Autoflow Word docx content on import into Publisher doc

[Guest]

I feel like I must be missing something. In InDesign when I place a Word docx file into a new InDesign doc that has a primary text frame, InDesign will add as many linked pages as required to display all of the text within the document. In Publisher, the task of adding pages and linking all of the frames (even using Master pages with a 'primary' text frame) still appears to fall to me.

Am I doing something wrong?
Is there a way to autoflow placed text in a Publisher document and I'm simply not seeing it?

For small documents this is a minor inconvenience, but for larger documents this is a non-starter.

[Old Bruce]

Using Publisher we have to Shift + Click on the text overflow indicator on the text frame after placing the .docx file in a text frame.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, Bryan Rieger said:

Is there a way to autoflow placed text in a Publisher document and I'm simply not seeing it?

You Place it into a text frame. It overflows. You shift-click on the red linking triangle on the lower right edge of the frame. 

Help: https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/flowingText.html

[Guest]

Ah, thank you @Old Bruce and @walt.farrell. I figured it had to be there, but I never would have guessed it was only available via a keyboard shortcut.

It might be helpful if there were some more visible options when placing docx files. Even having an 'autoflow text to new pages' checkbox would be much clearer.

FWIW I eventually did find in the manual, but for something as routine as this it would be nice if users didn't have to RTFM (or lazily post to the forum 😁).

[thomaso]

23 hours ago, Bryan Rieger said:

if there were some more visible options

There is a slightly hidden option to make visible options more obviously visible: Preferences > Tools > Tool Handle Size. This also increases the red markers for Text Flow you might have overseen before. Apropros routine:

23 hours ago, Bryan Rieger said:

FWIW I eventually did find in the manual, but for something as routine as this it would be nice if users didn't have to RTFM (or lazily post to the forum 😁).

But, FWIW, how about reading the Tooltips that permanently occur in your document window's bottom line, context related every time? Aren't they less kind of RTFM than e.g. a search in the menus, help or forum? 😉