John Kay

Sorry Lee I'm not up to that, it's a bit too technical for me.

For each type style I have tried to edit from the style editor and any changes I make don't happen and are not shown in the styles themselves. I put in the text box you refer to because then new situation did not happen with those earlier placements of text. John

I tried that but nothing would change the styles.

For the first time I am trying out Publisher with my monthly newsletter. Everything was going fine until after I wanted to insert a hyperlink to be included in one of the text boxes. I went to Interactive/Insert Hyperlink and typed in the one I wanted to include. From that time on all my type styles were converted to the Hyperlink format, that is blue in colour and underlined. The worst thing about it was that I was completely stopped from amending any of these styles to what they should have been. I attach the publisher file in the hope that a) Someone will tell me what I did wrong and b) more importantly, tell me how I can put it right, or better still tell me how to avoid it happening again. Thanks John Feb 22.afpub Feb 22.afpub

Yes Bryan you'll probably find it on Wikipedia. John

Sorry about the term, but I am pretty old, my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I started using PagePlus from when it was first put on the market in the 1980s. John

Thanks for that Bryan, a very well explained contribution and I do appreciate your points. As you can perhaps gather, I am one of the book publishers who deal with large text heavy publications, even though there are many illustrations in my books, there tends to be a heavy set of textual content through the whole book. I have also published translations and local history books. I frequently need footnotes and cross-references so I do currently have an axe to grind. John

I remember the good feeling I used to have as a Serif user when I felt that the management were really keen to listen to and take heed of the suggestions and the feelings of its users. Serif, now as serif affinity, gets larger and has made substantial inroads into Adobe profits from through superior and affordable know you are getting an yet software it also seems to the humble user that they are getting away from this friendly tradition. There is a comparative newcomer on the software block that it would be profitable to take a profound look at, Scrivener. It is taken up with alacrity and enthusiasm by the large number of people who would write fiction and other kinds of texts with the express end-purpose of publication. The slack for this has been taken up by many publish-on-demand firms who make large profits from this market. With all its many uses and facility in organising text, Scrivener is not however quite as good at producing final PDFs for printing. I'm sure there are many of these Scrivener users who would like to know the excellent means of making these PDFs offered by Affinity Publisher. If you want to see the support for this program, all you have to do is to google "Scrivener" and "videos". Lo and behold, a multitude of amateur and professional tuitional videos will appear by the many enthusiastic about this program. Most of them seem to be Apple users as well as long-term Scrivener enthusiasts. To me they seem to offer all the makings of potential customers for Serif. They also tend to A New Marketingprovide extra evidence that the many exPageplus users who specialise in publications which are heavy in textual content should perhaps be better catered for in their requirements for editors and footnotes. Just a thought that I felt could be of interest to those that make decisions. John

I am now getting to grips with Publisher and I appreciate the extra fine adjustment that it provides although the help file still needs a lot of work. I think that the requests for foot/end notes are well justified, a request still not satisfied after three years is unlike the tradition the Serif used to uphold, I know, I've been with them from the start of PagePlus. Many of my books need this as a matter off course, I've tried using pinned text boxes but the result is not pretty and of course is not self-adjusting. Let's have these please , and the sooner the better.

For some reason I seem to have lost the small dialogue at the bottom that I used to click to go the the next page forward or back or the first page or last page of the document. Will I have to reinstall the program to correct this or is there an adjustment I haven't been able to find yet. I have looked but can't find any way to do this. I suppose it could be a bug but I'm not sure. Thank you