Changing margins adds a couple hundred unwanted pages

[CDehdashti]

I'm a beginner, but used to work in PageMaker years ago, so I didn't think this would be hard. Laying out my book has mostly been a breeze, but I need to change the margins and when I do so, somehow my first page ends up on page 220 or so. I've been messing around with this all day, removing page breaks, changing the styles for everything, Googling about adjust layout. I've tried changing the margins in the master pages, in all the pages by selecting the pages, in the main doc...every which way.

But nobody else seems to have this exact issue. 

Any thoughts? Thank you.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Just a stab in teh dark: This sounds like you might have a "Keep" setting on one or more lines of text or a paragraph style that is making text jump to a new page because your margins have changed. Try this: "Select All" the text, and then go to "Keep Options" (will be at the end of the ribbon, or in the submenu on the Paragraphs panel). If the "Keep With Next" is not 0, type that in there and see if anything changes.

[CDehdashti]

Thanks for the idea--it's one I hadn't heard of before and nothing else is working. I finally found Keep Options, but it's grayed out. I'll ask someone to look at that though. 

[CDehdashti]

Okay, I got to the Keep Options and it is set at zero when all text is selected. Under that there's the "2 lines" thing but I think that's the normal orphan/widow control. I think I can rule that out, so that's progress, right? I hope a guy I know can help me solve this next week in person, but still open to ideas.

[jane-e]

Hi

That’s a challenging one with the information provided. Is the text all in one story?

• What, if anything, do you see in the Story Editor?
• What happens if you select all of the text (Type tool) > Copy > paste to a new document with the correct margins?

~ Jane