Victor.13 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Hello, I'm currently working on a 202 pages project on affinity Publisher, all my text zones are linked to each other. I would like to cut one of them, but if I do so, all the text goes under the previous text zone. My question is: Is it possible to cut the link between text zones and keep the text as it is ? It would definitely save my life and a lot of hours of work ! Thank you Victor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Not sure if this is what you want, click on the triangle for the text flow and then click on the same text frame to break the link. you can then link to another frame in the document. Screen Recording.mov Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.1 Affinity Designer 2.2.1 | Affinity Photo 2.2.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor.13 Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 Hi Old Bruce, Thanks for you answer, but if I break the link this way all the text goes under the text bloc. I would like to break the link and keep the text before and after the the link as is. I have 100 others text zones after the link I want to break.. That's why I'm trying to find a solution ! To avoid a huge copy & paste .. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Are you wanting to have the text in the second frame remain but be unlinked? So the text would flow from page 2 to page 4 but have the text remain in page 3? Not sure why you would want to but I think you would need to Select the text in Page 3 and Cut it out (or Copy it if you want to keep it in the Text Flow) then Unlink the Page 3 text frame and paste the text into Page 2 and relink to Page 4 from Page 2. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.1 Affinity Designer 2.2.1 | Affinity Photo 2.2.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor.13 Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 I have 4 big parts in my document. I want to have one text flow per part. I didn't notice that Part 2 and 3 are in the same text flow, I would like to cut the link between those parts, that's why I'm asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Victor.13 said: I have 4 big parts in my document. I want to have one text flow per part. I didn't notice that Part 2 and 3 are in the same text flow, I would like to cut the link between those parts, that's why I'm asking. You are going to have to Copy Cut the Part Three text and Paste into a new text frame (this is Temporary). Now you have Part 2 in the original and Part 3 can be pasted (again) once you have broken the link as in the movie. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.1 Affinity Designer 2.2.1 | Affinity Photo 2.2.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor.13 Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 Cut .. I never think about this option ! Thank you very much for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey T Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 It is counter intuitive because the obvious fix would be to lock the text fields that you want to keep and have the text flow work around them! My fix has been to just create new layers of text frames on those pages where I am working ahead. It's maddening though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 I included detailed steps on how to split a story (the text in linked text frames) in the free Publisher manual I uploaded to the forum. You can download it from the link in my signature. In the current version it is on page 39 (pdf page 47). Good luck Quote Download a free PDF manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - now includes text formatting and styles Affinity 2.3.0 for macOS Sonoma 14.1.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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