As Alex Baldwin says to himself in Hunt for Red October: Next time, Jack, write a memo! <rimshot> When a master page has a text frame, and then you make pages based on it, the textframe will seem to not be selectable. It will seem as if it is not there (no stroke color, no fill color). Not until you Ctrl+Shift+click with the black Selection tool in the part of the page where the textframe should be will it "over-ride" and become selectable on the local page. Another way the master page textframe awakens on the local page is when you File > Place a Word document and you hover the loaded cursor over the local page. If held over the region of the frame, the loaded text cursor icon will signal a small iconic change, and when you click, the text "over-rides" the textframe onto the local page and fills into it.
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