I guess I am doing something terrbly wrong. On importing text into text frames in Affinity Publisher 2.5.3 the imported text looses all settings for bold or italic characters - no matter which fonts I am using. I am simply dragging a word file onto a text frame and all the settings for bold or italic are gone. How can I preserve them? Shouldn't they be preserved automatically? At least that is what all the tutorials show. Help, please!
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Affinity Publisher looses bold and italic settings on text import
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FWIW, I collect and correct primarily in MS Word, and use Publisher (still 2.4.0.) for "pre-press" (how quaint). I usually use File > Place. I did a quick test with drag-n-drop, and the .docx came in correctly, with several fonts, mixed bold, underline, italic, strikethrough, and bullet lists.
I can't speak to v. 2.5.3, but if the loss of formatting is not a bug, then I wonder if there came a setting to default imported text to Source-Formatting or Destination-Formatting. MS Word has that choice when importing/pasting text. Word's style sheets can become quite a mess, and sometimes it better to clear them all and start over, so, hypothetically, such a setting might be useful -- if one knows it's there.
I can't speak to v. 2.5.3, but if the loss of formatting is not a bug, then I wonder if there came a setting to default imported text to Source-Formatting or Destination-Formatting. MS Word has that choice when importing/pasting text. Word's style sheets can become quite a mess, and sometimes it better to clear them all and start over, so, hypothetically, such a setting might be useful -- if one knows it's there.
File > Place continues to function in AP 2.5.3 as in version 2.4.0 pointed out by @ipaqrat . This represents probably "good practise" because paragraph styles in the Word document will be transferred and kept under their names in AP.I am currently not on my Mac so I can’t check for drag&drop into text frames.
Thanks for your reply. It gets even more strange as I have tried to import the word file in various (but widely used) fonts. So, e.g., the most original file was set in Courier – and it worked fine. But as soon as I changed the font in the Word file to say Times New Roman before importing it, it lost all italic, bold, ad so on markings. – So you may ask why I changed the original font in the Word file. The reason. was that I once got irresolvable issue with importing text from a file set in a Garamond font, and the only way to avoid the error markings was to change the font in the primary Word file. Therefore I am trying to change the font to some very common fonts to avoid such hassles.
I am sorry, I have to correct myself. I think I caused the problems myself. When I saved the changed Word file this morning Word asks me to activate the compatibility mode for the file – something I must have overlooked yesterday. Now everything seems to work as used and intended again. Sorry for this. And again thanks for your help!
Don’t worry. Lots of native speakers seem unable to tell the difference between loose and lose. Not everyone is a wordsmith. I assume it’s a rather common error that presses a raw nerve with Septercius (as it does me, I must own up), hence his perhaps somewhat undiplomatic addition to this thread. If his post proves useful to you, however, that’s a good outcome, in addition to your figuring out the answer to your software problem.