It still doesn't work. Here's my sequence of activity:
I go to another InDesign document and select and copy some text. Doesn't matter what.
Then I go to a new document, go to the master page and, using the rectangle frame tool, I draw out a frame well within the page border. I then go to Page 1 and I can see the new frame as a faint dotted blue outline. It will now of course appear on every page.
I press Ctrl-V to paste and a small text frame appears in the center of the document, full of text and showing overset text. With the Selection tool active I then Ctrl-click on the out port which loads the cursor with text. The small text frame is selected by default so I press Delete to get rid of it.
I now have the loaded cursor with a right-angle top left and and I'm on Page 1. If I now press the Shift key outside the page, the cursor changes so that the right-angle is still there but the up and down curvey arrow is now showing. Now I move the cursor over the page, still with the Shift key pressed.
The cursor does not change, even when I am inside the blue dotted frame that indicates where the master frame is, even when I'm dead center. I am expecting to see the parentheses but they do not appear.
I can't see what I'm doing differently from what you advise.
m5heath wrote:
Then I go to a new document, go to the master page and, using the rectangle frame tool, I draw out a frame well within the page border. |
OK, there's where the problem is. While you can place text into any frame, you are trying to place it into a frame that on the master page is expecting an image or is unaasigned, depening on which of the rectangle tools you used. If you were working on the master page, or if this was a frame on the document page, ID would happily convert it to a text frame without furhter intervention, but apparently not for a master frame that has not been overridden.
Instead of using rectangle or rectangle frame tool, use the text tool to draw a text frame on the master page and it will work just fine.
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