Making detaching easier in publisher

[noah]

I'm an occasional InDesign user who'd love to make the switch to Affinity. I tried the Publisher beta a year ago and it feels like it's come a long way in terms of usability since then, but I still haven't figured out the proper workflow for using master pages. The way I use them in InDesign is essentially as a template, so each spread would come pre-populated with some frames in reasonable locations.

However, I find myself wanting to make lots of individual tweaks on any given spread, which necessitates:

1. Finding the master object in the layers window
2. Clicking "Edit: Detached"
3. Making a tweak
4. Clicking "Finish"

This seems extreme in terms of the number of mouse clicks required, and is limiting/prescriptive in the workflow process. Am I missing something obvious? If not, I would love it if there could be a global "detached" mode, or at the very least, a key command that would enter detached mode for the master containing the currently-selected object.

[Catshill]

I came to the conclusion that detatching took more time than creating new body text frames on my pages. I do use heading boxes and of course page numbers on master pages however .

[walt.farrell]

On 12/28/2019 at 3:58 PM, noah said:

Finding the master object in the layers window

It may help you if you make sure that in Preferences, User Interface, you have the "Show Selection in Layers Panel" option enabled.