MikeTO

You really do have to go to System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Items and remove the app from the list. This is a macOS preference, not an Affinity preference. Alternatively, while holding down the Option key, click and hold down the mouse button on the Affinity icon in the task bar. From the menu that appears, deselect Options > Open at Login.

Which version of Publisher are you using? Does it happen if you copy the text from Word and paste it into a Publisher text frame? Does it happen with other Word documents or just this Word document?

When I edit one of my posts in this forum or anywhere else online, it's typically immediately after posting because I made a mistake or realize I could have phrased it better. Sometimes later in the day it will occur to me that I left out important information but in that case I would prefer to reply rather than edit because doing so means others will be more likely to see it if they've already seen my original post.

Fair point. I guess I'd just given up ever having completely correct spelling dictionaries as most software and computer companies ignore Canadian English.

Can't you just "learn" the spellings? I've had to do this many times in many apps over the years for Canadian spellings.

I've been working around this bug by deleting and re-adding the index each time since update doesn't work with the text frame on the master page. But I just realized it's much easier to rely on the Fix button in pre-flight. I hadn't noticed that handy feature before!

No. But you could create a new character or paragraph style based on the current formatting and then apply it to other text.

I think this has been discussed before: If you uncheck this option in Preferences > Auto Correct the issue will go away. Of course that might cause you another problem.

Not arguing, only pointing out that there are three unrelated feature requests in this thread to help others clarify exactly what they're requesting.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the issue. I can see the entire text for a ridiculously long section name if I resize the Section Manager window wider. And if I insert the section name as a field, the entire name is inserted. And it's updated if I edit the section name again. Where are you seeing truncation?

Just to break this down because it's not clear to me, there are three separate requests in this thread. One is the ability to edit a story inside of Publisher in a streamlined tag-based editor without rich formatting to allow focusing on the words. PageMaker introduced this feature eons ago to overcome slow hardware, not to allow users to focus, but the feature because popular in all of the apps that copied it for its focus benefits. I can't speak for Serif and I've never used PagePlus, but I suspect WritePlus was introduced for the same reason. Another request is to edit the story in a standalone editor akin to Adobe InCopy or Quark Copy Desk, a rich formatting companion word processor designed expressly for multiple authors to edit external content. This is ideal for newspaper and magazine environments because there is no formatting loss when editing the content externally. The third request is to edit the story in third party apps such as MS Word or Apple Pages. This is the most complicated because the importing and exporting has to be perfect for round-trip editing without formatting loss. The layout app also has to offer style mapping which Publisher currently lacks. Then there are the sync issues - even Office 365 has issues with people editing the same text simultaneously, especially over laggy corporate network connections. I think it might be useful to be clear which features are being advocated for. For my personal needs, I'm working as a single user so I only need the ability to focus. I write my draft in a text editor without any formatting because I'm easily distracted (I'm wasting time right now!) but I would appreciate the ability to focus on the text at a later time without losing the formatting so a built-in story editor would be ideal for me. However, it's a low priority feature for me compared to cross reference support. 🙂

FWIW it crashes for me when placing, too. It would be interesting to open this in MS Word and to re-save it and then test it again to verify whether it's a valid Word file - it may have been exported from another app and be malformed. Publisher shouldn't crash regardless but it's worth checking. I don't have Word on my personal laptop so I can't check but when I opened it in Apple Pages I noted that the tables were malformed which makes me suspect this was exported from another app.

If you're buying an M1 iMac your choice is 8 or 16MB. Go for 16 because you can't upgrade it later and you may regret going with less memory. If you have to cut corners go with a smaller SSD because you can always use an external SSD for additional storage.

No although you can change the font UI size in Preferences > User Interface. I use a 13" MacBook Pro screen and I recently tried increasing my screen resolution from the default 1280x800 to 1440x900 so I could squeeze in more studio panels at once but then the user interface was too small so I switched back. You may wish to consider changing your screen resolution. I'm confused, why do the rulers not start at the top left at 0,0? AFAIK there is no way to lock them there but the only way to change them is to drag out from the ruler origin so if you don't want to do that, don't do it, and if you do it by mistake just choose undo. If you have Window > Separated Mode enabled you can position the studio panels wherever you like and have as many open as you like. On a small screen like mine it's better to keep that off so that the panels are docked without wasting any space. With separated mode off, you can have some studio panels in the left column and some in the right column - tabs are used to switch between them so although only one is visible at a time in the left or right column, you can tab between them. I believe the Windows version may allow two right studio columns.

I think it's because this is the humour thread, every board needs to have one. With that in mind, I'll cast my vote for Rexx! 🙂

If it's all one series of linked text frames then deleting pages near the front is just deleting the containers and the text is reflowing to the next pages. Ensure you break the text frame linking so that the pages you want to delete are not linked from or to any other pages before deleting them. If you've already done this, then you'll likely need to upload a document for review, either publicly or via a dropbox link provided by Serif.

Nice photo! I also like old manhole covers and don't mind the word sewer but I understand why you'd want to change it.

I think using bullets with centred text makes for awkward typography and an unbalanced design. e.g., * apples * pineapples * pears My preference if emphasis is required is to add symbols before and after for balance. e.g., * apples * * pineapples * * pears * You could also consider using a more interesting flourish than a bullet. I think the way Publisher handles it is fine and not a bug since lots of other programs do it this way (e.g., Apple Pages). But if you really want to do it then don't use the bulleted list feature - instead insert a bullet character and then one or more spaces before the list item.

Me either, so I think Jens wins the award for finding the most obscure bug of the week. 🙂

It's not related to copying and pasting into the Replace field - it can happen if you do the same thing to the text you enter into the Find field. I think the bug happens when any break character such as a space, period, or comma is selected in either field and you choose a special character. If you enter: "abc.def" and select the period and then choose any special character the result will be "def#abc" where # is the special character.

I know, my request was that Esc do this, too. Some of us have muscle memory from previous apps that allowed easier switching to the Move (aka Select or Object) tool by pressing Esc once or twice, depending on the app. It's a lot easier than pressing Esc and then V. Allowing objects to be selected and manipulated with any tool has huge advantages so it's great that the Affinity apps offer this. But it introduces modality which is usually avoided because it increases cognitive load. e.g., you can press V if the Rectangle tool is selected but you must press Esc and then V if the Frame Text tool is selected. I'm not saying Serif shouldn't have taken this approach, I think it's great, but the Move tool is the most basic tool and deserves the easiest possible way to select it that doesn't require the user to be conscious of the mode.

Interesting, I have never used those fields in the Context bar to enter anything - I create my styles with the studio panels and then never use individual attributes. I couldn't immediately duplicate your issue. However, I did notice another bug while looking at this - using Arrow Up and Arrow Down while in the Paragraph or Character Style lists in the Context Bar will increment and decrement numeric values rather than moving through the list items. Here's a movie showing the issue which is easily repeatable. Screen Recording 2021-09-04 at 1.03.46 PM.mov

Just press Esc and then V. It's not as intuitive as hitting Esc or Esc twice as in other programs but there's no need to click on an empty space.

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I don't know anything about the fonts in question but if you're trying to compare MS Word and any professional page layout app ensure you have auto kerning enabled or disabled in both programs. I don't have Word on my computer but IIRC you have to turn on auto kerning in Word.