SarahB

Hi Walt Can you please expand on 'it's tricky but it can be done'? I am working on a document which has texted copied & pasted from a variety of different sources and have a mix of straight and typographic. I would like to find/replace all the straight with typographic but am not sure how.

I would agree that something has gone a bit weird, I'm just not sure how! I'll tidy it up and see if that helps. Thanks for your time

Here you go. I notice that dragging the table into the document also adds a Bullet text style, I have no idea where that is in the table though. One of the reasons I have 'body copy' in every cell (to be replaced with updated text) is that I couldn't get the styles to 'stick' unless there was text in the cells. Thanks for your help Asset table.afpub

Thank you!

Yes, there is text in the tables with associated styles. But I also have a couple of text boxes with styled text that I have as assets and adding those to my document doesn't duplicate the text styles. Only when I add a table.

I have a text frame with one angled side. I need to make several of these, all different widths depending on the text content, but I can't find a way to change the width without the angle of the left hand side changing too. I can adjust the angle manually, but is there a way to change the length and maintain the same angle?

Nobody has any ideas about why adding a table from assets creates new paragraph styles in my document?

Edit - I've just realised that it isn't the copying and pasting that is creating the new paragraph styles. I have the tables set up as assets so I can just drag one onto a page where needed. It is adding this asset that creates the new paragraph styles. So new question - how can I prevent that? I am recreating a document in Publisher which includes many tables. I have set up my paragraph styles eg Table Body Copy, Table Row Headers etc. However, when I copy text from the source document and paste without format, the text is copied as Table Body Copy 1, Table Row Header 1 etc. I have to select the newly copied text, apply the correct paragraph style, add in the paragraph breaks which are removed when I apply the correct style, delete the paragraph style I don't want. I have around 100 tables to recreate and this is unworkable. What am I doing wrong?

I've lost track of the different actions that cause this to happen for me — pasting text copied from a text file, drawing a guide, changing a paragraph style are just a few of them. It also happens several times in a working day for me and I've got into the habit of save/close/reopen to fix it.

Thanks Walt, that sounds like a solution.

Thanks for your response. So a 'global' colour isn't global at all and is only specific to the document you are working on. Obviously it is a lack of training on my part (I've been using Designer for all of a week but in a bit of a rush to recreate a job to avoid having to continue using other software), but I created an application palette for this client since I will be working on various jobs for them and thought the correct colours would be available for every job. I'm not sure I see the point of an application palette if you can't make changes to a colour within it and have that colour update everywhere it is used. Everything was going so well, the rest of the software seems far more intuitive than what I have been using until now, but the way colours are managed seems strange.

I am creating a document in Publisher and have created a colour swatch with my organisation's corporate colours. I have various text and table styles based on the colours in that swatch. The organisation has decided on a minor change to one of their corporate colours, so I edited that colour in my swatch and updated the CMYK values. None of the styles that use that colour have been updated. I had a back up copy of the document so tried creating the new colour first and then deleting the old colour, expecting that I would be asked which colour I want to replace it with, but nothing. Do I really have to go through every style and update the colour individually? Surely if you use a colour in that swatch and then edit the colour, everything using that colour should change. What am I missing?

The same thing has started happening to me today AP 1.8.3, High Sierra 10.13.6, Macbook Pro 13. Nothing to do with gradients for me, but seems to start happening after I draw a guide. It seems nothing has been updated on this issue since September 2018, but it is still happening.

Another vote for being able to easily navigate to different sections, although RM f/g's suggestion is a useful workaround.

I've been searching for the same quick navigation option but can't find anything which is a shame.