Publisher not allowing typing of letter b

[Harry Brains]

I have recently purchased Affinity Publisher for Windows/desk top and have found the tutorial videos very helpful. Everything works mostly as it should but I find that the program will not allow me to type a lower case letter b. Capital B is fine and control b works OK for bold text. I can also type upper case B and then select it and change to lower case. But I cannot type b directly. There is no problem with the keyboard -- b types normally in Word, or Excel or Notepad etc.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

What happens when you type a b? Just nothing?

Do you have b assigned as a keyboard shortcut for anything? Or for a Text Style?

[MikeTO]

To Walt's point about keyboard shortcuts, to find out if you've accidentally assigned it as a keyboard shortcut, go to Preferences > Shortcuts and assign b to something (it will appear as B but that's normal). Then mouse over it and a popup tip will inform you what it's assigned to, assuming there is a conflicting shortcut. Delete this new shortcut when you're done.

To find out if you've accidentally assigned it to a text style, open the Text Styles panel, click in text with the Text tool, and then type a b. Does the selected paragraph style or character style in the panel change?

[Harry Brains]

Thanks to both Walt and MikeTO. You were both correct. I didn't do it deliberately, but as you suspected the Body style was indeed linked to a short cut B. And now it's fine. Feeling rather stupid!

[walt.farrell]

No need to feel stupid, Harry. It's a complex suite of applications, with lots of capability but also lots of room for odd things to happen.

[Harry Brains]

Many thanks Walt