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Can someone please help with this issue I am having with my text box?

Community Beginner ,
Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

I have a table that I am filling out for a small booklet. 

I have 3 columns in this table. The last column has contact info. 

There is still plenty of room to type in this "box" but for some reason, my text is disappearing. 

For example, on the line it says: 

incometax@

And then the rest of the email disappears on the next line but I can't seem to see it anywhere and there is just a lot of white, blank space underneath.

The same thing happens in the next box in the next row and in one of the boxes on the next page. All of the rest of the boxes seem fine and unaffected. 

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Engaged , Feb 21, 2025 Feb 21, 2025

This will commonly happen in a text frame or cell where the word simply won't fit in the space. It still exists - it just doesn't know where to put it, you'll see a little red + icon, which signifies there is overflowed text not showing.

In previous tables I've often had to allocate more space for a column with email addresses for example, or make them a smaller size. Hyphenating email addresses isn't really an option.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

Hard to say without seeing the file. Can you upload it?

I can go through all the "usual suspects", but it's better to see it!

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Engaged ,
Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

If hyphenation is turned off and you have very long email address, it won't break and will show the plus sign. You can see the text in Edit / Edit in Story Editor. Also, if there is a "no break" character style or "keep" settings in the paragraph style, that can bump text out.

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Engaged ,
Feb 21, 2025 Feb 21, 2025

This will commonly happen in a text frame or cell where the word simply won't fit in the space. It still exists - it just doesn't know where to put it, you'll see a little red + icon, which signifies there is overflowed text not showing.

In previous tables I've often had to allocate more space for a column with email addresses for example, or make them a smaller size. Hyphenating email addresses isn't really an option.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 21, 2025 Feb 21, 2025

Just to clarify - red [+] for TextFrames or a red bullet for cells. 

 

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 21, 2025 Feb 21, 2025
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Thank you! This was the issue - I was playing around with it and when I increased the column width, that helped with dispaying the text again. It does look a bit weird because I turned off hypenating but it will have to do.

Thanks everyone for your help!

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