Barbasol

Is there a way to move pages in Publisher without dragging. E.g. I want to take page 57 and make it page 2.
Can't find it. Thanks!

Thank you that is just what I wanted!!!!
(don't know why the character panel didn't occur to me!)

I am going to assume you are using Designer, the following will work in any of the three Affinity applications. Select the Art Text layer with the Move tool. Then use the Charter panel to reset either the Width or Height to whichever % you need, want.
Original group scaled to different ratio.

Rescaled text to 100%

Rescaled text to 231%

That's interesting in that it shows the functionality is almost already built it!
The main thing missing is to autosize the text frame. For my purposes, this is mainly what I need (Artistic->Frame Text). Thanks.

Not sure why I never responded to this... but can't it just use the dimensions of the Artistic Text object you are converting from? I just think it's easier for the user if it matches the old text, letting the user expand in the desired dimension (maybe the old width was fine and they just need vertical). Right now when you paste it creates a default sized Frame Text object that will almost always need resizing.
Or maybe you were just talking about the pasting workaround. Well even in this case, it would be great if they just made the new Frame Text object match the size of the text you are pasting in. (Maybe they purposely make it bigger so you realize it's Frame Text vs Artistic Text?) 
 
Right now, to convert Artistic to Frame Text, the steps are:
1. Select text in Artistic Text object.
2. Copy Text.
3. Click on document to deselect.
4. Paste Text to create Frame Text object.
5. Move new Frame Text to old Artistic Text (luckily, snapping makes this less tedious)
6. Resize new Frame Text to match old Artistic Text (admittedly you may want it a different size anyway, but I'd rather it matched the old text and let the user expand, vs extra large and making the user contract.)
7. Delete the old Artistic Text.
So those are 7 tedious steps that are perfectly suited for computer automation! 
I just find it amazing that Artistic Text->Frame Text is almost already built in (via Paste) they just need to match the sizing when pasting text. And possibly formalize it by adding a menu command.
Actually, when you right-click the menu command is already there just grayed out, called "Convert to Text Frame". 😀 Ok, not really. That command is to convert a vector shape into a text frame but it could just contextually work to convert Artistic Text if that is what is selected. (I'm not really thinking this through, maybe a separate menu command makes sense.)
 
Anyway, my main point is this would be a great feature and I don't see how it would be that hard to implement. The conversion doesn't have to be perfect if the two types of text don't support all the features of the other. Just a basic conversion would be so helpful.
 
 

If you expand the Pages panel to fill the whole screen it will list the pages as a grid (rather than a single column). On my modest screen I can view ~130 pages with medium size thumbnails.
That should make all but the biggest moves doable without scrolling.
Unfortunately there seems to be a bug: if you switch to small page thumbnails they are always shown as a list, even if the panel is wide enough to show multiple columns.
Reported here…
 

No.... ok tried it, and that's not too bad of a workaround. But rather clunky.
Dragging pages that requires scrolling seems to be buggy.... like I drag a page all the way so it scrolls to page 1 and then the page doesn't actually move. I guess I should put that in the bug forum.
Seems you can't just copy/paste pages either.
Thanks for the workaround though, that'll work in the meantime!!!

There may be a better way, but have you tried simply cutting the content of page 57, deleting the empty page, inserting a new page before page 2 and pasting the copied content onto it?

Just came here looking for this feature too. Too bad. Would like to print gridlines. Doing it manually will be a big pain. Maybe in the future...
Thanks.

The functionality to switch between artistic and frame text would be a great addition to Designer... Illustrator's implementation of doing this (double click a specific node on a text object, or right click > convert to...) is a perfect example on how it should be handled.

Here's a thread with a whole bunch of other people wanting this as well.

It's not really an intuitive way, but highlight the text and cut it. Now take any other tool and make sure nothing is selected. Paste, and you will get a large text frame with that text.

@Chris_K
Is there any planned timeline for this? Are we talking months, years?

Great to hear, because it will be a pretty important option in my opinion