Reapplying master rotates text

[Jill Wolcott]

I think this may have been addressed, but my issue is a little different so I want to check.

I often need to repaginate.  Sometimes tables are involved, so I'm moving text and tables.  The font size in the text changes.  Same when I add new pages and have existing text that I am unloading.  The text is either 2x or one-half my set font size.  I am using text styles that I have set both font size and spacing, and often bolding, etc.  I spend so much time reformatting it is frustrating.  

I have also had instances where all the text styles have been changed when I bring text in from another document.  I am attaching the document I was using today.  I am on a different computer than usual, and I think I fixed everything.  I did find some hidden text which I put onto page 23 and that shows the problem.  

I don't use the even number pages for text.  I place graphics over there.  The layout is then facing pages, but that doesn't work on my laptop (too small), so I often switch back and forth between facing pages and single pages.

No idea what happened to the text (which should be sideways) on the first page when I reapplied the master page.

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[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, Jill Wolcott said:

I did find some hidden text which I put onto page 23 and that shows the problem.

I'm not really sure what is incorrect on page 23. Is it that the body text and headings are smaller than on say page 20? If so, that's because on page 23 you've overridden the paragraph and character styles with smaller text size attributes. If you reapply the paragraph styles to the text it will increase to the same size as on page 20. I recommend that you expand the summary field at the top of the Text Styles panel so that you can see what's going on with your formatting.

2 hours ago, Jill Wolcott said:

No idea what happened to the text (which should be sideways) on the first page when I reapplied the master page.

The frame is not rotated on the master page or on page 1. You had probably rotated it on page 1 and when you re-applied the master page it restored it to the original. I recommend you type some placeholder text into this frame on the master page, rotate it, and apply the correct styles to it. Then re-apply the master to page 1 and then re-type the actual text if necessary.

Cheers

[Jill Wolcott]

Thanks. But the defaults are originally 16/18 and 14/13.5. That is exactly the problem. 

The rotated text was rotated and then unrotated itself. I was using Masters.

[Dan C]

Hi @Jill Wolcott,

Just to let you know, I have split your post to a new thread such that this can be investigated separately.

As Mike has mentioned above, your text on page 23 has local formatting applied over the Text Style - reapplying the Text Style sets the font to the expected size for me - though without the 'History' of the document saved with the file, I'm unable to confirm the exact reason for this locally applied formatting.

8 hours ago, Jill Wolcott said:

The rotated text was rotated and then unrotated itself. I was using Masters.

Can you please expand on the exact steps you took to reproduce this issue?

[MikeTO]

On 4/18/2023 at 12:56 PM, Jill Wolcott said:

No idea what happened to the text (which should be sideways) on the first page when I reapplied the master page.

15 hours ago, Jill Wolcott said:

The rotated text was rotated and then unrotated itself. I was using Masters.

The sideways text box is rotated on your other master pages but not on master page "E-Master Cover Page (new)". On that page it's just regular unrotated text. I believe you rotated it on the actual page and then when you reapplied "E-Master Cover Page (new)" to it Publisher unrotated it back to match the master page.