Lightroom Book Module: Custom Pages

I make numerous photo books every year and am always frustrated that I have not found an efficient way of editing text throughout a book.

Ideally, I would like the following text to be standardised:

photo text {small font size}
page text {slightly larger font size}
page number {smaller font size and lighter colour}

The size of the text on the cover and spine would need to be slightly larger.

In order to achieve the required text size/colour/font I have experimented with countless different options in the book settings panel on the right hand side.

I’ve tried:

using presets but the presets constantly revert to default settings
using customised pages but the text settings do not appear to save with the customised page

I therefore have to manually input the text size/colour/font every time I add photo text or page text. This is hugely time consuming and very frustrating. Shouldn’t it be possible to some how save these in settings/presets.

I have found no tutorials that effectively cover the text options when making books. {There are a couple of videos out there but they don’t cover the issues that I have}.

I’ve even found that when chooses a size/colour and font for pages throughout the book, some times the odd page has a totally different look. This means that when proofreading the book every aspect of text be in photo, page or page number has to be carefully scrutinised for consistency. This isn’t ideal. A trustworthy way of saving these setting would be highly beneficial.

Any assistance with savings text presets would be greatly appreciated.

With thanks. ZzdC