Finding "lost" content in overset frames?

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August 5, 2022
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When importing from Word, I often get overflows because of something embedded in the Word document.

Sometimes I can find it by expanding the frame to let the content be seen at its original size.

Is there a better way of doing this?

thanks!

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Correct answer turner111

Bob's got the right answer, but a quick and dirty tactic is to Ctrl-A the text in the frame and set it to a small, tight style (like, usually, Body). That often brings all the text into view by getting rid of large font sizes and space. (Best, usually, to undo that with Ctrl-Z, but sometimes just reapplying a few styles works well, too.)

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Thanks James - in this case, it was a large graphic that was causing the trouble.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @turner111 ,

in case the issue is an anchored graphic frame that is Inline or Above Line anchored and too large for the frame so you are in permanent overset with the text frame, open the Story Editor Window, identify the anchor character that holds the frame and select just the anchor character.

Anchor character selected:

Now after the anchor character is selected a little ExtendScript (JavaScript) script could access the graphic frame from your selected character and changes the anchor position away from Inline or Above Line.

That is very helpful, because after running the script the object should be visible in your text flow:

And of course could be selected to unanchor it for example.

The script code in ExtendScript (JavaScript) is this:

// Anchor character selected in the Story Editor Window:
app.selection[0].pageItems[0].getElements()[0].
anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ANCHORED;

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )