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Pasted Text does not Flow to Succeeding Page(s)

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December 22, 2016
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I just pasted some text from an external text editor into my open inDesign document, and was surprised to observe that that the text failed to flow onward into the next page. Could one of you please show me what setting(s) might need to be changed, to fix this.

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rob day

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Could one of you please show me what setting(s) might need to be changed, to fix this.

Look at Preferences>Type>Smart Text Flow. With Smart Text on anything pasted into a Primary Text Frame or Master text frame will automatically add new pages

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JackAuthor

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When I opened Preferences | Type, I found that Smart Text Reflow had already been checked. When I looked at its sub-properties, I changed the selection after "Add Pages to” from "End of Story” to “End of Section”.

Then tried again. All text again piled up in the current page.

tks,

jwc

Barb Binder

Community Expert

From Thread text among frames in Adobe InDesign :

By default, Smart Text Reflow is limited to master text frames — text frames that are on a master page. If the document includes facing pages, master text frames must appear on both left and right master pages, and the master text frames must be threaded for Smart Text Reflow to work.
You can change settings to allow pages to be added or removed when working in text frames that aren’t based on master pages. However, a text frame must be threaded to at least one other text frame on a different page for Smart Text Reflow to work.

To see how to thread on the body pages, take a look at my first response.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Or,

Switch to the Selection tool (the black arrow ) and click on the overset icon in the bottom right of the page to load the text cursor, and navigate to the next page.

Click at the top of the next page to place the text. Or, if there is a lot of text to place, Shift+click to autoflow the remainder of the story.

That said, you are better off using File > Place to bring text in from Word. You have better control over the conversion than if you use cut and paste.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Anonymous

Autoflow:

Copy/Paste: Draw the first text frame and paste the text.

Click with the arrow tool (V) on the + symbol of the first text frame, press & hold the shift key and click on the next position.

Or use the File > Place command with the same keyboard shortcut.

See here for the possible options: Thread text among frames in Adobe InDesign

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