Yellow/orange box appearing over page numbers in Publisher

[MorporkUK]

I have recently ported a magazine I used to publish in ID to Affinity Publisher via IDML. I thought I had successfully done so, but today when I open the afpub file, all the page numbers now appear with a translucent yellowy/orange box over them, including on the master pages. One page of the magazine – page 10 – refuses to recognises its place in the order of things, and now shows itself as page 1, even though I have detached it, deleted the master page items and dropped the master page on to it again. Oddly, despite Page 10 calling itself Page 1, the subsequent pages continue on as expected: page 11, page 12 etc.

What I can't fathom is that everything was fine  when I closed the afpub file last night. Only today, when I opened it, did these problems occur.

Thanks for any advice.

[firstdefence]

47 minutes ago, MorporkUK said:

translucent yellowy/orange box

Check the Character Panel and the text background and also the text frame panel for the text frame fill.

[Seneca]

52 minutes ago, MorporkUK said:

Only today, when I opened it, did these problems occur.

Most probably you have enabled Highlight Fields.

Go to Text->Highlight Fields menu option and see whether that is ticked. If it is then untick it if you don't like all fields to be highlighted.

 

[MorporkUK]

Seneca: Thanks for your quick reply. That was exactly what has happened. I'm doing the Lynda.com/LinkedIn tutorials on Publisher, and somewhere they must have told me to enable Highlight all fields – but not to turn them off (or more likely, I missed the instruction to turn them off!). It's all OK now – including the word page number 10 showing up as 1. It's now 10 as it should be. I can't see how that's related Tony yellow box problem, but it's OK now.

Many thanks for your help.