Affinity Publisher - Data Merge, not respecting alignment

[Karen_]

Hi everyone, 

I'm having issues with aligning text when using data merge. I start by making sure that the text is centred within the margins. I then generate the text and when generated, the text no longer respects the alignment (shifted off to the left as shown in the image). Is there something I am not doing correctly?

Help would be much appreciated. 

Thank you,

Karen

[Komatös]

Hi @Karen_ and welcome to the forum.

You must assign a paragraph style to the data fields in addition to centering the text.

Your current paragraph style is left-aligned!