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Thanks Mike, Clearly I have created this particular copy of the image within the master . I am not too sure how I did it but at least I now have an explanation , and a way to fix it. I am not too sure why I would ever want to edit the master while in the document page. I would always revert back to the master itself and edit there. I will have a good read of your manual. Thanks again gerard

Thanks Mike for your reply. And for your manual which I have downloaded. I have attached the file, which has had some text deleted for privacy reasons. The master is applied to the page and then the additional images are added to the page, not to the master, unless I am doing something wrong. The offending 'image' is on page 2 on the row marked 29. It is the direction sign. You will see the same or similar signs on row 28 (and on other rows), on the same page. I can select the 'image' on other rows but not the image on row 29. When I select it on the layers panel I cannot delete it or change its visibility. I appreciate that I am perhaps using a sledgehammer to crack a nut but my workflow is to place all the 'unchanging' aspects of the page on the master and only add images and text each year as needed. I produce this file each year for a local club and have no other use for it. Perhaps using a master page is the wrong approach here Thanks for taking the time to look Gerard forForum_Draft3.afpub

I have a fairly simple file with three master pages and 2 pages. I reuse the masters each year to create a new file which is output as a pdf . The original document was created in Publisher V1. The masters consists of text frames and tables. The document pages contain either Affinity designer files or svg images (created in designer) and text overlaid on the frames and tables. This has all worked okay in Publisher V1. But now i am having problems When I place images onto the page , sometimes they are not selectable. So I can neither move them nor delete them. I can find them in the layer panel but again , I cannot delete them or turn off their visibility. I appreciate that I could probably start again but I prefer to reuse the master from previous years as it reduces considerably the amount of work. I haven't tried going back to V1 or Publisher. Am I placing these files incorrectly? Is my problem likely to be caused by using a draft file created in V1 of Publisher and then modifying it to create the new file using Publisher V2? Thanks for reading

Thanks Dan, That was the problem. I need to copy and paste data from a Spreadsheet 9 I am using LibreOffice but the same problem when I used Excel). I found that I needed to format the cell contents ( they were all numeric) in the Spreadsheet before pasting into Publisher file , i.e. set italic, bold, centre in the cell vertically and align to the right. Appreciate your time as it got me out of a big problem. Gerard

I have a master page with a number of tables. I now find that I cannot select the table for formatting. I select and it appears to outline the table but the table formatting is blank and will not work. Am i selecting the table wrongly ( with the select arrow). If i click on the table tool it tries to recreate another table over the table already there. The file is attached Thanks for any help or pointers Route2022_Drt1.afpub

I would be interested in this too. And will it have affect on working between Photo and Publisher or Designer?

I think Artboards are only available in Affinity Designer

Re-applying the master, in the beta, will often delete text fields so be careful!

I wonder has anyone advice on this problem. Without feed back from Serif I feel I am stuck It appears that Affinity Publisher cannot apply Master pages consistently when pages are inserted or deleted, and the fix in the beta causes deletion of content. Wonder if anyone has found a fix for this, or alternatively is there a place to report bugs like this? I

I don't have a solution for you . But I have been playing around with formats for Web and print export and you might want to consider a landscape format for the web/computer screen. Viewed on a computer monitor, a page in portrait format is not ideal. If you expand to take up the width of the screen then the whole page cannot be seen. Id you reduce it to see the whole page then you waste a lot of screen space and possibly make the text too small. As, I say, no solution just some observations from trying to do the same thing as you suggested.

Hi Stokerg Just wondering have you read my reply and opened the edited file? Does this need to be reported as a bug?

Hi Stokerg, Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the beta and reopened the file( a copy!). I selected page 7, right clicked to Clear masters. The background colour was removed. I then clicked on apply Masters, selected master A again. This corrected the page number position bur deleted all the text on page 7. ! ( "replace existing" and "migrate frame content" were both selected, as default. ) edited file attached. Perhaps you could have another look. ModelEngineering Articles - forBeta.afpub

File attached ModelEngineering Articles.afpub

WJC, I have the same problem, but in a smaller , simpler, book/document of about 40 pages. And , importantly, no deadline. I did try to correct the left/tight application of master pages "A" by re-applying the master but this deleted some content. So be careful even correcting it manually. I started a thread before reading yours ( there were no replies ). Needless to say , I hope you can get a solution, from which we can all learn. For my own document I am thinking of exporting the text, using cut and paste, into Word . creating a new document in A Publisher with the layout I want , and reimporting the text and images. It is an option for me only because the document I am working on is so simple. I will watch this space for a solution too so I hope Serif will post here when a solution is found

I have a simple document in Affinity Publisher. I have a master spread "A" applied to the spread of two pages. Essentially the default Master as the document is created. I have added a section name and page number to the master "A" pages. I also have a second master page, "B", which is applied only to the first page in a section and shows a heading text frame at the top.. The document contains about 10 sections. Each page consists of text frames with the occasional image , linked, added . So a very simple document. My problem comes with deleting pages. By default I have the page number at the bottom left of left pages and bottom right on right side pages but with pages being deleted or added this is occasionally reversed on some pages. If I try to correct this, by selecting the page and selecting "Apply Master" I sometimes get the desired result and sometimes I get the text frame and all the text deleted. I there a way to correct this without starting over again?