Body text boxes move when I delete a page

Good question, Willi. I’m thinking a text box would have to be placed on a master page deliberately because I don’t see a way to create a master page that automatically has a workable text box. If you manually place a text box on a master page, there is a dialog box on the edge you can “click to make this story the master’s primary text flow” but even so, how do you go to a normal page and add text without creating another text box? The use of master pages is for elements that are fixed, like folios, graphic elements, and page numbers, which can be overridden when needed on individual pages.

Amy, have you looked at your layers to see if you have more than one text box on each page? How are you adding text to individual pages? Through the place tool from a text document like Word? You may have to adjust the text boxes to the new master page margin guides on each page. Or, if you saved a version of your file before you made the change to the size of your master page text boxes, you could go back to that version and try turning on the “adjust layout” and “adjust locked content” on the margin settings before making the change. The only other thing I can think of is to try selecting the pages that are affected and choose to “override all master page items” and then create and apply a new master page and adjust the entire layout. But the text boxes you show in your screenshot makes me think nothing is going to change the position of those boxes now automatically. Unless there is some script that would tell the document to place all or selected text boxes at a specific X/Y location on each page? Again, I’m not able to recreate exactly what you are experiencing so please take my suggestions as wild guesses! Please let us know what you figure out!

Thank you! I've never tried importing text that way, but I will next time. This is what it is looking like for me right now: on my master page, each text box is set within the margins.