Automatically threading empty text frames (autoflow?)

[Sorontar]

Designing a document I create 10 new pages and then click once at the right bottom corner of the last textframe and then click at the top corner of the next pages margin to create new threaded text frame and then repeat for every new page one. 
Can I somehow autoflow and fill all empty pages with threaded text frames.
I know how how it works very well when I have more text than fits into current frame. Can I do something similar or ease the process. Maybe make some textframes in master pages?

[Sorontar]

I am having pair of master pages threaded text boxes. After adding new pages I can override all master page items and I get same pairs everywhere and now only have to click once per spread and dont have to hit upper corner of the margin.
That is pretty good already.

[Randy Hagan]

You can make it a two-click process, provided you're willing to use one parent page style to fill in the blanks, so to speak.

• Create a two-page document using your most prevalent parent page style
• Use the File>Place... menu command to get your copy and load it into the Paste Gun. Place it on the first page.
• Click on the Frame Exit Point (the box with the red + sign in it) to pick up the remainder of the text that didn't fit the first page. The Place Gun will look like it did when you placed the first frame of text.
• Navigate to the second page, and hold down the shift key. You'll notice that the Place Gun changes to a squiggly line with an arrow point at the end.
• You're now set to Autoflow text into your InDesign document. While still holding down the shift key, Place the text in the second page. InDesign will fill the second page. If there's still text to place, it will create a third page and fill it with text too. Still more text to place? It'll create the fourth page, fifth page, etc. until all the text is placed.

This starts a simple page manufacturing process. Like punching out Chevy fenders. It works slick and simple.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[Sulaco]

If you hold [Shift] while placing text, InDesign will create new text frames and pages until it runs out of text. It won't work when you are creating empty text frames however. I suppose you could use a dummy text that you remove after you finished creating the text frames...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Why do you need to create blank / empty pages? 

[Randy Hagan]

I can't entirely speak for the original poster, but often you'll create blank pages for book production because you want to ensure, say, that the next chapter always starts on a right-hand page. If the previous chapter ends on a right-hand page, that would require a blank left one to follow and keep everything copacetic. Some folks like to account for those possibilities from the get-go.

Also, commercial printing may require you to fill a signature to fill a page form — e.g. 8-up, 16-up, 64-up, etc. Some book designers choose to create a page count to fill the signature before laying out the book, then later shuffle the blank pages to mask evidence of the crime.

Randy

[Randy Hagan]

Also, magazine and newspaper folks do this all the time. The business side determines the page count based on advertising sales, and the editorial team is then expected to fill the space above the ad line. This is where the cynical expression "All the news that fits" comes from.

Randy

[Sorontar]

My books will be created paragraph by paragraph and I have no long text to autoflow. If I reach the end of the page I would have to create 1 more page and then thread it my last page to the new page. Pretty tedious. So I rather create 20 new pages and complete all the threading beforehand.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

https://creativepro.com/make-indesign-add-pages-automatically-as-you-type/

[Peter Kahrel]

I would go for @Sulaco's idea. It's pretty straightforward.

[Sorontar]

It is all cool, but I don't have any text to autoflow, but I still need lot of empty threaded pages that I fill later paragraph by paragraph. Would be coll if text does not fit then it automatically creates new pages in Microsoft Word style.

[Sorontar · Accepted solution]

I got new idea. I  can create very long dummy text that always sits at the end of my content. So every time I am out of the pages I can autoflow like 20 new pages. And this dummy text is made of 20 page breaks and nothing else 😄