Dave Harris

Both shift-click and dragging a rectangle should work to multi-select with the Move tool. If they don't, something has gone wrong. I'd try quitting and restarting the app, in case it has got confused about something.

In Publisher it is a two-step process. The first step is to get it into a single frame, as you have done. Second step is to shift-click on the triangle bottom-right of the text frame. That autoflows, which will create as many pages and frames as it needs, similar to PagePlus. (But better, because it uses master pages as the template for the new frames, which (from memory) I don't think PagePlus did.) You can also control-click to make one new page/frame at a time. Or just click, to control text flow in more detail. It works the same way regardless of what format the text was in.

Text > Insert > Breaks > Page Break. A line break is a different thing to a paragraph break. For example, you won't get Space after a line break. Our other apps use <CTRL> + <ENTER> for Convert to Curves. That caused huge problems for Publisher. We like having consistency between the apps - that's part of the point of the suite - but that was intolerable. People kept pressing it to end their text-editing session, even though Publisher doesn't really have text editing sessions and you don't have to end them. So currently that short-cut does nothing in Publisher. We'll consider making it do a page break, but I suspect that will again confuse people who think they need to end their editing session. Regardless, you can add it yourself, through Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. Edit: ninja'd by Walt. Spent too long typing

An alternative to using Space after would be to give the image Text Wrap style of Jump. Text will wrap around objects on the master page. Admittedly, this doesn't help much, and using the text style probably makes it easier to spot mistakes when proof-reading, because there'd be an empty gap. You can also pin the image to the header text. This would take a few clicks to set up, but once done, if changes to the document mean the heading flows onto the next page, the image will go with it. So it might work best with Old Bruce's approach of having the image on the master page hidden. The steps would be: Right-click on master page and Edit Detached. Select the image on the Master page and tick the visible box. Click the Float with Text button in the top toolbar. So even more clicks, but you can now do it as you go along rather than it having to be a final step. There isn't currently any way to do this entirely with a text style. Pinned objects were a late addition to the program. At some point we should consider how to integrate them with other features. It would be nice if bullets could be arbitrary objects, and if they could be included as Decorations somehow. If your image is a character in some font (perhaps a custom character in a custom font), then you could probably make it work using Next Style and a bullet style.

As Walk says, we get the default from the font metrics. You can however change that for new documents via Edit > Defaults > Save.

Looks like the first text has a background colour of white, as part of the character formatting. It might have been there for a while without being noticed.

In the Decorations section, set the Relative to field to Column instead of Text.

This was an oversight; it should be fixed in a future beta.

Currently the best way is to switch on View > Show Text Flow, then scroll through the main view looking for text frames that have red circle markers on their left and right edges.

By default you can edit the content of text frames and picture frames that are on master pages. If you want to prevent this, find the master page in the Layers panel, right-click on it and tick Lock instead of Edit Frame Content.

If you switch on View > Show Text Flow, frames in stories with overflow should get red round markers in the main view. The markers are located where the link handles would be if the frame were selected - they effectively turn into the triangular handles when the frame is selected (and stay red for overflow).

If you use master pages to define the page layout for autoflow, then you can include column guides on them too.

It looks like you have Show Samples enabled (in the top-right hamburger menu on the Text Styles panel). Is it possible you defined the style to have a white background? You can switch Show Samples off.

As ever, it was a choice between releasing the product without that feature, or delaying for however long it took to add it. If we waited until footnotes, database merge and IDML import were done, that could easily be another six months. It turns out that a lot of customers can be productive without those features, so we chose to release now. If you aren't one of those customers, that's unfortunate, but you aren't actually worse off today because it was never feasible to have the features ready for today.

This should be fixed in the current beta (gold master).

It's 1.7.1. It's not 1.7.0 any more because we keep the major version numbers in sync with Design and Photo.

It's a limitation we're aware of. We can do gradients with tints of the same spot, or between the spot and white, but not between two different spots.

Ideally, Fit text to box would try to preserve the aspect ratio of the characters, by adjusting leading and tracking.

However, you could use that and then scale the text frame with the extra bottom-right handle. It wouldn't be the same as Fit text to box, but it might be good enough.

Another way would be to use a text frame with a background fill, but using decorations is better because it avoids the need for another text object entirely.

Even for one page, Publisher has features like text wrap, inline images, and baseline grid that may help. And how onerous that unnecessary step is will depend on how well the integration between Publisher and the other apps works out.

You can make the current format settings the default for new documents by using Edit > Defaults > Save. This will affect fill and stroke for shapes and lines, as well as text attributes. Or you can change the default text style definition as Walt suggests.

It's intentional. In general you can put multiple characters into that field. For example, ---->, or [•]. You can also replace the tab with a fixed space. So we don't try to guess what portion of the text you want to delete.

It looks like we have a performance problem with text wrapping around groups of items. If the group doesn't have a wrap outline of its own, it creates one on the fly by combining the outlines of its children, this happens every time the text is drawn, and this can be slow. We'll look into fixing this, but probably not until after the first release now. In the meantime, it can help to select the group, then click the Edit Wrap Outline button (without editing the curve). That effectively gives the group its own outline so it doesn't have to keep calculating it. If you need to edit the contents of the group you can Reset Wrap Outline while you are working, then freeze it again after with the Edit button. I can't tell if this is the issue with VanHeber's complex document without seeing the document, but I have seen this with other documents.

This should be improved in the current beta. We also prevented repositioning inline images entirely - now dragging move the inline character instead.