MK Eidson

Thanks for the head's up on that bug. Maybe I should be able to compile a Word document from Scrivener that could be placed directly into Publisher without having to make any style changes (assuming no bugs in any of the software used), but if so, I'm not there yet. I don't mind having to do the three-step process I described earlier to update my document's paragraph styles once I've placed the text in Publisher. I feel good to have Scrivener set up to compile Word documents usable with minimal changes in Kindle Create to produce e-books. There are so many different tools I use for my varied creative projects (Affinity Photo and Publisher being two major ones), if a process works and doesn't take an exorbitant amount of time to execute, I'm happy. If the OP is in similar straits, the same process I use might be helpful in their situation.

When placing formatted text in Affinity Publisher from a Word document that didn't use Character Styles for italics and bold, I've found that applying a style and preserving local formatting won't update the paragraph indent, among other things. If one wants such properties to also be updated without losing italics and bold formatting, one can reapply the style and preserve character formatting. In my case, my text originates in Scrivener. I compile to create a Word document, which I use in Kindle Create to create my e-book. For the print book, I place the Word document in an Affinity Publisher document. In Scrivener, I've never messed with Character Styles, and have never investigated whether that's something Scrivener even supports. After I place the text from the compiled Word document into Affinity Publisher, I update the paragraph style with a three-step process: 1) Select consecutive paragraphs that need the new style applied, 2) apply the new style, preserving local formatting, 3) apply the new style again, preserving character formatting. The order here matters. I end up with updated paragraphs that have the desired style but with my original italics and bold passages preserved.