Adding text boxes to existing threads

[matthewdee]

I can't find a video on how to do this. For this very long book I placed text from a word document into an .indd using autoflow. it worked fine for one column pages but I realized that there needed to be pages with 4 column text boxes ( there are a lot of these) so I got sidetracked and had to add and style the 4 column text. In doing this I broke some links and need to relink so everything flows. If you see the screenshot you will see on one page I have two orphan text boxes and need to remove the link from the previous page as you can see it bypasses the links I need to add. All I need to do is to add the unlinked text boxes to the linked textboxes, I'm sure there is any easy way to do?

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

See if this Help file helps you:

Thread text among frames in Adobe InDesign

[Chad Chelius]

It's probably easiest to stop thinking about the boxes themselves and instead think of the content. Your best bet is to copy the text from one of the orphaned boxes using the type tool, insert the cursor in the flowed text where you want the content to appear, then paste it into the threaded text. From here, it's much easier to break the flowed text into multiple threaded frames the way you want them.