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I am using Affinity Publisher 2.5.2. Using Help > Affinity Publisher 2 Help, I've found that there is a Text Panel. Link here: https://affinity.help/publisher2ipad/English.lproj/contents.xml?page=pages/Panels/textPanel.html?title=Text panel

However, the help item does not indicate where to find or how to open this panel. Help pls?

As an aside, I am an intermittent user of Publisher, and I rely on the Help option a lot. I've found time and again, however, that the help articles start with phrases like "Click on the tool", or something similar, but they don't tell you where the tool is. It's probably obvious for frequent Publisher users. but not for intermittent users. A lot of the time the tools or panels are hidden, and one first has to figure out how to make them visible. I'd like to see Affinity update all its Help articles, always starting each article with where to find the tool or panel in question, before explaining how to use the tool. (Sorry to vent, but it's frustrating.)

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You're looking at the Help for Publisher 2 on iPad.

That won't help much if you're using Publisher on the desktop as implied by your placement of this question. Please confirm where you're working (OS) and where you got that link.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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I am on a Mac running macOS 14.5. The Help screen that I referred to in my first post is the one I see when I do Help > Affinity Publisher 2 Help on Mac. If that screen is actually for iPad, then maybe that is a different problem. How do I get to the Affinity Help screen that pertains to Mac?

Anyway, after enough hunting and pecking, a couple minutes ago I found the "Text Panel". Although contrary to the Help screen, I found that on Mac it's not called the Text Panel, it's actually the Character Panel. So problem solved.

Sorry for venting earlier. I do appreciate your help.

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1 hour ago, JeanPM said:

it's actually the Character Panel. So problem solved.

There is also a Paragraph Panel if go to Window > Text, and then the panels you need for text will be there.

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11 hours ago, JeanPM said:

Although contrary to the Help screen,

And that's because you were on the wrong Help screen. Thanks for confirming your OS and how you got to it.

Note that you can go to https://affinity.help in your favorite browser and pick the Help you want, which may be useful.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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15 hours ago, JeanPM said:

I am on a Mac running macOS 14.5. The Help screen that I referred to in my first post is the one I see when I do Help > Affinity Publisher 2 Help on Mac.

When I use Help > Affinity Publisher 2 Help on my Mac, using Publisher 2.5.2, I get to the correct Help and there is no mention of a Text panel. I presume that when you followed that link, you got a separate window with the Help. Can you show us a screenshot of that window, and describe how you searched there to get the link you provided in your first post?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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I am having the same issue as JeanPM as far as finding panels. 

Using the latest version Infinity Designer 2.5 on a desktop windows computer. I lost all the panels that were open and finding the "Help" menu not at all helpful. 

Am trying to find the panel that shows all the layers. I've clicked everywhere on all the menus. Been looking for approx. two hours and am finally giving up. As JeanPM said, it would be ever so helpful if the menus included how to find a panel, not just what they do. Can someone please help me find the layers panel. I would very much appreciate it!!!

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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

When I use Help > Affinity Publisher 2 Help on my Mac, using Publisher 2.5.2, I get to the correct Help and there is no mention of a Text panel.

Same here. I'm running Catalina (10.15.7) so that may have something to do with it but according to your sig you are also running macOS Sonoma (14.5) like the OP so that doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.

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On 6/18/2024 at 5:51 PM, JeanPM said:

The Help screen that I referred to in my first post is the one I see when I do Help > Affinity Publisher 2 Help

I don’t recall exactly, but I had a similar Help problem a couple years ago with one of the Affinity products. I ended up deleting the app, then re-downloading and reinstalling the app on my Mac. That fixed it.

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On 6/23/2024 at 9:56 PM, pomme27 said:

I don’t recall exactly, but I had a similar Help problem a couple years ago with one of the Affinity products. I ended up deleting the app, then re-downloading and reinstalling the app on my Mac. That fixed it.

I just did the same (removed then reinstalled the app). The Help panel doesn't say "for Mac" or anything like that, but I assume I'm in the correct place now because I can no longer get to the text panel that I reference above, which evidently was for iPad. So I think Help is working for me now. Thx.

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