Typing issue with Affinity Publisher 2.0

[Philip CH]

I just recently started learning Affinity 2.0 and when I created a new document, the text settings are messed up. For example, when I press the "backspace" key it responds like a space bar. The colon button displays a degree symbol. When I load a premade template from the Affinity store, it works fine. I checked through all the settings and I am totally stumped as to what to do. My language input is set to English on my laptop, so I know there is no issue there (the fact that the template works ok tells me that there is a setting somewhere within Affinity that is messed up). Also, everything types in caps even though the caps lock is off and the setting is correct with the Typography window.

Edited December 21, 2022 by Philip CH

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums @Philip CH,

In Publisher's Preferences, on the General tab, at the bottom, what Language is specified there?

[MikeTO]

You might also try this. Start Publisher, create a new document, and choose Edit > Defaults > Factory Reset. It sounds like you might have inadvertently changed some text defaults.

[Philip CH]

Thank you for your replies! I'm not sure what the issue was, I restarted my computer this morning and it worked fine. So strange. The language is set to English (US), this was what it was set at yesterday too. I also went ahead and did the Factory Reset as you suggested just to take care of any other issues that maybe I messed up. Thank you for your quick replies!

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Keyboard input broken after altering table settings" (REF: AFB-7583) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.1.0.1742".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.