Hilltop

Excellent video, Trent!

Frequency Separation is a useful concept for touching up photos. But there are some foundational concepts that should be understood to make the most out of this technique. In this video, I’ll cover these concepts from the ground up. 
 

Affinity Designer has lots of options for warping vectors and text. But can you actually warp images? Today I’ll show you how to use this easy-to-miss feature.
 

Hue Range Masks give you much more power and flexibility when masking based on colors. Today we’ll look at how to use the Hue Range Mask feature in Affinity Photo, along with ways to combine them with adjustment layers.
 

Compound Masks give you much more power and flexibility when combining masks. Today we’ll look at how to use the Compound Mask feature in Affinity Photo, along with ways to combine them with adjustment layers.
 

Luminosity Masks are a way to dynamically create masks based on levels of dark and light. In this video, we’ll look at this feature from the ground up and see how it can be applied to your photographs. 
 

Blend Modes are a critical concept in many graphics and video programs. In this crash course video, we’ll look at how they work in the Affinity suite. 
 

Live Filters in Affinity Photo can be used to fix your images or even to make new creative effects. How do they work? In this video, we’ll check them out.
 

Half Tones are a cool effect you can use to add some vintage flair to your artwork. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how this filter works in Affinity Photo.
 

The Paint Mixer Brush tool is a great way to realistically mix paint on your canvas. Today we’ll look at how to use this tool and what the settings mean.
 
 

Loading Procreate brushes into Affinity takes a few steps, but it is possible. In this video, we’ll look at how to load 2 types of brushes (Stamp Brushes, Texture Brushes) and also review some Dynamics settings to make them look even better.
PS: If anyone from Serif (or should I say Canva?) is reading, it would be a cool feature if Procreate brushes could be loaded as easily as Photoshop brushes. It seems like it would be a relatively easy feature to implement.
 
 

Loading Photoshop brushes into Affinity is pretty simple. But sometimes brushes have cool effects that require some extra steps. In this video, we’ll look at loading a simple Photoshop brush and a more complex brush into Affinity Photo
 

Go to File/Document Setup and check 'Facing pages'.

Hi hilltop, 
as MikeTO mentioned, if you could send a crash report and document to this (private) dropbox link we can take a look:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/request/yHleKApjounKoMERb2Ow

To create an index with bold entries and not-bold numbers:
If you edited the index styles and added initial words, undo that because that will be confusing. Update the index so there is no overriding formatting. Edit the "Index Entry 1" paragraph style and make it Bold. Edit the "Index Entry Page Number" character style and make it not bold (normal, regular...) Cheers

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

Does the following post help?
 

Here’s a video on the Affinity Publisher YouTube channel that may be helpful. I think the entire video is worth watching; see time 9:13 for formatting the first sentence of each list item.
 

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Jacek. 
From the Help on Bullets and numbering:
 

In this case yes, multiple text flows would be best in my opinion too. I did my usual leap to the wrong conclusion and offered up bad advice.
The way I would do this is to make a Template, include the text styles you'll want to use. Include some Master Pages you'll use and lay out each article/chapter in separate documents, just do a quick and nasty layout so you know how long each article is. Nine pages, or twenty two and a half or six and a quarter. Then you'll know the total number of pages required.
Then do the actual layout with all the fine tuning. If you need to move the articles around I would think it would be much easier than trying to insert text into a single text flow as I had suggested. Be aware that moveing pages using the Pages Panel is apparently finicky. So check and double check after doing so. Save often and do the occasional File > Save As... after moving pages to have backups.

Ingenious. That sounds like a good way to go about it.
I tend to save a backup of a file before making any drastic edits just in case things get hosed up. If you work your way back from the last chapter as you mentioned, saving a backup copy prior to the edits would be optional.

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! 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!

The Frame Text Tool in Affinity products is great for large amounts of text such as paragraphs. This video is relevant for Affinity Designer, Publisher, and Photo. However, Publisher has a few extra special features that we’ll cover. 
 

@TrentL Your videos are wonderfully clear and really helpful! There is just one thing in this one that you might not have found. At least on MAC it is possible to Insert filler text and edit it if you go to Settings>Text and check Insert filler text as text. The default is unchecked. This option is available in Publisher, Designer, and Photo.  When this is checked, one can change fonts from word to word, split the filler text into paragraphs, experiment with tab settings, etc.  Very handy and not immediately discoverable☺️!