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Cannot find images in overset text (Cannot show link: The selected item is hidden in overset text.)

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December 18, 2022
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Hi All - another newbie question -

In one of my documents, when I open the links panel, it shows 4 TIFF images that are "OV" (overset). I want to delete these.

When I click on one of the "OV" (to display the image location so that I can delete it) I get the following message:

Cannot show link: The selected item is hidden in overset text.

I cannot figure out how to find the overset text/TIFFs so that I can delete them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Laubender

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"So I still cannot find the overset text and the images that are there. They don't seem to show up in Story Editor."

Hi @DavidCharl ,

what does InDesign's Preflight tell you?

Is there overset text? If yes, you can navigate to the overset text frame, start up the Story Editor when the overset text frame is selected. Scroll down to the point where "Overset" begins.

Do a screenshot of this and post it here.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

DavidCharlAuthor

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This is page 3 (page number is covered up by footnote 2). Both overset texts shown in the Preflight panel indicate the identical "1286092 characters".

I did notice the red plus sign in the lower right of the text frame and was wondering what that is. The text on page 3 just flows to page 4 so I'm wondering where those 1286092 characters are? Document is over 700 pages.

Thanks so much for your help

DavidCharlAuthor

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If I click the red plus sign and make a text frame outside of the page, then one of the overset text frames on page 3 disappears from the list on the Preflight panel and the number of errors goes to one overset text frames. Then if I repeat, the other one goes away - so now I have two text frames outside of the page, no errors in the Preflight panel.

But ...

I still have the TIFF images in the links panels and then I click on them, one or the other of the outside text boxes is highlighted and selected.

Also - I cannot find any text in the outside text boxes. If I drag either one of them to partially cover the page they return to the Preflight error list with the 1286092 characters.

??

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @DavidCharl:

They look like little gray anchors in Story Editor.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

DavidCharlAuthor

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Thanks so much.

Is there a way to do a text search for that anchor? The documents is about 240,000 words.

DavidCharlAuthor

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To clarify: the document is 600 pages, and so I'm not sure where to even look for the images. The text frame flows over the entire document. When I click on the text frame and go to Edit > Edit in Story Editor I don't see the images.

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