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Lordrhavin
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February 1, 2024
Question

A way to show text-frame contents?

  • February 1, 2024
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Is there a way in indesign to show all textframe-contents in a non-formated way?

I have lots of textframes with data-connections like this {{219872193:IRD}} and formating. Those data-tags will be replaced by a skript fom a database. Sometimes, those formating is in sizes and fonts that cant display the data-tag, because the resulting text will be sometimes just a single symbol in a special font.

Is there a way to have all text-frames show their content in either a way that the text flows outside the frame (like excel's cell-content does) and/or have them all show their text in a defined font (1pt system for example), so I can zoom in and edit contents?

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Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 1, 2024

Edit > Edit in Story Editor (Cmd/Ctrl+Y)

Mike Witherell
brian_p_dts
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 1, 2024

Have you tried looking at the content in Story Mode?