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jeank97731398
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December 9, 2018
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Text disappears when placing object inside

  • December 9, 2018
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Have watched a handful of tutorials - and read some articles, not able to fix this. Any advice?
Thanks

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winterm
winterm
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December 9, 2018

What kind of object? Copied to clipboard? Inside what? Into text frame, containing some text? Which is selected with Selection tool? Using Paste Into command?

If so, that’s perfectly normal and expected behavior.

As a starting point, you should switch to Text mode (select Type Tool) and click somewhere in your text where you want that object to be inserted, and use plain Paste.

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jeank97731398Author
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December 9, 2018

Hi. It is inside the text frame - This is what I have done. I am working with a large heavy text - 72pt. and tried both selecting the text and pasting the object inside - and as another tutorial mentioned putting the cursor at the beginning of the text and then selecting paste for the object. When I insert the picture - the text goes missing. I am a little confused by this - was not sure if it's a layer I have to bring forward? Or if there is another step that these tutorials are not mentioning after. The pasted object is an image that was saved to my computer. I have also tried an option that was mentioned for disabling the text wrap but I get the same result

winterm
winterm
Legend
December 9, 2018

You shouldn't use Paste Into here, just plain Paste, with cursor put in a text (paste inside is not an ID terminology).

I bet it's something really simple, hard to tell without any screenshot. Maybe your inserted pic is just too big for the frame, and your big text goes overset? Do you see red overset sign? After inserting object, are you able to see that missing text in Story Editor? (Edit > Edit in Story Editor).

Instead of further guessing, if you're new to this technique, maybe worth to try first with the sample text and object of a smaller sizes, and in a bigger text frame? Just to see how it's working, and to get used to it, and catch nuances?

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