big smile Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 In other DTP programs, if you paste a list into a table, then every entry in the list will appear as a separate row on the table. Is there any way to do this in Affinity Publisher? When the whole list is just pasted into the first cell. By a list, I mean something that has line breaks. For example: Andalusia Andes Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canary Islands Caribbean Catalonia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 16 minutes ago, big smile said: if you paste a list into a table, then every entry in the list will appear as a separate row on the table. Is there any way to do this in Affinity Publisher? When the whole list is just pasted into the first cell. There is some quirk or bug with pasting a list into a table. Seems to me I have to first paste the text into a Frame Text text frame then copy that and select several rows and paste. If I use text copied from a separate application and try to paste it directly into Publisher then I get all the text in one cell no matter how many cells I have selected. This quirky bug drives me up the wall. big smile 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Yes, there is "a" way – its details depend on your platform (mac/win) and the source file type (spreadsheet, .rtf, txt. … etc.). So it appears to be a more or less complex procedure which requires to consider several if-then conditions. This two threads discuss this and include sucessful workflows: big smile 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 4 hours ago, Old Bruce said: If I use text copied from a separate application and try to paste it directly into Publisher then I get all the text in one cell no matter how many cells I have selected. FWIW, for me if using Safari I copy the list from the first post to the clipboard, it works fine if I first select enough cells ... but if say I paste that text into TexEdit & do not make the format Rich Text then it all ends up in the first selected cell. So if you copy the text from this text list.rtf file, if you then select at least two cells & paste, does it work for you? big smile 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.2 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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