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Thanks for the tip on include page numbers check box.

@Callum Thanks for the video.

Advice on Printing Business Card with same design on both sides. Do I need a two page card? As below. Or could I just use one page and flip the printing card and print one design on both sides? I know I have to set up another document and use file place within a grid to print on the page. Face Mask.afpub

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+1 for ODT support

@walt.farrel correct it does say how you import a text file. That was never the problem. I wanted to know how you saved it in the first place. I have finaly figured it out, it's saved in a blank document and then imported.

@thomaso I thank you for your patience but, all I wanted to know is how do you Save a Style Sheet on it's own so it can be used in another Publisher file.

@Old Bruce I was making the point that the help doesn't give any advice on importing a text Style. Like I said you are correct on the two different styles.

@thomaso I wanted to know how you save the text styles. This not explained yet the official Affinity book uses a blank file with text styles set up in it, that is imported. Now reading between the lines and from what you guy's have taught me is that this one way of importing text styles and, the other is just grabbing from what ever file has what you want. Both ways are good depending what you are trying to do. The big problem is, it's not explained anywhere, you have to figure it out and it shouldn't have to be that way.

@walt.farrell Yes there seems quite a bit you need to be a mind reader about in affinity. Sometimes I feel like a dick asking simple question that the book and help don't cover. There it is, not a lot you can do about it.

@Old Bruce I'm sure you're correct on this. All I wanted to know was If you can import a style, How do you save it in the first place. It seems the help documentation is out of date or doesn't explain things fully (leaves a lot to be desired). I now know that you just import from any Publisher file. It looks like you have to either create a blank file with styles set up or you take a pre-created file and delete all contents except the styles and do a save as to a publisher file, to be used in another project. @Old Bruce can you confirm this? No one wants to hunt through files, that you may only to use a styles file. For the sake of neatness you keep all your assets together.

No option to save as an .afstyles file. As you do according to the help

@thomaso @GarryP Just tried it and yes you can import from any file Thanks guy's. Again this is not explained in the help or the book.

@thoamso @GarryP this is not explained very well the book does not say this nor the help. Now you're telling me I can just get from any file. Great! From the help: Styles are predesigned sets of effects, fills, colors and other properties that can be instantly applied to objects. They are managed on the Styles panel. Your Affinity app can import compatible styles files with an .afstyles file extension. If styles are supplied in a ZIP archive, extract the archive's contents before proceeding. To import styles: Select the Styles panel. From the Panel Preferences menu, select Import Styles Category. Browse to and select the .afstyles file you want to import. Click Open. After importing @thomaso like I said you create an empty file by what ever means (a copy deleting al contents except styles) and using it. I said this in my original post all you had to do was confirm it. Don't mean to sound arssee but no worries.

@tomaso it's the saving the style I'm a bit confused about. The importing is not a problem. From what I can see it's an empty document with some styles created that you save. It doesn't look like you can export styles. Now this is not explained anywhere. Not in the help not on a search in this forum, and not in the book they sell.

@GarryPYou know when you import a style sheet, the opposite of that. How do you export or save that style sheet. The file is from the work book but how would I do something similar. I just don't get it, it looks like you have to create an empty document with some created styles as a style sheet to be imported. If so this is not explained anywhere. protected attachment removed by MOD

I know you can import a Text Style sheet but, how do you go about saving or exporting a Text Style sheet. Can't see anything in Publisher's official book or the help on how to do this. Is it a question of saving an empty document with styles set up and then importing it into another document? Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks Dai

Just set it as Filler Text as Text now it's behaving as it did before, as I remember (no I'm not going senile). Can't remember changing that setting. @Old Bruce@walt.farrell Cheers.

My filler text (Ipsum Lorem) is not working as normal text. When I double click it selects everything No problem there. Can't place the cursor in text, can't select any sentences or paragraphs. Is this a bug or has it always been like this? Don't have these problems with normal text. If memory serves me correct I'm sure I've selected over flow text to delete it before (Why am I doubting myself).

@WosvenI did mention style settings panel in my original post and that it showed the triangle was changed to up but, the rest of the style didn't.

I'm still not sure if he flipped as an override or it's a bug in the software. I do know it's very confusing when reading the styles. @walt.farrellChanging the text to bullet does seem to indicate he used styles (I think). between that and the styles box is does indicate a style and not a manual override. I suspect this is happening in other styles in the program. This is what I should be seeing:

@Callum Thanks for taking the time to help out but I just got it sorted. The Tw*t made a style for it but, flipped the triangle manually in the paragraph panel. Basically my fault I shouldn't rely on what the book say's as it riddled with inconsistencies and a lot of things that don't have explanations. The book is wonderfully put together but the content leaves a lot to be desired. magazine_profile_completed.afpub

I've completed the SpotLight magazine exercise from the Publisher Work Book. But I'm a little confused on one of the styles. -SP- CaptionArrowUp It's based on -SP- CaptionArrowDown but -SP- CaptionArrowUp has no alteration for the arrow to point up when you look at the style. Could anyone enlighten me on what I'm missing as to how -SP- CaptionArrowUp works when logic say's it should have a down arrow. he used Arial font to create the triangle. For the life of me I just can't see how the -SP- CaptionArrowUp gets tranformed, even though the styles settings box shows the change I can't see where the change was made. Pages are 9 and 10 Here are two screen shots to show what I mean: Dai Spotlight Mag.afpub

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