Text Style

[pioneer]

Good afternoon I am converting a song book PDF from PagePlus and then create a new TOC In AP ver2.  I trying to apply a text style of heading1 on the song title but I cannot seem to find anywhere to do this within Affinity Publisher.  Can anybody please assist on where I might find the list of of options such as body text etc. Cheers John

[MikeTO]

Hi John, there are three places you can do this. Select the text and then apply the style with:

1. Text Styles panel - click Heading 1
2. Paragraph panel - select Heading 1 from the unlabeled list below the alignment icons
3. Context Toolbar - selecting Heading 1 from the list to the right of the pilcrow icon ¶

You might also want to read the Text Styles chapter of the free Publisher manual I've shared in this forum. The link is in my signature.

Cheers

[pioneer]

@MikeTO Thanks for the quick response it would appear that the PDF file might be the problem because all I get with that is "new style". when I create a new AP file and text box all works as you have shown. I have the hardback manual but that was not much help either. So will download your free manual (with thanks) and press on.  It maybe I will have to create a new file and copy and paste the body text for my original.  Thanks very much John

[walt.farrell]

PDF files do not contain Text Styles, and when you Open a file the only Text Styles the Affinity document contains are those from the file you Opened. Therefore, when you Open a PDF, you have no Text Styles at all.

You can import some from another document, though. Just Open a standard .afpub file that has the Text Styles you want (or create a new empty document with File > New, and Save it). Then use the panel preferences (3-bar burger menu) in the Text Styles panel and choose the Import option and select the file to import from.