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With APub 2.5.5, you can replace one paragraph format with the other using ‘Find and Replace’, as you are used to with Indesign. In Indesign, the bold, italic or similar markup is retained. With APub, this only works if you do this individually - in my case for the footnotes - (i.e. replace the paragraph format of the respective footnote with the desired one) AND click on ‘[...] apply local formatting’. This does not work with the general ‘Search and replace’, as this option is missing there. Or am I missing something? How should I proceed in order not to provide 350 footnotes individually with a new paragraph format? Thanks as always. --------------------------- German version: Beim APub 2.5.5 lässt sich ja - wie von Indesign gewohnt - mittels "Suchen und Ersetzen" das eine Absatzformat durch das andere ersetzen. Bei Indesign werden die Auszeichnungen fett, kursiv o.ä. dabei beibehalten. Bei APub funktioniert das nur, wenn man - in meinem Fall bei den Fußnoten - das einzeln macht (also das Absatzformat der jeweiligen Fußnote durch das gewünschte andere ersetzt) UND "[…] lokale Formatierung übernehmen" anklickt. Beim generellen "Suchen und Ersetzen" funktioniert das nicht, da hier diese Option fehlt. Oder übersehe ich etwas? Wie müsste ich vorgehen, um nicht 350 Fußnoten einzeln mit einem neuen Absatzformat zu versehen? Vielen Dank schon mal wie immer.

I am still occupied with my 1.300 footnote text. I received today a new version form the author - as usual a WordPerfect X3-File ... I managed to save that file as a MS Word 97/2000/20023/2003-file (*.doc) and imported it via Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V in APub which worked fine (even with 1.300 footnotes). Now I am able to assign alle the different text styles. But one strange issue occured which you can see below: Page 2 ist empty ... In Indesign there would be a small glyph for the beginning of a new page at the end of the old one: ˇ If I delete that small glyph the text on the new page will immediately appear under the last line of the old page's text. Neither in the WordPerfect-file nor in the Word-file is anything to find at the end of page 1. I can't find anything similar in APub at the end of page 1. So what should I do to get rid of the empty page 2? Thanks in advance.

Thanks to you all! Much appreciated.

Thanks, MikeTO. At the moment the author and me will go with the following solution: Copy and paste the WordPerfect file into Affinity Publisher. Make a proper layout. Make a pdf-file. Send the file to the author. Then the author will make the same page breaks in WordPerfect as in the pdf-file, update the cross references, make a pdf-file from the WordPerfect file and send me the pdf-file with the updated cross references. Afterwards I have to insert the new cross references manually in the Affinity Publisher file. [sigh] But they are correct then.

A file with a theological subject has been written in WordPerfect X3 (readable by me with WordPerfect X5). It has 300 pages and 1.200 footnotes with cross references. I can simply import the file into APub with copy and paste; even the Hebrew and Greek letters are there. But all the cross references are vanished ... Is there a way to import the file with the cross references which should be able to update themselves afterwards? Thanks in advance.

I really would be glad to receive a helpful answer! Have a nice day.

To create a character style named "italic" worked fine. Unfortunately I am not able to do the same with "bold". "Character style" is greyed out. I attach a screenshot and hope for an answer. Thanks again.

Having been ill I forgot to thank you, walt.farrell and Old Bruce. I'll try now what you proposed. Thanks!

Indeed, a much appreciated addition ... Thank you very much.

Is there a way to correct footnotes (spelling errors, spaces etc.) similar to Indesign i.e. after having worked with footnote 1 move automatically to footnote 2, then 3 etc.? I can do that with APub only with clicking into the next footnote ... Thanks in advance.

Thanks, dear Dan C. That seems very simple but as I said several times to my fellow layouters APub is a very sophisticated, complex program. And if someone (like me) has worked for more than 20 years with Indesign one has to learn that there are often simpler solutions in APub - but not at first sight. I'll try it tomorrow. Tonight I have to recover from the outcome of Spain vs. Germany. But I think I still have enough Whisky at hand.

What I was trying to achieve is very simple with Indesign: Just handle the tiny blue square at the lower photo border in the middle and push it upwards (see below the two screenshots I attached). The size of the photo ist not proportional reduced. Every time I try the same thing with APub it's not working.

Unfortunately it seems not possible for me to change the picture frame size unproportional: I just wanted to reduce the width so the thin vertical black line from the death notice in the screenshot below would disappear. That was never a problem in Indesign - just catching a vertical or horizontal frame line and push it in the desired direction. Any ideas? Sometimes the solution is very simple but sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees ...

Wonderful, thank you very much again! I'll try after having finished the recent task.

Great, stokerg, that helped. APub is a wonderful programm! Next task is the layout for a 1.800 pages linguistics book AND 560 illustrations/figures. Seeing your town (Nottingham, where I've been in 1999) and your profession ("Staff") I wonder if you have any experiences with these large file sizes. Or would you recommend to have a single file for every of the eight chapters of the linguistics book? Thanks again!