Is there a way to enter text which flows from one page to the next - like in Microsoft Word - without having to add pages and text boxes?

[Antony W]

Hi, very much a newbie here, just playing around with the trial version of Affinity Publisher. I want to use it to format novels with very few images, instead of using Microsoft Word which I find infuriating. However, Affinity is set up for magazines etc, where you don't have so much text flowing from one page to the next. Is there a way to use it like Word, rather than having to add - say - 250 pages and place a text box on each one?

[Old Bruce]

Hi and welcome to the forums @Antony W,

Set up a master page and place two text frames, one on each page, left and right. Link them.

Apply the master to the first Page, you will now have a Page with a text frame automatically added from the Master Page. Put your text in that and you should see a little triangle in the lower right of the text frame. It will be red indicating overflowing text.

Hold down the Shift key and click on that little triangle. Automatically enough pages will be added to hold all the text from your document from word.

[Antony W]

Hi, thanks very much for the reply. I've only just seen it. I'll give that a go.