Gerard O

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

One of the pieces of information that allow me to see if a post is relevant is the title. 
That's why your title of "Why in the World"  is so helpful !
Not to worry, I didn't waste too much time

Thanks R C-R. 
I think I arranged the artboards top to bottom to ensure they would print in that order - so I inadvertently created the problem myself. I have rearranged the artboards on the layers panel and the print order is now correct.
Thanks again for your help
Gerard
 

Glad to hear that....but the title got your attention
R. Burns

One of the pieces of information that allow me to see if a post is relevant is the title. 
That's why your title of "Why in the World"  is so helpful !
Not to worry, I didn't waste too much time

I did not expect a copy of Indesign when switching to Affinity Publisher, but a serious alternative to Adobe in professional use. for the most part, the publisher also meets these expectations. But the lack of opportunity to bring together several publisher documents directly (just like in Indesign) makes it difficult to work on joint projects in a team ...

If you look at previous postings from me you will see that I don't think Serif/Affinity is perfect. But it is MS policy to  sandbox any apps downloaded from their store . I too have developed for MS and I can assure I have had no luck in getting MS to change their policies. Obviously you and other developers have been more successful in influencing policy.
I am not too sure insulting posters here will help you to a resolution. In any event I can be of no more help to you

If you look at previous postings from me you will see that I don't think Serif/Affinity is perfect. But it is MS policy to  sandbox any apps downloaded from their store . I too have developed for MS and I can assure I have had no luck in getting MS to change their policies. Obviously you and other developers have been more successful in influencing policy.
I am not too sure insulting posters here will help you to a resolution. In any event I can be of no more help to you

No, the Trial versions have a 10-day limit, but that's from the time they are first run after they are installed. After that they will start, but will not run unless you provide the product key.
The Beta versions don't have a specific time limit, but do require that you have purchased and installed the retail version of the program.

Why would you ever expect Affinity to support all these Photoshop components.
Clearly if you are so dependent on PS then that is probably the only software you can use?

Yes it will
It is your choice we are trying very hard for this all to be seemless on each OS, no matter where you choose to purchase from which should be your choice.

You can indeed send each page separately to output.  See the pdf export below. The border alternates from each page. This was created exactly as' Psenda' has suggest to you in the post above, i.e. with facing pages. 

Why would you ever expect Affinity to support all these Photoshop components.
Clearly if you are so dependent on PS then that is probably the only software you can use?

Re we talking about American pica's, French picas, or Postscript pica?
 

Not sure I am understanding you correctly, but can you not just type the characters?

Why would you ever expect Affinity to support all these Photoshop components.
Clearly if you are so dependent on PS then that is probably the only software you can use?

We will enable beta for Microsoft Store in the future.