text disappears from frame

[rschlegel]

I am laying out a book with 2 colums on a page. Sometimes, when I drag a column text frame over to a vacent column with no text frame, the text in the frame on the other side of the vacant column disappears. What's going on and how do I fix this?

[Steve Werner]

Does this occur every time you move a text frame to a vacant column? Can you create a screen captures of the way the book looks before and after you make that move to share with us?

[rschlegel]

This only occurs occasionally.

[Steve Werner]

There could be some subtle corruption in the document. You might try saving it as IDML (File > Save As > InDesign CS4 or Later [IDML]. Then reopen it in InDesign and see if the problem goes away.

[Bill Silbert]

Select the text frame that has the disappearing text and go into the Text frame Options dialog (Object>Text Frame Options) and select the option to "Ignore Text Wrap". If it's just a matter of an object somewhere on the spread having Text Wrap applied to it then selecting the ignore option will take care of it.