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Old Bruce, thank you for persevering with this.  I created the Content Pages from scratch.  Drawing a text frame on each of the two pages (L and R) and then adding the page number text boxes.

The text on each page is copied and pasted from a MSFT word document - all done on my iMac.

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thomaso  Thanks for following up.  I didn't load up a file as I thought I had cracked it.  I was wrong!  Here is the file for your study.  Interestingly, I tried to just send the two pages in the video but when I deleted the others, the problem stopped.........

Any advice would be very welcome. 

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I thought that I had cracked it.  I set up a new Master set - no page number fields - and copied the old document into the new one.  But again I have experienced this strange jumping phenomenon which I have captured in the attached screen video

I make sure that the Left Spread is selected but when I try to select text I jump to the Right Spread and text on the facing page is selected!

It doesn't make a difference if I use the Artistic or Frame tools.   Any ideas?

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Dear all.  Thanks for your rapid response to my cry for help.  very much appreciated.

Reading your different questions and suggestions, I think that the answer lies in my (mis)use of the Master pages.  Rather than waste your valuable time investigating what is increasingly looking like  'operator error' I'm going to reset them to see if it solves the problem and I will revert with the news.  Again, many thanks.

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Thank you to R C-R and thomaso for your willingness to help - very much appreciated.

R C-R: The text frames are (naturally) defined on the Master pages but the text is on the actual page. The Master pages are the L & R spreads plus page numbers

However,

thomaso:Yes, your understanding is correct - but unfortunately, I can't send you the extract because when I try to delete the pages other than 41 & 42, they are also deleted!  I don't understand why - but I guess it profiveds a clue as to what I'm doing wrong.

All help gratefully received.   

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I am writing a book using Publisher. Of late (so it might be a volume problem?) I have had difficulty accessing the text in a frame.  When it goes wrong, I click on a layer and then on the page and the focus switches to another layer.  The attached video clip illustrates my problem - I want to correct the spelling error, so I click on the layer and then on the page's text frame and then active layer switches to the page number frame.  Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong?