Configuring Master pages with overflow text

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What I need is fairly simple.  I've created a page with a primary text box. The master page contains the text box, so all new pages will contain a text box the same size and placement.  When I ADD A NEW PAGE, I need for it to automatically be threaded to the previous page.  In other words, all new pages will have their text boxes threaded to the previous page (to solve overflow texting).

Can I configure the master page to have this attribute?  If not is there a command which will thread all pages in a doc?

Big problem!  I appreciate any help!

[Guest · Accepted solution]

You don't need to add a new page.

With a primary text frame InDesign will automatically create as many new pages as required.

As you watch the Pages panel when pasting the content, you can see that InDesign is pondering for a moment and then creating the new pages.

Fenja

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OK!  It performs well that way.  I guess my initial premise was wrong.  I wanted to create a doc with 20 empty pages which would all have their primary text frames linked.  That's not possible, right?  Indesign will only add one linked page at a time?

[Derek Cross]

Placing text using the primary text frame and pressing Shift will create the linked pages you need.

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Pls clarify your last staement, Derek.  "Placing text using the primary text frame and pressing Shift will create the linked pages you need"

Is this what you mean:  Suppose I have a page with a primary text frame and the frame contains too much text.  Then I should hold the shift key and create a new page in the Pages panel.

I do that but the new page is not created with a text frame linked to the previous page.

[Derek Cross]

I'm saying Placing (say) a Word document.

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Actually, now that I've tried it, my pages are not added automatically, ie when text overflows from a page, a new page is not created.  I've tried setting Smart text Refow to both End of Story and End of Do and neither makes it happen.  Pls see this image: saturday — imgbb.com

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MORE INFO:  I'm using FACING PAGES, so when I create 2 new pages they are automatically linked to each other.  They just don't link to new spreads as I create them.

[rob day]

MORE INFO:  I'm using FACING PAGES,

Your document is set up as facing  pages but your masters are not 2-page spreads, so I think that's creating your problem. Here I can see your masters are single pages:

When you use Primary Frames with Smart Text Reflow you don't have to manually link but the masters need to be spreads with the primary frames threaded.

To get the reflow to work set up your EVEN-Master as a spread and confirm that the text Frames are Primary—when a primary frame is selected it has an icon with an arrow:

Then duplicate the EVEN spread, rename its prefix, and make any desired edits. Here I've changed the margins and text frame dimensions

Now If I add text to the end of the flow the pages will automatically be added if that's the preference. And from there I can drag and drop masters and the primary frames will update:

Also, do you really need two masters? Couldn't it be one master spread with the left page the even layout and the right page as the odd layout?