Overset Text when there is none!

[Faith5C32]

Looking at my preflight panel to check the errors on a multi-page doc. I am getting 2 overset text errors. But when I go to the specified area of the doc, there is nothing. I tried everything - I deleted everything off the spread, and the error still remains. There is nothing locked on the spread. I checked all layers of the documents and even checked the master pages to no avail. What's weird is if I copy and paste the contents of the page to a new doc, the error is gone. I have tried individually deleting all the type boxes and the error remains.

Please help!

[Jumpenjax]

Double check, you do not have an extra space at the end of your paragraph.

[Erin28836701vrm8]

THANK YOU - this resolved my issue. 

[Stephanie See]

This same issue came up for me, and it was saying there was something like 128 overset characters. I tried all of the suggestions in this thread and still wasn't seeing it. The simplest solution I found that worked was to go to Object > Show All on Spread. It turns out there was a hidden text box hiding behind some other elements, so I didn't see it with the other search methods. By showing all on the spread it made the text visible instead of just highlighting the text box.

[Jumpenjax]

You may have a return but no text. Check all ending text boxes for the little red plus box.

[francc1]

This happens a lot for my work. I found the best way to find the hidden text is to: Select all (with Text tool); Copy; Paste into Text Edit. Voilå ... all the text is there. Copy and Paste back into InDesign.

[turquoisequeen]

This worked for me too! Thank you for the tip! 

[LSJohnson]

Thank you. This worked perfectly!

[Brendan5D14]

Excellent that was exactly it! Why is that in the app??? drove me nuts!

[Peter Spier]

Don't blame Adobe. Word always adds an extra blank return at the end of a document...

[francc1]

This happens a lot for my work. I found the best way to find the hidden text is to: Select all (with Text tool); Copy; Paste into Text Edit. Voilå ... all the text is there. Copy and Paste back into InDesign. I also find that if you Paste without Formatting there is less of this issue.

[Damien22667893f5m6]

It's a text box hidden in a sub-layer. Use the Preflight palette to jump to the error page. Then in the Layers palette start opening up the submenus for each of your layers until you find a sublayer that is hidden. Click the eyeball to reveal, and delete or modify the offending text box.

[defaultox3c8thluat9]

I was having a similar problem in that it was showing overst text and my text was disappearing however when I looked in Edit in Story Editor for the life of me I couldn't figure out what was keeping my text from appearing as the text box had plenty of space and no breaks were listed. I finally saw a teeny tiny hidden character that looked liked a down arrow. I removed that and voila, all the text reappeared ond overtext msg was gone. Not sure what I did to add that (it might be a column break). Hope this helps!

[rob day]

[Peter Spier]

Sounds like a column break and you aded it by pressing the Enter key on the Numpad (that's a default keyboard shortcut).