Publisher2: How do I get text & paragraph styles to "stick"?

[Joansz]

I've created my document and styles for contents and paragraphs and every thing looks as it should. However, when I open the pub anew in publisher and go into a text box they have no style. Also, I get a preflight error message that my TOC needs fixing. With my styles gone, I'm loath to "fix" it since it's correct and the PDF works correctly. Below is a screen capture of the document showing the TOC, settings, and preflight warning.

I have watched several tutorials and read through "help" and thought I was correctly setting up styles, etc., but obviously I missed at least one critical step to make them stick and have no idea of what I've done wrong.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, Joansz said:

and go into a text box they have no style.

Generally, Text Frames do not have a Text Style. They may have a Text Style specified in the Context Toolbar, and if so the next new text you type in that Text Frame should have that Text Style. But the Frame itself doesn't really have one, as the text within it may have a number of different styles.

If you click into the frame, on some specific text, you should see the Text Style that text has, however.

[Joansz]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Generally, Text Frames do not have a Text Style. They may have a Text Style specified in the Context Toolbar, and if so the next new text you type in that Text Frame should have that Text Style. But the Frame itself doesn't really have one, as the text within it may have a number of different styles.

If you click into the frame, on some specific text, you should see the Text Style that text has, however.

Ah, that makes sense. I'm a little confused because there are two boxes that are for style. Is the right one for paragraph? What is the left style for?

[Old Bruce]

3 minutes ago, Joansz said:

I'm a little confused because there are two boxes that are for style. Is the right one for paragraph? What is the left style for?

What "two boxes"? There are three places to set up Text Styles. The Character Panel can do Character Styles and the Paragraph Panel can do Paragraph Styles and the Text Styles dialog can make Group, Paragraph and Character Styles with more options. The Styles made with the Text Styles dialog will appear in the Character and Paragraph panels and they will show up as selected in the Context Toolbar when text is selected.

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

What "two boxes"?

In the Context Toolbar, with a Text Frame selected.

[Joansz]

20 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

Left box is for character styles , right box is for paragraph styles.
See: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Text/textStyles.html

Thank you! That's what I though, but couldn't remember where I read it. Appreciate the link.