Book module Photo Text template problem
I am using an M1 Mac and the current LrC 12.0 (but the problem I am having has been for a long time). In the Book module I am having a problem that I have been tearing my hair out over. 🙂 In the Photo Text panel I created a text template and saved it with a name. I can select the template I created in the Photo Text panel. It works and does what I want. The problem is that I have to do this for every single page, one by one (select the page, select my photo text template, select the next page, select my template, etc.). If I select all the pages using Cmd-A and then select the template it will only work for the first photo so I still have to one by one select the template for each page.
Okay, now that I gave the basic problem above, let me give some more info and background. I also have a photo page template I created and have it selected in the Auto Layout panel. It works and does what I want. When I enter the Book module and have a bunch of photos I can click on Auto Layout using my photo page template and it creates the book the way I want pulling captions from the Caption field of the photo metadata. The problem is the text template I mention above is not used. I cannot find a way to have it already selected and used since before I do Auto Layout the Photo Text panel is grayed out. I want it to be used by default.
Now some further info and background. Up until a few months ago I had been using LrC on various Windows PCs for the last 11 years or so starting with Lr 4. I spent months in 2019 trying to get this all working properly with Auto Layout. I created my photo page template, photo text template, and with great effort got everything set up to work properly. As we all know, Adobe documentation, videos, Lightroom Queen, etc. info on the Book module while good at a basic level does not get into many of the nooks and crannies so I spent lots of time experimenting, searching on the internet, piecing clues together, etc. to get it all working the way I wanted.
Since 2019 I have created about a dozen photo books using my templates. Then a few months ago I switched to an M1 Mac. Mostly the transition has been fairly smooth. I have used LrC with no problem on it, but I had not made use of the Book module since the transition. Recently though I went into the Book module to start a new book. Even though months ago I had transferred my last Windows LrC catalog to the Mac I discovered that my book setup, templates, etc. were missing. 😞 I had mistakenly thought that all I had to transfer over was the catalog. Anyway, I have recreated it all on the Mac now after weeks of difficulty working on and off on it until I became so frustrated and took a break for a few days or a week. I had forgotten all the pieces and steps I had went through over a period of months in 2019. It was all working on my Windows PC for the last several years. I have booted up my old PC and carefully examined the LrC book module while doing the same on my Mac. All seems to be the same except for this one problem with the Photo Text template.
It seems the only part that I have not been able to get working is what I wrote about above with the Photo Text template. How can I get it to always be selected when I click on Auto Layout (particularly when I have the page layout I created selected? Somehow in 2019 I apparently figured it out, but after the last few weeks I cannot figure it out again. Help!
Lastly allow me to apologize to some of you who dislike rather long, detailed, carefully explained, precise questions. 🙂 I try to give detail and information in order to help the few people who actually know about this stuff so that they may be able to help me. If you need even more information then just ask.
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