Text overflowing early to next page leaving a blank spot

Question

I have an academic journal I am working on that has a table of contents. Today when I refreshed it's contents I got more than half of the content overflowing onto the next page. I will need it to overflow but I can't figure out why it doesn't let the text go to the end of the text box before overflowing on the next page.

The text box on the initial page goes down to the bottom margin so there is plenty of room for text. I don't see any other items on that page. The previous volume that I did didn't have this problem (although there were less articles and they all fit on one page). I tried deleting any space that may be in the text and using a mix of hard and soft enters but nothing will make the text on the second page move up

I have seen this in some articles but usually doing a soft enter lets me manuver the text to the correct place. I imagine it is some setting in the text box but can't find anything that makes a difference.

This is auto-generated text using the table of contents options in Indesign. I have done the layout on this journal for the past 8 years using this same template and never saw this.

Any ideas on what it could be?

James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted Answer

This problem almost invariably comes from "keep with" settings for one or more of the paragraph styles involved.

Review the paragraph styles in that entire block. Under "Keep Options," make sure you don't have any unintended/unwanted settings there. What will happen is that in an effort to follow these rules, ID will pull paragraphs to a next page or frame and leave that 'inexplicable' gap.

Note that the "Keep With Next" setting must be 0 to have no effect. It looks as if it's controlled by the checkbox above, but it's not. If set to 1 or more, it will exert that 'keep' behavior.

(And, community note, I'd swear this new release has un-indented that item, which makes it a little clearer that it's standalone, but it still needs a bit of work to elimate confusion like this.)

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

Looking at your screenshot - title of the article is split - part has been moved to the next page, right ?

Can you tun on - menu TYPE:

and check if you have this "v" at the end of the line:

This "v" is made using Enter on the NumPad - not Shift+Enter.

Or maybe you have some other "break" - Column / Page / Frame ?

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