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Thanks for that clarification, @Leo1. It helps me understand what you meant.

And no, those boxes aren't new. They've been there for a long time.

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4 hours ago, NNN said:

This way you can lost all local formating (bold, italic...).

Yes, but in my workflow, I import the pdf and need to have the unformatted text. I copy it for instance the text to PowerPoint, and there I do the formatting. 

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4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

And no, those boxes aren't new. They've been there for a long time.

I never noticed the boxes although I spent a lot of time, on trying to solve the problems. In addition I have searched the Internet and the Affinity forum and looking at a lot of Youtube movies. @walt.farrell Anyhow I am glad it is solved, and I have also found the boxes.

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The ability to merge different text frames into a single text frame has existed in Adobe Illustrator for decades. How is it that Affinity missed this basic function in Designer?

In Adobe Illustrator, you can select text objects, copy, draw a text frame and paste. Voila. All text combined into a single frame. Sometimes, you have to manually add returns after each paragraph.

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13 minutes ago, R. C. Schletty said:

The ability to merge different text frames into a single text frame has existed in Adobe Illustrator for decades. How is it that Affinity missed this basic function in Designer?

In Adobe Illustrator, you can select text objects, copy, draw a text frame and paste. Voila. All text combined into a single frame. Sometimes, you have to manually add returns after each paragraph.

As a work arround you can Copy/Paste the text into Word and then Copy/Paste it into a text frame in Publisher or Designer and Photo.

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2 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

As a work arround you can Copy/Paste the text into Word and then Copy/Paste it into a text frame in Publisher or Designer and Photo.

There's an easier way in Publisher. Link all the text frames, delete all but the last one, and then resize the first to the desired size. You will likely need to add returns to separate the combined text but that's easy.

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The problem with the linking text frames method is that you lose the look of the original content because all the spacing between the frames gets lost. A nicer way might be to export the selected text frames  as a PDF and then open that PDF with "Group lines of text into text frames" selected. Then copy the required text frame back into the original document.

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