Importing text, preserving italics, bold, etc...

[BryceB]

What is the best way to import text that has italics, bolds, or underlines.

If I do a copy & paste from word or wherever, the italics, etc are rpeserved, but so is the source's font and line spacing. If I apply the correct style to my imported text, then it clobbers and removes all italics, etc and I have to go through the source doc and affinity dock, manually highlighting and italicizing (or bolding) the text to get it to match, which requires a lit of time. Is there a better way to get that text into affinity publisher? 

[lacerto]

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[Catshill]

On 12/20/2019 at 7:15 PM, BryceB said:

What is the best way to import text that has italics, bolds, or underlines.

If I do a copy & paste from word or wherever, the italics, etc are rpeserved, but so is the source's font and line spacing. If I apply the correct style to my imported text, then it clobbers and removes all italics, etc and I have to go through the source doc and affinity dock, manually highlighting and italicizing (or bolding) the text to get it to match, which requires a lit of time. Is there a better way to get that text into affinity publisher? 

This is an issue for me too. I import text from Google Docs and it would help me a lot if I could preserve bold and italics. Like you when I change to the body text style both are removed.

[Glenn Cheney]

Sorry, I find these explanations rather confusing. Is there a simple answer to this question:

When I change a font by assigning a new style to a paragraph, I lose all the italics. Is there any way to change styles without losing italics? 

 

 

[Old Bruce]

Use either of these. Right Click or Control Click on the little 'hamburger' menu in the Text Styles panel.

[Twolane]

I know this is an old thread, but thanks, Old Bruce. This place saved my bacon once again! 😀