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You are able to do it now but not directly. Download LibreOffice and open your Microsoft Document from within LibreOffice. Copy it and paste into Publisher. This procedure copies majority of the styles and you may find that you need to do very little to correct the remaining issues. Of course your mileage may vary but I think it's a very good way to preserve your work done in Microsoft Word. By the way this was also pointed out by Dominic in an earlier post.

The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is that this may change in the future. Affinity Publisher is still in early Beta program.

I love what you have doe with Tables Styles. Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out what all these controls are all for. I'm not sure I'm done yet. One thing that came to my mind while exploring was whether it were be possible to separate strokes from the fills like what you'e done with the Decorators Paragraph Styles. Also, whether we could have a style for each separate cell. At the moment as far as I understand rows / columns work as one. To be able to address each cell separately would be amazing. The downside of all this would be exponential difficulty for the user to grasp what's going on. A good tutorial for Table Styles is in order.

Having played a bit more with the Paragraph Tabs option I think there is a bug there. Say, you defined 3 tabs and all of them aligning from right. Once defined I am unable to change the number field afterwards, or if if I type another number it give me some other number and not the one I typed. I'm testing the Macosx version.

I forgot to mention that I really like the way the tabs are implemented now especially the option from right which will be useful in its own right.

I understand the rationale but think about situations where you have 3 left tabs and 1 right tab. You will need to tab 4 times to get to the right tab. With the Right tab as a white char. you only need to shift tab or whatever to get there. It's much cleaner in my view.

It wold be great if Publisher added Right Tab to the white space characters. I have a few more white space characters at the back of my mind that I would like to see added to Publisher but don't want to obfuscate waters at the moment. I use the right tab very often in church documents when some responses need to be right aligned and then bolded. Right tab is especially useful as a sentinel character for Grep Character Styles when defining Paragraph Styles (e.g. Indesign) which I'm hoping will be implemented in Publisher too. Think also of Prices, ISBN numbers, etc. that you might want to apply automatically different characters styles to.

The dev. team has kind of answered that question already some time ago on the Designer thread. It will most probably be JavaScript just because it's cross platform. While certainly not a commitment it's an indication of intent.

Tough call this but I tend to agree more with Dave. Spacing is more generally a paragraph wide issue and Bullets, Numbering fall under that.

Did you select the document you want to import the styles from first? This will then give you the panel Dave is talking about.

OK. I think I know what's going wrong for you. 1. Create 2 pages 2. Create a text frame on each page. 3. Link the frames 4. Add text and insert a page break. Please let me know whether this time it worked for you.

It works for me as expected, although I had more than one page in my document. Try to create a new page first and see whether the Page Break works for you.

Preferably alive and kicking.

Is this a bug or just me being clumsy but I am unable to select text across the pages. It seems that the cursor looses its position on the page. Basically it completely disappears if you move to another page and then come back to it again with the text tool still being the selected tool. Say, you select a paragraph on a given page then go forward to the next page and then come back to it again the selection disappears. There is no way to extend the selection to the next page either.

The guides manager is up for a major redesign. We were informed about that by the dev team some time ago on the Affinity Designer forum. So rest assured this will not stay like that for long.

I think Decorations describe exactly what this is. I wouldn't change it, unless a more apt term was found.

Ups, there is a small glitch there. All works great, but when you return to the Paragraph Style->Decorations later the drop down list will only allow you to select the first decoration. That's on MacOSX at least.

Fantabulous.

I agree wholeheartedly with MikeW posts here. Master pages in Affinity Publisher is an area where Serif folks need to have another look. I"m sure they want the best product out there so I'm confident that that will actually happen. And yes, this is the first Beta.

I love what the Affinity Publisher has done with Decorations Paragraph Attribute. I didn't expect this to be in the initial beta release. Experimenting with this a little I realised that the fill attribute is somehow coupled to the stroke attributes. If I change the position of the stroke the fill moves with it. I would suggest to decouple the fill from the stroke so that the stroke lines can be moved without affecting the dimensions of the fill. If that were possible there are enormous design possibilities there. Imagine you have a dark fill with a light stroke inside the fill or 2 horizontal lines at the top or below the text but inside the fill. Combine the stroke attributes with the pressure attributes, the mind boggles with possibilities.

Not really. I assume you worked very little in publishing before. What we need is proper Object Styles so that you can specify such things like: 1. X, Y Dimension. 2. Position on the page. 3. Fill and Stroke options. 4. Wrapping options. Yes, they belong here and not in the Paragraph Styles. 5. Paragraph styles associated with a given box (in case of text boxes) 6. Autosize options 7. Anchored object etc What we have at the moment is very basic.

A big + 1.

Huge +1 for that feature. I have already requested this myself in this forum.

To be a spoil-sport here the more importing options in Publisher the better.

Apologies if this was started already as a suggestion. I think that Export Persona should be very useful in Publisher. Imagine trying to negotiate various PDF export options. Being able to PDF only certain pages or exporting pages in other formats would really be great. I know that we have Export command but Export Persona would act as some sort of Presets for a variety of exporting options. This should be a low-hanging fruit for the dev. team as most of the functionality already exists in Export Persona in Designer and Photo.