Placing text in Text Box leaves it scrambled to the left

[Angelica Tånneryd]

When I'm placing text from a RTF-document all the text ends up to the left in the text box. If I select the text and click "Align to baseline grid" in the Paragraph setting it all spreads out nicely.

When I create a new document, creates a new Text Box and place the same file in that text box, the text appears as it should be (if I check in the Paragraph settings the "Do not align to the baseline grid" is selected.

What setting have I altered in document 1 (when all text appears on top of each other)?

[Geоrge]

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-line-spacing-control/m-p/1189461#:~:tex....

[Peter Spier]

In Addition to the link George has provided I would say that there is a high probability in the first example that the text has been formatted with a very tight leading value, and you can change that in the paragraph style to correct the problem.

[Angelica Tånneryd]

The thing is that my text box is at a Parent page. When I try to fix the leading value at the parent page (having added some text there to see that it looks good), I save the document, remove the text and then try to place the text there again the leading is back to the number is was from the beginning.

I just want an empty text box at the parent page, so that I can create 11 copies from it and adding different text on the 11 pages.

Can it be the leading setting in the RTF-file that somehow affects it?

[Peter Spier]

Are you "fixing" the leading by adjusting the applied style or by selecting the text and changing the leading value? It sounds like the latter to me, and that would not fix formatting applied on the Parent Page.

You must look at the style you have defined when there is no text in the frame (just an active cursor), and if necessary make corrections there.

It's possible that the formatting is coming in with the .rtf. If you show import options when placing the text you should be able to import as plain unformatted text which would use the style defined in the frame, but would lose any special formatting like bold or italic. It seems unlikely that this is the problem, however if it is not showing in the .rtf outside of InDesign. I wouldn't think that text was set to use leading too small when it was created.

[Geоrge]

>> When I try to fix the leading value at the parent page

You are make big mistake when try it to fix text settings manually. Real American Nindja InDesigner use it always paragraph styles and other types of styles. Forget about manual adjustments, let them fire in hell.

https://youtu.be/b3zIToPMEO4

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/paragraph-character-styles.html#:~:text=Apply%20a%20paragraph....

[Angelica Tånneryd]

Well I am a noob at InDesign and right now I',m so frustraded I feel like the whole app can burn in hell 😈. I'd love to have it so that I don't need any manual fix at all, and I thought that I had managed to do so. But somehow I did something to break it......... Thank you all for you patience with me and trying to help out.

[Peter Spier]

Take a look at your Basic Paragraph Style (possibly the worst thing ever built into InDesign) which is assigned by default to all text that is not assigned a "real" style that you create. Check the leading there, and if it's OK, check the leading value with your text tool active, but no active cursor (that is the default value for all new text) and with an active cursor, but no selection to see if you've accidentally created an override.

Since you say this problem is isolated to a single document, I suspect you've added the leading override accidentally. Defaults are set by making changes with nothing selected. If a document is open, they apply to that document, if no files are open they apply to all new files created after the change.

[Geоrge]

>> possibly the worst thing ever built into InDesign

This is just a marker that publication was done by newbie. 🤣😂😁

I don't see any problems with basic styles. Just needs to add your own styles before doing a work. 

[Geоrge]

To be a noob is not a problem. But if you won't learn software that you are using you will need to give a money to who's know it. True of life. 

Begin with something like that and then return to our forum: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-2022-essential-training

P.S. And never forget to press F1 and read, re-read and read again about features that you aren't knew. 

[jmlevy]

Check the leading. It looks like you have choosen a very small value.

[manal shanableh]

Apply your new formating from character panel first and then from paragraph panel.

create your own styles and apply them.

[Peter Spier]

Character styles are only required where formatting for a portion of the text in a paragraph differs from the base formatting defined in the paragraph style, and they should be as general as possible, such as only making the text bold or italic, whenever possible to keep them as versatile as possible.