Preserving Microsoft Word Styles Using Place Tool

[lolajl]

I have a document that I went through to reformat using Microsoft Word, like such. 

However, when I place into Affinity, it ends up looking like this:

Why is this happening? Will I have to do the formatting all over again in Publisher?

[Old Bruce]

41 minutes ago, lolajl said:

... when I place into Affinity, it ends up looking like this:

The Publisher version has all the paragraphs centred. Perhaps that is coming in from the Word document. In the Word document it looks like headings are centred and the rest of the text is ragged right, or unjustified to the left.

Does the Word document use two paragraph styles or did you just override everything?

[lolajl]

30 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

The Publisher version has all the paragraphs centred. Perhaps that is coming in from the Word document. In the Word document it looks like headings are centred and the rest of the text is ragged right, or unjustified to the left.

Does the Word document use two paragraph styles or did you just override everything?

Good catch ... apparently the base style is centered and the other style was based on that. Looks like I'll need to go back in and fix these. 

[lolajl]

One other question ... when Microsoft styles are carried over, is it normal to have these included with the default Affinity Publisher styles?

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, lolajl said:

One other question ... when Microsoft styles are carried over, is it normal to have these included with the default Affinity Publisher styles?

You only get to see the default Affinity Text Styles in a newly-created document that you haven't worked in.

In your case, with an existing document that you've Placed a Word document into, yes, it's normal that your document now has a mixture of the previous Text Styles for the document, and the newly-added Text Styles from your Word document.