charlesbewlay

A couple of other odd things, a bit off this topic, but… Do you know of any way of switching from the text tool to the pointer tool, without having to drag all the way to select it? I''ve tried all the tricks of holding down keys, option, comtrol and command but nothing works. The other thing is that Ingram Spark, having uploaded my text file tells me that I've got too fine lines (less than 0.125" I think), but I see no way of finding such offending lines. Any ideas?

Hey, after showing special characters, I just thought of hitting return and boom, all well. Just had to delete the extra para by going to the next para, hitting delete and then restyling that para. so thanks for the ideas which set me on the right path. Deleting the para symbol did the same thing as adding the extra para. Thanks all.

Hi there ll. I have a text flow into the next page that isn't working. It's as if there is something invisible there, with text wrapping there. There was a white box there, but that is deleted, and nothing in Layers shows anything. All Paragraph settings are fine. If I switch to 'Keep paragraph together' the whole para goes to the right-hand page. Any ideas?

The tables had my own specific styles in fact. Like 'Table heading'. Table text left' etc, or something like that anyhow, not Heading 2. Anyhow, all's well that ends well, and at least this has brought all these issues to the fore, for which I, and hopefully others in future, gain by. All thanks to you and everyone who who has dug so deep on all of these issues. 😃

No, I didn't select within Layers. It seemed easy to select and edit without that. Why do you ask, Lee? Is there an advantage? And thanks Mike for logging this issue with the developers.

Thanks Mike. I ended up just restyling the tables, a real flog. But I'll remember to add the styles to same text on a temp basis in future, unless Publisher fixes that by then.

Yes, that was a right royal pig not being able to search to the bottom! I'm going to really use Libre Office in future, so thanks for the great tip. For now your work on the document saved the day and I've now gone and published.

Hi all you terrific people who've been helping out with this, and apologies for being so quiet and not responding. I've been hammering away and sent off a page proof just now. so I'll be aboard again after a bit of a rest – it was a huge job with over 40 tables and 20 charts, and fixing styles of course. More soon, and thanks meanwhile!

Yes, we are in different worlds really. I'd do the same as you if graphics were a big part of what I do. I started with Pagemaker, and a bit of Freehand!

Lacerto, I'm gobsmacked!!! How can I ever thank you enough?? The other paras are a relatively easy fix. I'll sleep better tonight. I'd been trying the Pages route, but that also had problems. At least it now does footnotes, but no indexing (powerful in AfPub!). It seems like there is no import option, only Open, so that gives page layout problems, and using Convert to Page Layout just erases all text. Anyhow another story, but has it uses for sure, so thanks for reawaking me up to it as well.

Looks great what you've done! Thanks. Something wrong with the Word sample for sure. I'll try to replicate, but will be away for a couple of hours or so.

The original text had all accepted and was fine. the sample is crashing Word even after a restart, app and machine. I've now dropped the original into Publisher and cut 100+ pages to make a sample, so that's attached. Sample 2 BOCRA Pages.afpub

Well, as I learnt, as a book publisher, produce any number of galley proofs before dropping into pages. I've never had problems like I'm encountering now.

Nope, nothing like that in Word version. I also deleted unused styles, but Word keeps a great lot anyhow. It looks to me like Word on Windows has more control than on the Mac. looking at what lacerto just posted.

Thanks Mike. I note you have used List Paragraph rather than Heading 1, 2 etc. And your sample is fine. I duplicated what you did and can even add first level. But in List Styles (screenshot) under numbering 'No list' is selected. But when I try to replicate that I have to select 1/1.1/1.11. Mighty mysterious. I attach my sample, the Word version and the AfPub version. Even though all changes are accepted in Word's Review, and in Tacking, no markup and nothing is selected in the options, AfPub seems to import a lot of chaos after the bottom of page 14, and also adds deleted pages in the prelims. NOne of that happens if I import the full document. Any way forward? BOCRA sample for forum.afpub Sample UNDERSTANDING COMMS FINAL GALLEY PROOF.docx