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In Affinity Publisher, I have a master page text element that I have overridden on some pages with different text, styles etc. I cannot work out how to remove my overrides and have the master page control that text element again.

What am I missing ?

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38 minutes ago, kentsor said:

What am I missing ?

Nothing, as far as I know. Once you've overridden that kind of thing you can only get back to what the Master Page had by reapplying the Master, I think. And that can have side-effects.

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@kentsor

If you reapply a master page to your normal pages you reset all elements/objects on those pages to their default master page settings which, as @walt.farrell has hinted, is not always what you want to do.

But it is possible to reset just one element from a master page back to its default master page settings if that is what you want to do.

In the case of a text element (as per your request) bear in mind this also resets the actual text as well - not just the formatting of the text, etc.  It's a little unclear in your post if this is what you want or not.


1. Goto the master page select the text frame and Edit > Copy

2. Goto any page which has the text frame you altered

3. Select the master page layer in the Layers panel

4. Right-click it and select Edit Linked

5. Use Edit > Paste Inside to add the text frame you copied in step 1

6. Select and delete the original text frame layer in the Layers panel (which will be a child of the master page layer)

7 Click the Finish button in the orange bar at the top of the screen.

All pages should now have the "original text" frame object, that is on the master page, and any future changes to that object on the master page will now also affect all pages.


The 1.8 beta of Publisher has some improvements in this area but can still cause unwanted side-effects

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