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Even the “Start Paragraph” choice (another likely suspect) found in this pane was set to the default “Anywhere.”
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Since it can’t show them all at once in the same frame, it causes an overset.īut, the Keeps Options in the style were fine, in fact they were at the default settings. It’s easy to create settings so contradictory or impossible that InDesign thinks every paragraph should be “kept” with every other paragraph, for example. It says the paragraph style I need to look at is “Summary H1.” So I double-clicked it in the Paragraphs Style panel.įrom bitter experience, I knew that I should first look in Keep Options. If you look above at the Story Editor screen shot, you can see that it lists each paragraph’s Paragraph Style in the left-hand Info column, even for the overset ones. But how was I supposed to know which paragraph style it used if I couldn’t see it on the page? Well, I could continue checking every suspect menu and dialog box in the program for some sort of weird formatting that had been applied to the “Problems” subhead, or I could do it the easy way by examining the settings in its paragraph style. So in layout view, I turned on hidden characters (Type > Show Hidden Characters) to reveal the telltale break character and zoomed in:Īrgh. My first thought was that my client had inadvertently pressed a keyboard shortcut for a break character right before the word “Problems,” which would force that paragraph and all the rest to the next column, frame, or continent.
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The Info panel provides a word count of the active story - the one where your Type cursor is - and if there’s overset text, the word count is followed by a plus sign and another count of the overset words.ġ719 overset words! Detective Geekness was on the case. I closed the Story Editor, clicked in the story in the layout and opened the Info panel to see exactly how much was overset. Yes indeedy, plenty of overset text there. (Another benefit of peeking at a story in the Story Editor is that since it doesn’t (can’t) show formatting, text that’s “invisible” in the layout because it’s the same color as the background or has a 0% Opacity - maybe someone’s playing an early April Fool’s joke - will show up clear as day in the Story Editor window.) I clicked with my Type tool inside the last sentence and opened the Story Editor (Edit > Story Editor), which reveals all the text in a story, including text not visible in Layout view because it’s riddled with page breaks or is simply overset. Just to make sure my client wasn’t actually crazy - hey you never know - I had to verify that there was, indeed, missing text. Where did the text go? It was driving my client crazy. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. There are no funky things going on like frames with huge text wraps applied or anything, and no layers are hidden or locked. This is what it looked like, zoomed out:Įven though at this view scale it’s greeked text (the grey bars), you can see from the lines connecting the red text frames (View > Show Text Threads) that there is plenty of room in the first frame for more text following the last paragraph, and in the empty one that’s threaded to it on its right. I opened the file and went to the last page that had visible text. I tried looking at the text threads but still can’t seem to find the text, although I know it’s there.
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The subhead “Problems” and all the text following it seems to have disappeared completely.
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I managed to lay out the text in a chapter the way I wanted but when I got to the end I started having trouble with the questions and problems text. A client of mine sent me a problem child InDesign file - a legacy file in which she needed to move threaded text frames around and modify them - and this question: