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I've created a multipage Affinity Publisher document (using the Generate option in Data Merge). I then have a single page poster design in Affinity Designer which places these pages, 1 through 16, into the layout.  All is fine at this point. If I then re-run Generate because of an update to the underlying data it regenerates the AP document which then is "updated" when the AD document is opened. The problem is that Page 1 now becomes Master A and Page 2 becomes Page 1 i.e. all the pages are off by one. Master A is not used in the AD document and I can't delete it from the AP document. Placing a dummy Master A page into the layout doesn't stop this from happening.

This is clearly a bug but any thoughts on how I can get past this for now?

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34 minutes ago, Paul Mc said:

Master A is not used in the AD document and I can't delete it from the AP document. Placing a dummy Master A page into the layout doesn't stop this from happening.

Why can't you delete Master A?

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Ah. Thanks @walt.farrell that was the clue. Even though AP objected with an error message it does delete it if you clear masters from all the other pages. It then seems to keep sync. The linking seems to be using the index of the "page" and Master A is bumping them all along by one.

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