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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.

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

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.

If I am going to have to recreate all my legacy documents I will certainly not be moving on to Affinity.  Sorry.  An import program should be an essential element of the new design if you want your existing customers to upgrade.
Saving as pdf from x9 and importing chops up text into small portions and imports some as a non editable picture, especially for complex documents.

If I am going to have to recreate all my legacy documents I will certainly not be moving on to Affinity.  Sorry.  An import program should be an essential element of the new design if you want your existing customers to upgrade.
Saving as pdf from x9 and importing chops up text into small portions and imports some as a non editable picture, especially for complex documents.