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Hi, i paste the text "without formatting" from a Word file. The paragrafs don,t flow correctly from one side to another. I am clueless now and running out of options. What can i do ti fix it. I view a lot of tutorials and there it always works. Naturally i guess 🙂 I,ve attached a screenshot of the problem. I will thank you for your hints.

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Hi and welcome to the forums @Henry W. Lamington,

Turn on the Show special characters. There is probably a frame or page or column break in there which has been inherited from the Word document. I would also check the Layers Panel to see if there are empty graphics copied over.

Go to Text > Show Special Characters and then look at the end of the line "Dann stand er" for a light blue glyph, some sort of arrow.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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Hi, thank you for your quick reaction. I try it, but there are no functional charakters or glyphs in the paragraphs. I try it with some other text files like .odt and always appears this type of big white undestroyable rocks. I opened the panels for paragraphs and charakters, may be i have made some wrong decisions? I have a deadline for this projekt and really run out of ideas. What can i do?

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Hi @Henry W. Lamington,

Could you possibly upload a copy of this .afpub document here, so I can look into this further for you? Many thanks in advance :)

Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave.

If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap.

Many thanks :)

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43 minutes ago, Henry W. Lamington said:

I try it, but there are no functional charakters or glyphs in the paragraphs. I try it with some other text files like .odt and always appears this type of big white undestroyable rocks.

That also looks like it could be related to Flow Options in the Paragraph panel. You might check them and make sure none are enabled:

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40 minutes ago, Henry W. Lamington said:

It is in the Flow, you have Keep with next paragraph checked.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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1 minute ago, Henry W. Lamington said:

thank you for your hints. I,ve got it now. There ist still a lot to learn. 🙂 I have learned manual typesetting in the 70,s, to do it by software is tricky for me.

Everything I learned about typesetting and layout and photography during the 70's doesn't apply anymore. To learn the software give yourself some real simple tasks and try to find out how many different ways there are to do them. I really like working with text, not word processing documents, plain text documents. Everything we know about Word Processing should be ignored because it doesn't necessarily translate over to Publish.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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