Deleting or Undoing Page Break in Affinity Publisher

[danielschenk]

When I insert a Page Break in Affinity Publisher by going to Text > Insert > Breaks > Page Breaks, the page breaks where I had my cursor. Great, because it maintains the text flow.

However, when I later decide I want to delete the Page Break, I have not found an easy way to do this. The only way to do this was by going to the History section (lower right hand corner) and deleting the action: Insert: "<PBREAK>". However, that deletes all subsequent changes or actions as well, not just the Page Break. The result is that I lose all changes and have to them, without the Page Break, of course. That's tedious. 

There must be a better way to do this? Any ideas?

Thanks, Daniel

[Wosven]

Hi @danielschenk

You should be able to delete the character break like any other character: positioning your cursor before or after it, and using delete or backspace keys.

If you display the special charaters (spaces, tabulations...) you'll be able to see the one used for page breaks, and it'll be easier to get your cursor at the right position to delete them.

[walt.farrell]

Place the text cursor just before the Page break, and press Delete. (Or, if you're on a Mac, whatever key you would use to delete in a forward direction.)

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, danielschenk said:

I want to delete the Page Break, I have not found an easy way to do this.

 

[danielschenk]

That's a great help to know how to locate existing Page Breaks. Thank much Walt, Wosven and Old Bruce.
Daniel

[HiThere]

Nothing works for me. Special characters are not displayed for me. I tried deleting everything and pasting it back in without formatting. Is there another solution?

Again, I have problems in Affinity I never experienced in any software before. Affinity takes so much time that I do not have.

 

[HiThere]

Okay, I found out it was because of a hidden image with Text wrapping activated. But I would clarify this as a bug. Wrapping should change if I hide an image. Because I need to keep this image as a backup in that file, and it is too much work to hide several images and deactivate the wrapping each time.

Also, I have another problem with average text breaks, mysteriously at some point it is not possible to make a break without pressing shift, otherwise Affinity will produce a column break instead of a text break.

[Alfred]

16 minutes ago, HiThere said:

Wrapping should change if I hide an image.

I disagree. Wrapping is set in relation to the space occupied by the image, and that space remains the same whether the image is visible or not.

[HiThere]

11 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I disagree. Wrapping is set in relation to the space occupied by the image, and that space remains the same whether the image is visible or not.

Sure, but it is not intuitive if the text works with elements that are not there. Especially if you drag in another image with another size, before hiding the last image. 

[Oufti]

4 hours ago, HiThere said:

I need to keep this image as a backup in that file

Drag the image outside of the page.