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Document Text Area Overflow Clitch

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Mar 16, 2025 Mar 16, 2025

I'm using InDesign to master PDFs for a work of reference that takes the form of thousands of entries with their headwords in alphabetical order.

To avoid lengthy scrolling when adding a new entry, I've temporarily split the content across four documents named A-D, E-K, L-R and S-Z. Each of them was created with a large number of empty pages, read to receive the text.

Everything works as it should, except when the content exceeds the template's text depth of the last working page of any of the documents. That presents a red + warning sign. When it's double clicked, the cursor changes to a mini text marker, which has to be moved to the top of the following empty page's text area. Again double clicking pastes in the overflow matterial.

As I'm having to do that an awful lot, I wonder whether it's possible to configure Preferences or in some other way automate that procedure, so I don't have to repeat it manually every time. With thanks in advance to any responders.

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Mar 16, 2025 Mar 16, 2025

Does this screenshot help?

 

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Mar 16, 2025 Mar 16, 2025
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@johnr54626971

 

You could do as @BobLevine suggested, but, if I were you - I would rather avoid this option - you'll lose control over your document - and you might end up with a total mess in the order of the TextFrames... 

 

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