Master page margins

[Kate H]

I am new to Affinity Publisher, so this may simply be something I have not grasped yet.

I have imported text into a document and subsequently decided to lower the top margin on the main Master A. However, the text frames on the pages do not snap to the new margin. I deleted my text and the pages and pasted it into the document again, autoflowing to Master A pages. This solved the issue, but is there a way to do it without deleting? I have a similar issue with the Master I have set up for the openings of chapters. I set a deeper top margin to drop the title down the page, but have to manually align the text frame with the margin guide. Is there a different way (without adding extra paragraph marks) to create space above the first paragraph on a page? In InDesign i used a paragraph rule with an offset, but I can't see how to add an offset distance under a rule above a paragraph in Affinity.

Many thanks

[Old Bruce]

31 minutes ago, Kate H said:

I set a deeper top margin to drop the title down the page,

Don't do this. Use a Paragraph Style for the title or chapter name. You can set the space before to be further from the top of the regular size text frame.

[Kate H]

Oh, I see, I didn't notice the setting to have the space before "only at column top". Elegant! Thank you.

[Old Bruce]

1 minute ago, Kate H said:

"only at column top"

Thanks for giving your solution. I really should have mentioned that choice, still a bit early here on the Left Wet Coast so I need more coffee.