Seneca

Exactly. I don't want to scout for footnotes somewhere else in the book, particularly, where there are many of them.
Obviously, with a very few notes in the document placing them at the back of the chapter or at the end the book is acceptable and oftentimes desirable.
And I agree with Peter. We need greater flexibility than in indesign.

Yes, sorry, you are right.
Then try to find and replace feature.
Text > Find ...
You can search for any formatting, including font, paragraph styles, character styles and see whether that works for you, but it should.

Of course the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to have styles.
You define styles for your document and then simply update your styles with the fonts you need.

Sorry A_B_C,
You completely lost me. You mean you want to apply Paragraph Styles to a blank document?

Couldn't agree more.

Ive been editing Liturgical Texts for as long as I remember and one issues that has not be solved adequately (that I know of) is sense lines.
Let me explain what I mean. Liturgical texts are usually paragraphs that have been split into independent lines for better legibility. One can also think of poetry here, which liturgical texts are really part of.
Example follows:

 
When this text needs to go into 2 columns it needs to look like this:

As you can see longer lines need to wrap underneath the top lines to emphasise the fact that this is just a continuation of the previous line. This is what's called sense line.
However, it seems to me that it's really wrong to divide this text into separate paragraphs by inserting paragraph returns after each line. This text is really one paragraph that was divided into lines for better legibility. In fact, there is no full stop after each line. What you get is a comma and the next lines starts with a small letter. This is horrible when one spell-checks this text because each line gets flagged as error. (In some cases/programs can instruct spell-checker to ignore that).
What should be really possible is to have each line separated by a soft returns to emphasise the fact that all these lines are part of one paragraph. And indeed this is possible today:

Problem arises when one wants to fit this text into 2 columns:

As is clearly seen from he picture above the sense lines have been lost. There is no way of representing these lines as sense lines when soft returns are used as end of lines.
Indeed, one can say that this is precicely how soft returns should work.
What I would love to see though is to have an option to instruct Publisher to treat soft returns as paragraph returns.
What should be possible is to have this:

To me this picture communicates very clearly that we are dealing with paragraphs and that these paragraph still obey sense line rules.
I wonder how other members of this community have been dealing with this and whether it's worthwhile for the Affinity Team to take this on. Or is this just an edge case that's not worth the bother.
I would love to have  Treat soft returns as paragraph returns tick mark option when defining styles in Publisher to remedy this.
That would really be awesome and would solve one of the few outstanding issues in publishing I've had for years. 

That's something that was at the back of my mind too. I think I saw a post about that on the Designer forum when discussing future Publisher a long time ago.
This would really be great and would solve the problem you've raised gracefully.
Big +1 from me.

Thanks MEB,
It might be helpful to also add this option to layers created automatically by Publisher like when adding a text box, etc, and change the colour later.
It seems to me that this is the way layers are added to Publisher most naturally.
 

I hear you brov. 

Similar functionality exists in inDesign and QuarkXpress, so, obviously, one would hope that this persona (which by the way is a great way to deal with that) will eventually show up in Publishers as well.

And someone else will have 3 other features without which there will be little point considering Publisher, and someone else will have yet 3 other points, etc.
I know what you are saying but be realistic. All come in due course.
What so nice to see, though, is that people really want Publisher to succeed and this is great to see.
And succeed it will.  

Big companies are the last to adopt anything new. It always starts from smaller businesses.
Remember Quark? Unassailable king of the publishing industry? And who's laughing now.
There is every chance for Publisher to succeed in this business now more than ever before because there is a need for something new.

I love the way the Styles and the Style Decorations are shaping up.
A couple of suggestions:
1. When applying Paragraph Decoration to a heading, for example, that is at the top of the text frame the decoration may go above the text frame.
It would be great to have "Keep within the Text Frame" option to push this down a bit to align properly to the top of the text frame. (inDesign)
2. When deleting a text style it would be great to be able to have an option to apply another style to the affected paras before the style is deleted. (inDesign)

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.

As suggestion you once you complete January save the style of this table.
Then you can apply this style to subsequent months. Of course you could also copy and paste the first table and change the details there.
Great work.

As suggestion you once you complete January save the style of this table.
Then you can apply this style to subsequent months. Of course you could also copy and paste the first table and change the details there.
Great work.

As suggestion you once you complete January save the style of this table.
Then you can apply this style to subsequent months. Of course you could also copy and paste the first table and change the details there.
Great work.

You don't have to use Microsoft Word.
There are free alternatives to it and just as good: LibreOffice, OpenOffice and many more.
In fact, affinity can read paragraph and character styles form one of these programs. So that's an extra bonus.
I don't think Affinity will ever want to go in that direction. But hey, who knows.

You don't have to use Microsoft Word.
There are free alternatives to it and just as good: LibreOffice, OpenOffice and many more.
In fact, affinity can read paragraph and character styles form one of these programs. So that's an extra bonus.
I don't think Affinity will ever want to go in that direction. But hey, who knows.

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.

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.

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. 

Then that is a Mac-only issue as being able to select subsequent decorations works on Windows.
Oddities of operation...don't ya love 'em!

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 disagree. It is precisely at this stage to provide negative feedback. I've also given positive feedback and was about to do so in another thread.
Import even just 100 pages of just text (which is slightly convoluted in itself). Do the same in ID and/or QXP.
APub has the same performance issues as QXP (which also has a too soft of image preview due entirely to high zooming/rendering capabilities) can have that ID does not. I have no difficulty in selecting pages from a PDF to import in either QXP or ID. Being able to do so isn't unique in APub.