Inserting text causes text to write over other text

[RainbowsC]

Hi all

When I insert text, instead of moving all the following text down, Affinity Publisher causes text to appear over the top of other text on the following page. 

I cannot seem to make it insert properly.
It looks, in the layers panel, as though there is an extra layer somewhere but I have no idea how it could have been created because the entire text was imported from an RTF file and I just pasted the first page than used the outflow to create and fill more pages. But the dots that should hide a layer are not working, and selecting a layer is difficult because after I click on a layer, Affinity seems to make the cursor jump to another layer. It won't stay on the one I select. Very frustrating!  

And using the arrow key to select the text frame doesn't work either.  Normally I can select a text frame and move it to see if there is another layer underneath, but that isn't working either. 

All I did was to insert a page break before a subheading that was appearing on the last line of a page, then this happened on the following page. If I delete the inserted break, everything looks fine except that the subheading looks silly at the bottom of a page.

Thank you to anyone who can help me understand what is going on here and fix the problem 

[Oufti]

1 hour ago, RainbowsC said:

If I delete the inserted break, everything looks fine except that the subheading looks silly at the bottom of a page.

To solve this, you could modify the Flow options in the Paragraph panel (or in the Text Style definition, if you want it applied to all Subheadings paragraphs). Choose: Keep with next 1 or 2 lines.

[Post Scriptum:]

For the rest, it looks like the Layer 'Brittany¶Monday, /19' is redundant. Copy its content then delete it. Paste the content after the last character of previous page. Check the text flow arrows (View menu).

[RainbowsC]

 

Thank you so much for replying, Oufti. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. I tried the Flow Option and it still causes the text to overwrite.
I think you are right that the layer, 'Brittany¶Monday, /19' is redundant.  If I copy it, it seems to contain the same content as 'Brittany¶Monday, /16' but I can't delete either layer. There is something weird going on with the layers. I can select a layer, but it's a struggle and often takes many attempts. I can lock and unlock.  I can't hide or delete any layer except the Main Pages layer.  

[RainbowsC]

Hi again, Oufti. No apologies for language needed. You are a wonderful help, and so generous with your time and knowledge. I am very grateful.

Postcript to the above - happily I discovered there is an option in the Main Pages layer to Edit Linked. When I selected that, I was able to delete the unwanted layer and that seems to have fixed the problem, except that it deleted a couple of lines of text further on. Not a big issue. I can easily find those in my original RFT file and replace. Many thanks! 

I would love to know what caused this, though! I haven't used Affinity Publisher a lot, but I have typeset a full novel before and never had any problems like this.

[Oufti]

15 hours ago, RainbowsC said:

I tried the Flow Option and it still causes the text to overwrite.

Flow option was only suggested to remedy to the orphaned subheadings.  

For the double text frames, you've found it apparently.  
(Sometimes, an unwanted text frame appears on the page itself, doubling the one on the Master Page, or a second Master Page is applied over the first one, and this causes strange things… Analysis of the Layers panel helps to sort out where is the culprit — no matter if it resulted from something we've unwillingly done or from an unexpected behaviour of Affinity.
I'd love to be able to tell you it happens in this situation, when you do this or that — but for me it still remains a little bit uncertain. I just know when I'd have to be cautious and what are the symptoms requiring to look more closely what happens in the Layers panel…)

[Old Bruce]

This looks like you have overlapping Text Frames, at least 2.

To turn them off you'll need to right click on the Master Page in the  Layer panel and choose Edit Detached.

I would check the construction of the Master Page "Main pages".