Overset text Problem (Was "Unset text")

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January 22, 2022
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Hi, I'm Alex. I have some troubles with unset text. I have this small red plus box in the lower part of the page, but when I try to click on it and than aplyed text to another page to empty it, it didnt aply anything. So I dont know if it is empty or if its there another problem with it. I tryed to continue on more pages but nothing change. Red box is still there, and no text in it. Could you please help me with it ?

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @Alexandra22779675iotm :

Continuing visually with Peter's suggestions, I would suggest returning to Story Editor and select everything from 6.1.5 to the bottom of the story and:

1. Make sure No Break is unchecked in the Control Panel menu. (No – or ✓)

2. Then open Keep Options from the same menu and remove any instructions that may not allow paragraphs to break across pages.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Alexandra22779675iotmAuthor

Participant

Thank you all for the great advices, they helped me a lot.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Have a look via the useful (and perhaps underused): Edit > Edit in Story Editor to see if there's any overmatter or maybe some unwanted "carriage returns".

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Alexandra22779675iotmAuthor

Participant

Thank you really much. I find out where is the problem, but I don't understand what actually hapenned there, because text seems to bee completely okey. Could you maybe tell me what could cause this?

Peter Spier

Community Expert

In situations like this it is usually some sort of problem with the text in that line being too long to fit in the width of the text frame or column.

This can be caused by a variety of different things. Commonly it is an incorrect use of No Break which users sometimes mistake for no hyphenation. If the line cannot break even between words and is longer than the sapce is wide it will forever remain overset, no matter how many more frames are added.

This looks to me like the problem you have, but it could be other things as well. Paragraph Keep options can also cause overset text when InDesign finds it impossible to honor them.

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