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Hi, Yes, all working as expected now. The issue seems to be the fact that the whole sheet was formatted with alternating green rows. As this covered the whole sheet, Publisher saw the sheet as having a huge number of records and the memory on my PC could not cope with the update procedure in Publisher. In the end I copied the data (not the formatting) into a new sheet in the excel file and linked that sheet to Publisher and everything then worked OK. Sorry to have troubled you with this issue, but it may come in useful if someone else has the same problem. Thanks Richard

Hi, I think the issue is with the .xlsx file. I have applied a format to the sheet which then makes it very large and cumbersome to manipulate. I think that when I have reduced the area formatted, or removed the format altogether then issue may be resolved. I will let you know. Richard

Hello, I have updated the records in an Excel .xlsx file and the problem occurs when I use the update function in the Data Merge Manager in Publisher V2. Publisher hangs for a while and then when it is available again the records have not updated and the record view in the Data Merge Manager is blank for the updated records. The remainder of the records are unchanged and appear as before. I have also noticed that when I save or open the document that the merge list is attached to, Publisher shows 'not responding' for a while. It does respond eventually. I have tried unlinking the data file and relinking it again, but that has not solved the problem. Richard

I am having issues with Data Merge for a mail merge document in Publisher V2. When trying to update the records, Publisher V2 hangs for a long period ( 3 to 4 minutes) and the updated records are blank when previewing the records after the update. The document was originally designed in Publisher 1, but as I have now opened it in V2 I can no longer open it in V1.

How do I access the print profiles I created in Publisher 1 when printing from Publisher 2? They do not appear in the print dialogue, but there is an option to browse. Can I use this to locate my Publisher 1 profiles and if so where are they stored on Windows 10? Richard

Various people have come up with workarounds for certain situations. I have tried most of them but none have worked for me. So you have understood correctly - unfortunately. I wonder why it is taking so long for this fairly basic functionality to be added to publisher. Richard

I have tried both the work arounds above (text box and temporary table) and in both cases Publisher crashes when I try to copy the data into a table. The data I am using is from an Excel spreadsheet.

Is there an easy way to move text or picture frames between pages of the same document? You can, of course, copy and paste, but with Publisher you could drag a frame onto the 'pages' side panel to move it or put it on the background outside the page boundaries which was then visible with each page. I have tried both these and they do not appear to work in Affinity. Possible functionality to add??

Hi, I do understand that Publisher is still under development, and much of the new functionality is very welcome. My disappointment is that there was so much functionality in PagePlus that was there because users deemed it to be of high priority at the time, and it was this functionality that made PagePlus the best programme of its type out there. I know that PagePlus is still able to be used, but I am surprised that those things that made it stand out don't have a higher priority in the development of Publisher. I only hope that they do find their way into the programme at some point and don't just get lost. Richard

It is such a shame that Serif spent so many years improving and adding functionality to Publisher and are not developing some of the most useful functionality for their new offering. Much as I like some of the new things that Affinity can do, I really do miss the basic things that it cannot do.

My apologies. Word processor was not the correct terminology. What I would expect is to be able to edit text and tables within the application. At present the lack of table functionality means that they often need to be created in another application and then imported as a picture. With the integration of the other Affinity apps so that they can now be called from each other, it seems out of line with the implied aim of making this a complete package, to have to go to other apps for the more basic text/table functions. I would hope (in time) that I can go to AP and prepare all my content: text, images, tables, photos, in one package. I would hope, also in time, that this could include mail merge so that I can include variable fields tailored for each recipient. I wait to see.

In my opinion, the lack of functionality within tables is the biggest drawback to moving over to use AP rather than PP. It is all very well introducing fancy graphic tools, but this is a really a word processor and should have all the tools for handling text and tables as well as useful add-ons for mail merge etc.

I am having a lot of problems working with tables. 1) The cell borders do not show if frame stroke is set to none so it is difficult to see where you are in the table. It should be possible to show the cell outline without setting a frame stroke. 2) Sometimes when drag the column border to set the width manually, it goes to zero width and the programme crashes. 3) Copy and paste to multiple cells does not work. If I copy the contents of one cell and then select a number of cells and paste, the contents are only copied into the first selected cell. 4) There appears to be no way to 'autofill' cells. 5) The are no basic mathematical functions available. Please can someone spend a bit of time sorting tables out and adding a bit more basic functionality!!

Thank you for that, I thought I might be missing something obvious. I will wait to see if it appears - at lest it is mentioned so hopefully it will get there. Unlike the use of formulae within tables, which is not mentioned at all ! Richard

I have found in the help that there should be a Fill Cells option and a Quickfill option in tables, but I can't see them.