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I am exactly in the case of Adriandw.
I just tried v180 beta, and opened some idml I had created under ID. It works rather well, but I was very disappointed to see that spanned columns (in ID) are not yet spanned (in APub), even in v1.8.
I am afraid to have to wait v2 and then to pay v2 to have that feature absolutely essential for any professional publisher, even for non-profits organisations.
So, please, add span column feature in v 1.x

I produce publications for three non-profits - I’m using a copy of InDesign which I purchased as a component of CS6 several years ago - neither I nor the non-profits could justify the monthly charges for the latest InDesign. I’d love to switch them all to Affinity Publisher but without Span Columns (and cross-references for longer documents) it wouldn't be a complete solution and therefore I’ll hold off persuading them to adopt it (although I have purchased my own copy).

Yes, count me also as requester for that feature : span title or any paragraph from 2 to all columns of the text frame.

Hello all, I am unable to create a master page containing a multi-column text frame (or even a single coulmn one). What do I do wrong ?

To the Affinity range !! Good news : so AP, AD and APub will support scripting. I'm hurry to see that.

Yes, count me also as requester for that feature : span title or any paragraph from 2 to all columns of the text frame.

Shift + double-click on the text frame link symbol will make new frames of the same dimensions as the current one on subsequent and new pages until the oveflowing story fits in the frames created. Alt_ double-click adds one frame of the same dimension on a subsequent (new) page and flows the story into it. 
Getting the long story into the frame in the first place (.doc import) is not available yet.