Extra text frames in every spread

[tomw3799995]

Hi,

I have searched Google and the forum to no avail as of yet. Every spread of my document has two extra blank text frames. It does not affect print versions of the document but when exported to an epub all of the extra/blank text frames are included at the end of the publication. I can go through and manually delete them to solve the problem but that is tedious. Is there something that I am doing wrong when placing the original word document?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Pariah Burke · Accepted solution]

They're probably the Primary Text Frames on the Master Page. When pouring in your story, you might have neglected to first override the Primary Text Frame on the first page, or you missed the overridden frame. The result was that your Primary Text Frames were missed, making them empty, while all new text frames were added to each page to pay out the story.

[Bill Silbert]

Just to add a thought to what Pariah said. When you create a new document there is the option for a Primary Text Frame in the New Document window. If you don't use them in your documents then you should make sure that option is unchecked.

[rob day]

I can go through and manually delete them to solve the problem but that is tedious.

You probably want to understand why the unwanted text frames are there, but empty text frames can be removed via a script. Something like this AppleScript.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2017"

    tell active document

        try

            delete (every text frame whose content type is text type and contents is "")

        end try

    end tell

end tell