The lack of global layers makes the current version of Publisher a joke. What's the point of having a layers feature in a page layout application if the changes you make are not applied to every page in the document? It's as if Publisher was designed by people who have no idea how page layout applications are used. After using Affinity Photo for a few months, I purchased Publisher because I really wanted to move away from InDesign for my personal work but the first time I tried using it to work on a multi-page document I was baffled by the behavior of Layers. At first I thought it must be user error and I just need to find out how it's done in Publisher but apparently this is still the Layers behaves in the current version.