Old Bruce

If it isn't a utility as suggested by MikeTO then I must ask which Mac OS are you running? Perhaps there is OS level interference. Some sort of enhancement by Apple as to how the cursor is displayed. Finally there is always Roy's advice (from The IT Crowd) "Have you tried turning it off and on again. I know that over the decades my Macs have shown various weird behaviours after several days of uptime. A simple restart of the computer will usually clear them up.

I think what you are doing is Previewing the result. Now try and Generate the document. You should see the expected result. Preview only uses the first, or chosen 'record' to preview it.

There is a setting in the Context toolbar, should be the last one on the right. It is called Keep Selected.

Make a text frame and choose the [No Style] Paragraph Style. Write something, set it up like you want. With the text caret still in the text (which is [No Style] go to Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection and then imediately go to Edit > Defaults > Save. Now your default [No Style] will look like that for all new text. Or you can just take care to always select the desired Paragraph Style before typing. Also you should maybe go to the Text Styles panel and choose Save Styles as Default from the little three line menu indicator.

11 on 12 or 12 on 13 or 14. I also use First line indents instead of an actual Tab for the start of a paragraph and I tend to use no space between paragraphs for the bulk of the text. Unlike this setup for the forums where there is no first line indent and a line space between paragraphs. Again this is just how I work, choose your own look.

Please do not use the "leading override" to increase the distance. Text Styles, in particular Paragraph Styles will be your friends. Choose your Font, choose the size, set the leading to be between 10 -20% of the size*. I use exact for the leading, not % or "default" or At Least or Multiple. It is just how I work, I am old school and a bit of a control freak. Use what you want. Do not use Overrides to fix things, redefine the paragraph style. Overrides should be used rarely if at all**. This really depends on the amount of text, a few paragraphs totalling a couple of hundred words, sure use Publisher. A dozen pages with a few thousand words, use a Text Editor or Word Processor. * Not a rule you have to follow, you will not be set to prison if you don't follow this. ** A rule you should try and follow.

If you are using the <section name> field to fill in Part One, Part Two, etc or Chapter Names then you may be better served using <Running Header> fields. Choose the Paragraph Style which has been applied to the Part Names or Chapter Names. Then when you alter the number of pages the <Running Header> won't care or even notice.

Welcome to the forums @Stuart Frisken, This "box" is the container for the text. It is how Designer, Photo and Publisher work. There are two types of text frames. The first is called the Art Text text frame and it will be the size of the text you type, no larger, no smaller than the text you type. The second is a Frame Text text frame, it can be whatever size you want it and will hold several paragraphs worth of text. Depending of course on the size of the font you have chosen.

Once you have your selected items hit Edit > Copy. Now Edit > Select All and hit the delete button. Now Edit > Paste. Should work.

You could try using the Character in the other off the page text frame like so; I do agree that the extra End of Story glyph is annoying. And I cannot for the life of me figure out why the two End of Story characters are resulting in an extra line.

I am assuming you are using a Black and White Adjustment Layer. The only way I can get a sepia tone is by having the Document in CMYK and the Blend mode for the Adjustment Layer set to Colour instead of Normal.

There does seem to be a problem with Publisher 2 beta 2.5.0 not clearing the unsaved documents from the autosave. Like MikeTo I cannot definitely point to a recipe. But I see it happening a lot. I don't see this with Designer or Photo.

There are some things like Adjustment Layers and Filters which can be recorded in a Macro then applied all at once to files.

Welcome to the forums @Lee8181 You are most likely in the Develop Persona. You may have opened up a raw file and so Affinity Photo 2 (if that is the actual application you are using) is automatically using the Develop Persona for raw files. Hit the Develop button and you'll be in the Photo Persona with many more tools available.

Wild stab in the dark here... Are you perhaps using Photo 2 (or even version 1)? I don't see it in the list, just Publisher 2 and Designer 2.