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Just bumping this topic as I feel a lot of users would find it a udeful deature

Thank you Old Bruce and Oufi for your responses. Very interesting! I shall investigate and see how I can utilise the concepts. Again, many thanks- you are just demonstrating how supportive this forum is👍

I'm working on a project in Publisher (Windows) where the resulting document will have a number of images scattered through it. I need to compile a list of the images and the page numbers on which they can be found for insertion in the document's front or back matter. However, I'm aware that the content may change and that, depending on what's inserted or removed, the page numbers of some of the images may change. Is there a method by which I can compile a list of the images, and their page numbers which can be "automatically" updated if the images are moved to different pages? Would it be possible to use a second Table of Contents that allows for the image descriptions/citations to be included? All advice gratefully received.

Having just worked on a project where the author had a number of lengthy tables in their source manuscript, it was a bit tedious in manipulating the table in Publisher so that the table split neatly over multiple pages. I'm sure it would be a very beneficial enhancement if Publisher had the ability to insert a break into a long table - creating two table objects, so that the second "overflow" table object could be placed on a new page. Please consider implementing a means of "Table Flow" in a future update.

Just a thought - would Data Merge be a possible solution? Have all the captions and links to the images in a file that is processed by the Data merge function. Meaning that you can arrange the images in the sequence you desire, etc? I'm no expert on this feature, but maybe looking at some of Elaine Giles' video tutorials https://www.youtube.com/@ElaineGiles/featured among others might help

Aha! Yes, moving the content from A4 to 8.5" x 11" would cause problems in terms of how objects sit on the page. I'm not familiar with printing via Amazon, but I'm surprised they don't provide color printing for A4-size paperbacks. Over the last 3 years or so, I've used Lulu https://www.lulu.com/ to print A4 paperback-style publications (between 180 and 280 pages) produced from Affinity Publisher, and :ulu offers standard and premium color options for its A4 paperbacks. Unclear what you are referring to as "the inappropriate guidelines". Without experimenting, I'm not sure I can give an answer. I think I'd start with a fresh blank document of the desired size and then set the Master page up with the margins and guidelines that are appropriate. Then copy/paste content from your source and place it accordingly. But I'm not sure how this would work across all the 120+ pages in your document. Sorry I can't be of more help. regards!

Question 5 - I'm guessing you mean the text frame that's partially shown on the edge of the right-hand page. Once again that's something that's on your Master Page. Go to the Master Page and remove it. Hope the above helps regards!

Question 4 - again it's a Master Page thing - go to your master page, select the specific text frame and remove it The video tutorial "Mastering Master Pages in Affinity Publisher" from Elaine Giles may be of help to explain how to use Master Pages - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr5je_swyJU&list=PLsCMmKpreBWJAShgi8vchMtwTzBnDk4Bc&index=65

Question 3 - the blue guideline (for the text frame) is close to the gutter because that's how the text frame is set up on the Master Page. View your Master Page to see how the document layout is set up.

Question 2 - The red lines are the margins set on your Master Page. Go to File -> Document Settings -> Margins for more info on the values. Noremally, I'd expect any text frames to be sized/aligned with the document margins as part of the layout guide.

Quick answer to your Question 1 - use a page number field on your master page. See the "Perfect Page Numbers in Affinity Publisher" video tutorial by Elaine Giles at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24I7CdlbP4&t=328s This is one of Elaine's many highly informative tutorials on using Affinity Publisher. I'll see if I can answer the other questions once I've downloaded your sample file. regards!

I understand that not every user will have a need for flowing tables, but some will. I always found it useful in Serif's PagePlus. When the content for a publication includes tables supplied as Excel tables, the table flow feature would be more efficient than taking a copy of the placed Excel and cropping it to fit one page, then taking another copy of the source Excel file and cropping it to get the content for the next page, and repeat as required ... Some of the work I've dealt with has included several long tables supplied as Excel files. I encourage Serif to add the feature to Affinity Publisher.

I have to agree with the concerns raised in this topic (and others) regarding the lack of the ability to flow tables across multiple pages. I used Affinity Publisher's predecessor, Serif's PagePlus, for many years and that had the capability of flowing tables both horizontally and vertically; i.e. if you had more rows in the table than would fit on the page, you could "break" the table at a suitable point and move the overflow section to a new page, with the overflow section remaining linked to its previous part, The "breaking" of a large table could also be performed where there were too many columns for a page's width , creating an overflowed section of the extra columns that could be moved to a different page. It would be very helpful if such a facility could be introduced to Affinity Publisher.

Very useful chart. Look forward to seeing more.

Thanks for the response, Mike. You've done a great job with the "Unofficial Manual" - I'm sure the nest edition will be even better! And the Advanced Page Management features are going to be a great boon to me.

Thanks again for this great resource, Mike. Just used it to refresh my memory on how to manage a couple of things in AfPub. Also - I've recently taken a look at the features coming in v2.6 that's currently in Beta, especially the "Advance Page Management" features - looks like yopu'll be updating the "Pages and Master Pages" section of your manual when v2.6 is released 😄

Just to report that walt Darrell's advice above was most helpful. I've now been able to insert over 20 tables in the document I was processing. The author had included these in his MS Word manuscript as Word tables. I transferred each into Excel, did some formatting there to sort columns out and then used Place to insert them in the Publisher document and then finished the formatting there. I will have to spend a bit of time investigating this a bit further. Thanks again for the pointers 👍

Thanks for the response, Walt. Much appreciated. I think I'd got it in my head that "Place" was for images abd the like, not equating that withimportibg data. So I've been attempting to copy/paste from Word/Excel which seems to have a mind of its own! I'll experiment with the Place option tomorrow and report back. I continue to be impressed by the helpfulness and friendliness of those in the Affinity community.

Is there a resource which clearly shows how to place data from Word table or Excel sheet? I've been struggling with this recently on v2.5.2. And having got the data in, I find that the rowa in the resulting Publisher table are set at different row heights and I can't see how to get all rows the same height. I also seem to get the odd blank row appearing where there wasn't one in the source. Are there any specific things that should be done to the source data so that it imports correctly. This is a bit frustrating as I don't recall having such glitches before in earlier versions of Publisher (and I think things went smoothly in dear old PagePlus). Would be grateful of any tips/resources.

For the avoidance of doubt, this issue also occurs on the Windows desktop version as well as MacOS.

Will a fix for this be included in v2.5?

Will a fix for this bug be in the 2.5 release?

@MikeTO - belated thanks for the 2.4 update to your great user manual resource. I really appreciate what you've done here. I particularly like the clear section on Books and Chapters, explaining the limitations regarding the merging of sections/chapters where consideration needs to be given to the presence (or not) od blank pages between sections/chapters. regards,

I appreciate that the OP's question has been resolved, but I thought it would be appropriate to note a couple of newsources of assistance: Elaine Giles produced a tutorial video "Perfect Page Numbers in Affinity Publisher" (Desktop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24I7CdlbP4a and "Perfect Page Numbers in Affinity Publisher for iPad": https://youtu.be/j0yn_8gM6Ik

I think the problem here is that the master page that's being applied is "None" as shown in the box at the top ( the curved corner box with the label "None" beneath it.) You have to create a master page which will then be selectable from this screen. In the desktop version the master page creation option is in the Master page section of the Pages panel, I'm guessing that's where it is on iPad