Publisher: Copying/pasting pinned copy causes strange results

[JimHinds]

I have a newsletter that requires pinned date/time box with each listing. The creation/pinning takes a couple of minutes. To save time I had copied/pasted previous listings, changing copy in InDesign. When I attempt this in publisher, I get the following result. Can you tell me what is causing the pinned box to shrink? This seems to happen whether using float or inline settings. 

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @JimHinds

It would help if you could upload the afpub file.

[Old Bruce]

11 hours ago, JimHinds said:

To save time I had copied/pasted previous listings, changing copy in InDesign. When I attempt this in publisher, I get the following result.

Where are you copying from?

There are options for pinning which relate to size of the pinned object. As firstdefense said, a copy of an affected file would help.

[JimHinds]

Sorry that I forgot to include the file. I am creating the first listing, copying the whole listing, including pin, then pasting below.

pinned copy test.afpub

[Old Bruce]

On 12/19/2020 at 8:00 PM, JimHinds said:

Sorry that I forgot to include the file. I am creating the first listing, copying the whole listing, including pin, then pasting below.

Sorry for the delay, I got lost between the kitchen and here. More Coffee was needed before I left.

I think what has happened is that your Pinned item is not a grouped text & graphic. It is a text item and is trying to take its size from the text next to the pinning selection.

And a word about the text styles, you have overridden in order them to include decorations. You should really define those in the Text style else when you change the dates and times in the graphic it may not update with the decorations. I would create a separate Group Style for holding the Month, Date (with decoration) and time. Include a Character Style for the Numerals.

included is a quick nasty example which should work with copy pasting, you'll have to set up the styles yourself.

Pinning proglem.afpub

Edit to include the file.