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LisaBoojoy
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July 25, 2013
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FrameMaker changing my page layouts by itself

In the last week, FrameMaker has arbitrarily changed the layout of my pages all by itself.

I will be in the middle of writing, and when I scroll or jump up to the first page, suddenly all my pages have a 1.5" left-hand column and the 'Room for sideheads' option has been enabled.

These are docs I've been working with for two years. This has never happened before, and I haven't changed any settings myself.

What's going on?

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LisaBoojoyAuthor
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July 25, 2013

Doh! Sorry.

FrameMaker 11 (11.0.1.382)

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Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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July 25, 2013

What FM version?

> I will be in the middle of writing, and when I scroll or jump up to the first page,

> suddenly all my pages have a 1.5" left-hand column and

> the 'Room for sideheads' option has been enabled.

While typing in-para at page boundary, or end of para, or just navigating pages?

My first guess is that the definitions for standard Master Pages Left and/or

Right have been altered by something, perhaps a format import,

or just data structure corruption.

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LisaBoojoyAuthor
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July 25, 2013

Just navigating pages (minding my own business )

Something's definitely altering the Master Pages, including a custom one for my 'first' page. This is happening while I'm working on Body Pages, and just happens all of a sudden—I haven't done an import of anything, I haven't switched views to Master Pages and back, I haven't done anything but type a bit and probably save the doc. I'll navigate to a different page and suddenly everything's way off to the right and I've got a magically appearing left-hand column.

Bizarre.

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LisaBoojoyAuthor
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July 25, 2013

One other thing...

It just happened again, and this time I noticed that even the text boxes that I use for call-outs have this 1.5" left-hand column.

This is so odd.

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