Dotted text frames, cannot type in them

Question

Hello everyone,On a two-page spread, I have drawn text frames, two per page. As I want to use this layout for most of my pages, I have copied the spread in the Parent Pages part of the Pages panel, thus creating a new spread of Parent Pages.Then I inserted two new pages based on that recent new spread, but the new pages in question show my four text frames with dotted lines only, and I cannot click into them to start typing text.When I go back to their Parent Pages, the text frames are dotted lines as well, but the borders of the text frames become solid/normal when I hover over them with the black arrow, I can select them and type in them. In the regular pages based on those Parent Pages, I cannot select them, they remain just dotted.I must have done something wrong… Advice will be very much appreciated, thanks in advance.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Answer

Items on parent pages are locked by default to prevent movement or editing.

You can either Cmd/Cntl-Shift-click on each item to unlock it

OR

You can select all the desired pages in the Pages panel and right-click on one of the pages. Select “Override All Parent Page Items”.

Tip: if there are some parent page items you want to override and some you don’t, put them on separate layers. For example, Parents-locked and Parents-Override. Lock the appropriate layer and even the override options won’t affect those items.

(If this doesn’t make sense, let me know and I’ll go into more detail.)

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