h_d

In the Paragraph panel (or contextual menu bar) set the justification to Justified All:

Hi @h_d,
Thanks for the files   
I've updated the log with a copy of the file that places  
I suspect it will be related to formatting on the table that we don't support in Publisher, but i could be wrong.
 

Hi @stokerg
I've attached the .xlsx file I could place and the .afpub document I placed it into, but I should point out that I used Apple Numbers to do the unmerging and then exported as .xlsx, as I don't have Excel itself. I don't think it should make any difference.
Cells A2 and B2 (second row, first two cells) need to be unmerged as well as all the cells in the first row.
Cheers,
H
Student Enrollment By Ethnicity Fall 2011.xlsx student table.afpub

It turns out that you don't need the Hunspell files at all on your Mac!
On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > and set Spelling to "Auto by Language". Then the spelling check just works fine in Affinity!
For me the setting was of course "Nederlands" (Dutch), that's why it didn't work.
Strange really ..?

Affined : to refine and enhance with Affinity software

Whiteout here on the Left Coast of Canada, and I do get tired of throwing out monitors every couple of months.

Not a problem at all.   I appreciate the time and effort. Thanks!

Apologies, yes I do.

I've edited my original post.

Apologies, yes I do.

I've edited my original post.

Alternatively, run Geometry - Smooth Curves click the Node tool and then click Smooth Curve in the context menu bar on both the 'flower' and the 'cloud', then the subtraction operation will work correctly. Presumably this also rectifies the fill issues identified by @anon2
EDIT: Please disregard my answer - posted in error. H
 

Yes, it worked!  Thanks @Pšenda, you just saved me a boatload of time and headache!!  @h_dI'm sure you're tips will come in handy as well as I move through this project!  
 

Hi @Serif,
abbreviated versions of panel names should be included in the help. If the user does not know the meaning of the confusion "X" with "trans" (for example Xmit as transmit), then the abbreviation Xfm will not tell him anything.

If you're having to press backspace to close up the gaps, the chances are that there are extra return characters between the paragraphs. To check this, pull down the Text menu and choose Show Special Characters:

This will display paragraph breaks as a sort of reversed P::

One at the end of each paragraph, one in between.
To remove them quickly, do a Find and Replace (Cmd-F on Mac, probably Ctrl-F on PC).
In the Find box, click the magnifying glass and choose Special Characters - Paragraph Break:
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Do this once again in the Find box, and just once in the Replace box, then double-click in the Find box to show results::

Then click Replace All:

This has removed my double paragraph breaks, but I still have space between the paragraphs because my text styles are set up that way. If you need to remove more space, or the above doesn't work, post back.
Cheers,
H

Or if you are sold on a Boolean subtract, select all the stars, choose Layer-Geometry-Merge Curves (to create a single curve comprising all the stars), then select the blue rectangle as well and then try subtracting:

Screen Recording 2020-10-30 at 20.02.36.mov Cheers,
H

Unless you have a particular reason to use Boolean subtraction, an alternative might be to group the stars and clip them to the rectangle:

Screen Recording 2020-10-30 at 19.47.38.mov Cheers,
H

Re the numbering thing... I think I've figured this out. It appears to be because the working index window is showing  the global document page numbers and not taking into account any section numbering. I have 16 pages of introductory stuff using Roman numerals as per standard book formatting, with the 'proper' numbering starting at 1 on the 17th page.
The numbers in the populated index do accurately reflect the page numbers as in the text.

Thanks H, having slept on it, I realised that was the problem. When I populated the index pages, I hadn't specified index entry text, so the font size was huge and I changed it to body text - which of course mucked up the formatting. Having re-done the index after editing the 'index' text styles, the entries indent properly.
 
Many thanks for the help.
G

HI @h_d,
Thanks for your answer, your solutions works pretty perfect.
 

Make sure you have a transparent background:

Then use the Flood Select tool. Click in each bus window to create a selection, then press delete/backspace:

Cheers,
H

Red, blue and yellow, as in @Renaki_022's example, are primary colours in terms of pigments and painting on paper, but not on computer screens.
On computer and TV screens, based on the light receptors in the human eye,  the primary colours (aka additive primaries) are red, blue and green, as in @GarryP's example.
(The subtractive primaries cyan, magenta and yellow are used for colour printing - along with black.)
Colour theory is a huge subject, but basically mixing colours on a computer screen doesn't work in the same way as it does on paper, and the only way to achieve the 'on paper' colour wheel in the OP's request is most likely going to be to create a complex shape with a separate fill for each segment. (Try mixing yellow and blue on screen to achieve green, for example, using any blend mode.)

You can import styles from an existing document via the 'hamburger' menu in the Text Styles panel:
 

Works here on a macbook trackpad...

rotate artboard.m4v  

There's a risk that anything you've created and/or saved using the 1.9 beta won't be openable using 1.8.4.

@RichW
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  
It would clearly suit your particular needs better, but it is not something that needs "correcting" as it is not something that we claim to do, sorry.
Whenever one makes a decision about using software you have inadvertently decided to be dependent upon them and their infrastructure. In the same way everyone who chose videos does not demand that all DVD manufacturers provide a VHS drive too. If that's what you need then ours may not be the tool you need for that purpose.

Many thanks for the tip on saving.  That has worked and I'm jumping around the room in happiness.  Just need the other bit.  Very happy.