Moving text lines in Affinity Publisher

[floresco]

Hi all,

I have created a menu flyer for a restaurant. The client wants to have several dishes in the menu lists in a different order. Is there a method for moving text lines, or can one change the order of numbered lists (respectively bullet lists) in any way? I have found no keyboard shortcut for it so far. I tried to mark a line and to insert it at another position in the list via drag&drop, but this always breaks the formatting.

Reordering the lists with copy&paste every single line would be cumbersome and rather time-consuming now. I hope there is a solution for this task.

Cheers,

Andrea

[walt.farrell]

17 minutes ago, floresco said:

Reordering the lists with copy&paste every single line would be cumbersome and rather time-consuming now. I hope there is a solution for this task.

Other than drag-and-drop I think that's all you can do.

I don't understand why drag-and-drop would "break the formatting", by the way. Can you provide more details, or an example file to show that?

[floresco]

I have played around with D&D a bit now, and found that it is all about setting the target location more precisely. So, in a numbered list, the curser needs to be placed exactly between the number-prefix and the text. Anyways, having a shortcut like alt + arrow up/down to move lines around, like it is common in code editors, would be really a great feature to have in this case.

Thanks for your reply Walt!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. And I'm glad you figured out the issue.

Alt+Arrow up/down are already used for leading adjustment, I think. Finding a good shortcut that isn't already used in the application or by the OS might be difficult

[lacerto]

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