Ryan Clarke

Thanks for all your help. After much investigation I found that the problem was the title page on each chapter. No idea why. Once it was deleted the text exported and imported okay. I have no idea why the chapter heading style affected the whole document in that way and caused it to add special characters that came out as dots. They weren't bullet points as the imported styles showed no bullet points. The same dots even showed up in when cut and pasted into a rich text file but weren't bullet points. The curse of using new software. Weird stuff happens on the first few days that never seems to happen again. So now I can start to tackle the footnotes problem, so thanks for all your input on that.

Yes, sorry I did mean Publisher in my original post title. Sorry, not sure how to edit it. I did specify v1.10.6 and not 2. I have tried to use 2 on my wife's laptop and it keeps crashing so not really keen to upgrade if it won't fix the problem. I am also using Pages 13 and I am saving docx. Pages will not allow you to save under any other format for Word except docx. I am also using the PLACE function to enter the document. When I open it in Affinity every single paragraph has a small dot next to it and it cannot even preserve a simple bold font in the text styles. This is what Iam seeing every time: I have tried loading the same document into Affinity 2 on my wife's laptop. Exact same dots all over the place. Most styles are not properly preserved. I don't understand why I'm getting these weird formatting issues on two different laptops with two different versions of Affinity. I have tried repeatedly saving different documents in Pages to docx. Get the same issues every time.

As I said in my original posting exporting from Pages to Word (docx) does not work. It makes a mess of the format and does not even acknowledge the footnotes. I've even tried using Libre Office, but no dice. Once again Affinity seems to think there is only one word processor and that is Word. If I had known that Affinity Publisher only works with Microsoft word and no other word processor I would never have purchased it. There simply is no way of importing Mac Pages into Affinity Publisher and that seems to be a massive oversight.

I have spent the past few years working on a document in Mac Pages that is 100,000 words long and needs to be prepared for publication. Only now do I discover that Affinity 1.10.6 will not import Mac Pages documents. I exported out of Pages as a docx but it is a terrible mess on import to Affinity. The mess that Mac Pages makes of it's awful export fearure is compounded by the mess that Affinity adds during import. Thankfully, exporting out of Mac Pages as a rich text file preserves all of my formatting inside Affinity. But none of my styles. So I have to build the styles again. This wouldn't be so much of a problem but I have footnotes as well that should appear under each page. The Affinity import keeps all of the footnotes but combines them together on a separate last page. So is there any way of importing Mac Pages documents into Affinity, even if I have to use a different convertor, so it preserves my styles? And more importantly, is there any way of preserving my footnotes so they are added at the bottom of each page?