Cannot get 1-column text to flow into 3-column text.

[marthaw52882529]

Working on an Indesign 2021 newsletter for an historic society (for 5 years now).

PROBLEM: Several pages of text in its original three-column format reverted to single-column text. EVEN if 3 columns is selected in the Text Frame Options box, the text still runs across/spans the three columns. Text won't separate into multiple columns.

What am I not doing?

Just installed MacOS 11.2.3 Big Sur. Lots of crashing ensued after that installation. Is that the reason?

Help.

[marthaw52882529]

This is the offending InDesign document.

[Migintosh]

The company I work for is still using 2020, so I can't open your 2021 file, but is the text frame itself set to 3 columns? It's easy to mistake a single-column text frame when it's sitting on a document page that has 3-column guides. Here's a screen shot:

The page has 3-column guides.

The top text frame is single-column.

The middle frame is 3-column.

The bottom frame is 3-column with the text set to span all columns. I wonder if this last one is what you have.

[Creamer Training · Accepted solution]

The paragraph style has Span Columns turned on. Change the setting from All Columns to Single Column and the text will flow. (When you do that, you will find a page break before the Balch House heading.)