Affinity Publisher: What is this, and how do I get rid of it?

[marco_chacon]

Trying to drag a table around, apparently I copied it and somehow set it so it's inaccessible:

 

It's the table with the X's. It's not in my master files. I can't selected. I think I've found it in the layers panel but I can't delete it. What is this and how can I remove it?

[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, marco_chacon said:

I think I've found it in the layers panel but I can't delete it. What is this and how can I remove it?

It would help to see the Layers panel, and where you think you've found it.

Most likely, in my experience, you've pinned it into a Text Frame that came from a Master Page, and if so, it is considered to be in the Master Page as you will find it in the Master Page layer within the Layers panel. You'll need to use Edit Detached to unlock that Master Page content, and then you'll be able to delete it.

[v_kyr]

Probably a table in a locked layer. - See also ...

• Arrange/manage layers

[marco_chacon]

On 6/29/2023 at 10:37 PM, R C-R said:

 

 

 

This is the layer tab. IDK what to make of it. I don't see it in the Master Folder

35 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It would help to see the Layers panel, and where you think you've found it.

Most likely, in my experience, you've pinned it into a Text Frame that came from a Master Page, and if so, it is considered to be in the Master Page as you will find it in the Master Page layer within the Layers panel. You'll need to use Edit Detached to unlock that Master Page content, and then you'll be able to delete it.

 

[walt.farrell]

All those items with green bars or broken green bars are part of a Master Page, I think. You can perhaps see that if you look higher in the Layers panel. And since those 2 tables are within the items that have those green bars, they're probably also in that Master Page layer.