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Eve.2
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June 30, 2023
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How to ungroup merged columns/ margins

  • June 30, 2023
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Hi everyone. I need help. I am working on a two-column InDesign document, however, something that I do not know happened and the text boxes in both columns on most pages seem to be grouped and I can not move only one to adjust it to fit in the way I want. Can any one help me? 

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity Expert
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June 30, 2023

Not a lot of information, but it sounds like you have two-column frames spanning the width of the page. You can change the number of columns in the Text Frame Options dialog of the Object style applied to the frames to affect all of them at once, or you can do it one at a time by chaning the count in the control panel or opening the Text Frame Options dialog from a right click on the frame.

You'll then need to adjust the with of the frames to one column and add a second frame to the page, and finally, re-thread the text through the new frames.

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Eve.2Author
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June 30, 2023

Actually, I realized that the text boxes//object are grouped however, I can not ungroup because the group or ungroup icons are greyed and can not work. Is there a way to fix that, then that way I can easily ungroup the text boxes and the problem will be fixed. 

 

 

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Eve.2Author
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June 30, 2023

 

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