Glad to help.   Can I ask a favor of you, though? Could you mark the answers to the question that worked for you? That alerts the moderators to archive this and flag it for the "Related conversations" at the top right of this thread for people who have similar issues.   And anytime you need a hand, please feel free to come back to these forums and sound the alarm. There are a lot of sharp folks around here who are happy to help.   Hope the day treats you well,   Randy ... View more

The inconsistent subheadings in the chapters means it's not going to look balanced, whatever you do. You mention not being able to reduce font size, but even a small amount might help to approach this with 2 columns. You could span the main heading and the chapter names, and have two chapters per page, with the final chapter and appendix on the final page. You'd use 5 pages using this approach as opposed to 6. But as I say, it's still going to look a little unbalanced other than the fact that there will be two chapters per page. Personally I don't mind what you have, so long as there are no single lines anywhere which is never desirable. ... View more

As I said right from the beginning, PDF is an easy format to produce from InDesign and a PDF can be read on any device, but the interactivity is very limited. I suggest you don't try to be too ambitious with a PDF version as you'll probably be disappointed. Remember you can't do things with an Interactive PDF that you use to be able to do. ... View more

Hi Simon, just a note: Apply Next Style set with an object style will only work for a text frame that is not threaded to another one.   Regards, Uwe Laubender ( ACP ) ... View more

I tested it out and it works very easily for me. That's a good help! It's a surprising thing though to me that so much can be overwritten but then the "leading" behaves differently. But the case is solved in so far as my practical needs.  ... View more

Thanks for the further inputs.  I'm not an advanced user and my idea was simply to share a possible solution to a problem I have seen others mention. I did not mean to suggest people should do manual formatting in general but simply to use the [Basic Paragraph Style] for troubleshooting purposes.    ... View more

The problem is that I think it looks bad to have text that ends early on the page. Are you suggesting that I increase the empty space below/around images? In this case that is not an option. Since there is only text in this spread and the image should be in the first spread. ... View more

Thank you. I have watched the video before and it turns out I had done it correctly in most places, but in some places I hadn't set the anchor correctly. So for a few days, I thought the anchored objects were static. All set now! ... View more

Your answer helped me pin it down. Inside my text frame, I have separate frames with quotes. Now I have just placed the Vancouver references in the primary text frame. I'm sure with the Jedi answer that it could be done the other way, but I'll just keep it simple for now.  ... View more

>> The anchor must always be before/above the actual graphic with the text wrap. @simon5CD0 Please, pardon me. I don't found that you're try to use it anchor object not as in this quote. For me this thing was in mind automatically. And you won't never find this without "play".  ... View more

Yes, of course. I had your file on one screen while trying to set up my solution on the other screen. It looked to me like the object style was not active in your document, but I'm not very experienced with Indesign as you can tell.   These graphics occur just a few times and with no clear pattern so I don't think it's relevant here to try to do it all at once, I'll just apply it where necessary and it looks good now.   The object style solution might be relevant for me with the 2nd type of graphic for longer text paragraphs that need to get attention with a colored box.  Thanks again ... View more

as someone told me: there are many ways to do each thing in InDesign. So many ways, @simon5CD0! As I tell my students, my job is to know all of them. Your job is to just pick one and stick with it. 😊   ~Barb ... View more

Hi @simon5CD0:   Yep, keep options was my first thought. Glad you were able to locate the setting and disable it.    ~Barb  ... View more

Hi Simon:   Personally, I ensure that my clients sign off on paper size, margins and columns for the first chapter of a book prior to laying out the subsequent chapters. I've never had to update those properties for multiple chapters in a book, so I've never encounted this IRL.    ~Barb  ... View more

If it's Vancouver style - then can you can use Endnotes? https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/how-to/add-endnotes-indesign.html#:~:text=To%20insert%20a%20new%20endnote,text%20on%20the%20Endnotes%20page.   However, for Book files Endnotes are not supported, for some reason.   There's a script here https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/end-of-book_notes.html   Seems like what you need is the script to extract all the notes into a single document.  The above script might do the trick for you. Not really sure how this will work out for you.      ... View more

Thanks for the clarification. I thought in with your first post that you were a new user hence my answer and link to Barb's post. ... View more

Thank Barb. That part I had actually figured out (important to celebrate the small successes).   But the problem remains with the tables: If I import the document with all formatting removed, I can apply my table style just fine.   BUT if I place the text keeping the formatting and follow your "favorite" approach described in the article above, it doesn't work.   So for now I am important my document and set it up. Then in a separate indd importing my docx and then copying the tables between documents. Very primitive but nothing I have tried has allowed me to format the word tables with indesign table styles ... View more

The short answer is yes, use primary frames on the master pages.   Note: master page are not primary frames—primary frames are added to the master pages and designated as primary frames. Master pages are then assigned to the body pages which allows you to access the primary frames from the body pages.   I'm not seeing a good explanation on how to do this on Adobe's Helpx pages, so here is a post that explains how they work from another one of our regular forum contributors. https://creativepro.com/indesign-basics-primary-text-frames/   ~Barb    ... View more

well. you can created an object style for a text frame and apply it to frames that need a different margin. really need to see what you are doing .. there is a 100000 ways of doing things and other here will show you other ways of doing it.   we can only go by what you tell us. show us when you get there?   ... View more

I think this is not an unique post on uservoice, - https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/37332040-choose-the-language-of-the-interface - add your voice here and add all who read this and need it! ... View more

Thanks for the inputs. I seem to have hit upon a breakthrough here. I started a new document which I have done many times, but this time I was a bit more careful in what I inserted and saved different versions during the editing.   The first time I saw the font corrupt was right after copying a rectangle element from another document to the active master page of the new document. Simply going ctrl+z to before inserting it made the font fix itself. I then drew the rectangle from scratch instead of pasting it and haven't had the corruption problem since.   So in my case, it seems there was something about that graphic, even though it was a simple drawing. That's a bit of a loose solution but my suggestion for others would be to simply go back and forth with ctrl+z / ctrl+shift+z and see when things change - because it might not be entirely logical when they do change.  ... View more