your expert guide.

Guys, I'm talking about the index, not the TOC, and I think formatting is done differently there. At least I don't succeed in formatting the entry and page numbers separately.

I would like the index entries with topic names to be bold and the page numbers to be regular. That works by using Initial Words in the Style Panel as long as I set it to one word because when I set it to two or more (some entries consist of more than one word), the bold setting spill over into the numbers next to it. I selected an End Character in Initial Words and tried to enter it behind the topic names but that doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to achieve what I'm after?

Seeing the section with the pink numbering, the penny dropped: Initial Words! That solved my issue. Thanks so much!

I seem to be doing the right thing, but with No Style selected, the number automatically turns to bold after I add the bold text line. (Now I'm going to watch the Brian_J's suggested video tutorial....)

I read a lot of posts about Paragraph and Character styles but for the life of me, I don't manage to find a way to bold the first line of a numbered list without bolding the number. I still haven't been able to get my mind around how these styles interact and how I can make the appropriate settings. How can I do it?

Thanks! Actually, I just went through the whole document and it was easier than I thought. I selected the text of a chapter, cut it, unlinked the first text frame and pasted the text back in again. Now there's no problem when adding extra pages somewhere in the middle of the book. I do a 'save as' after, at least, every chapter, so that I can always go back when things go AWOL. Brian_J and Old Bruce: thanks again for your help!

Thanks, Brian_J. That might be a good way to go about it. While I was doing some stretching, I got another idea: Cut the last chapter, remove the text frame, create a new one via master page and paste the text back in. And then work my way up until I have all chapters in separate text frames. Thanks, Old Bruce. Your advise seems to point towards using the Books feature and is completely logical and would be perfect for projects such as mine. However, I saw too many posts advising against using it. So, I fell into the trap of one text frame. Duh! Anyway, my question -- whether there's a way to unlink two text frames with the option to also cut the text there so that the second text frame retains its text -- has been, albeit implicitly answered in the negative. Too bad as it would have made my issue easy to solve.

Yes, I use a double spread and master pages. The issue is that I tried your second option but the flow of text jumps over some twenty pages. That's confusing and difficult to maintain when further edits are needed. I want separate text flows for each chapter as their subject is not continuous (it's not a novel but a collection of various articles) and I wish to reshuffle them here and there. I would think that multiple text flows would prevent disaster later on. Please correct me if I'm wrong! By havoc I mean that when I change some settings in a text frame that is continued multiple pages down the line, I won't be able to see possible effects. I hope that the above makes it clearer what the situation is and what I'm after. But, as I said, I might be wrong in the whole issue....

Thanks for your replies, guys. Both your solutions are a bit problematic because there are many other chapters following chapter 2. So, copying/pasting or inserting text will (possibly) play havoc with the layout. I'm I correct in saying that what I really want, namely cut the text flow between two frames but leaving the text in the second frame is not possible?

I'm putting together my first Affinity Publisher book (but not using the Books feature) and made, I discovered, a beginners mistake by adding chapter texts in one continues text frame. Now I need to insert another chapter somewhere in the middle and thus first cut the text flow between the two said chapters. I know how to unlink the text frames on the the two pages but would like to have the text of the second chapter start in its own text frame and not stay with the first text frame. Hope I made myself clear...

I want to be able to edit the text in one document so your approach wouldn't work for me.

Wonderful advice @Old Bruce! That gives me an idea how to approach this project. Next, I'll read your directions and suggestions again to make sure I understood and can follow them.

Wonderful advice Old Bruce! That gives me an idea how to approach this project. Next, I'll read your directions and suggestions again to make sure I understood and can follow them.

Those are very useful tips to get me started with text styles. Thanks. Do you also have some suggestions for how to set up the document. Should I use the Books feature or work only in one document?

What about removing all text styles before adding the documents to the Publisher document?