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By default, text you place in InDesign is not linked to the original text file. However, if you select the Create Links
When Placing Text And Spreadsheet Files option in File Handling preferences before you place a file, the name of the text file appears in the Links panel. You can use the Links panel to update and manage the file. When you update a linked text file, any editing or formatting changes applied within InDesign are lost. Because of this risk, linked text files are not automatically updated when the original file is edited. However, you can easily use the Links panel to update content or to unlink (embed) the file.
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• To apply this change to a document, open the document.
• To apply this change to any new document you create, close all documents.
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Choose Edit > Preferences > File Handling (Windows) or InDesign OS).
To create links in placed files, select Create Links When Placing Text And Spreadsheet Files. If this option is turned on, use the Links panel to update, relink, or remove links. If this option is turned off, text files are embedded (not linked).
To unlink (embed) a linked text file, select the file in the Links panel, and then choose Unlink from the Links panel menu.
More Help topics
“ Managing graphics links ” on page 389
“ Convert Word styles to InDesign styles ” on page 202
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Thread text frames
The text in a frame can be independent of other frames, or it can flow between connected frames. To flow text between connected frames (also called text boxes), you must first connect the frames. Connected frames can be on the same page or spread, or on another page in the document. The process of connecting text among frames is called threading text . It is also referred to as linking text frames or linking text boxes .
Each text frame contains an in port and an out port , which are used to make connections to other text frames. An empty in port or out port indicates the beginning or end of a story, respectively. An arrow in a port indicates that the frame is linked to another frame. A red plus sign (+) in an out port indicates that there is more text in the story to be placed but no more text frames in which to place it. This remaining unseen text is called overset text .
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More Help topics
“ Add text to a document ” on page 134
“ Move and resize text frames ” on page 129
Add a new frame to the thread
1 Using the Selection tool , select a text frame, and then click the in port or out port to load a text icon.
Clicking the in port lets you add a frame before the selected frame; clicking the out port lets you add a frame after the selected frame.
2 Position the loaded text icon where you want a new text frame to appear, and then click or drag to create a new text frame.
When the loaded text icon is active, you can perform many actions, including turning pages, creating new pages, and zooming in and out. If you start to thread two frames and change your mind, you can cancel the thread by clicking any tool in the Toolbox. No text will be lost.
Add an existing frame to the thread
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Position the loaded text icon over the frame you want to connect to. The loaded text icon changes to the thread icon.
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3 Click inside the second frame to thread it to the first.
You can add automatic “continued on” or “continued from” jump lines that track threaded stories as they jump from
frame to frame. (See “ Add automatic page numbers for story jumps ” on page
Add a frame inside a sequence of threaded frames
1 Using the Selection tool, click the out port at the point in the story where you want to add a frame. When you release the mouse button, a loaded text icon appears.
2 Drag to create a new frame, or select a different text frame. InDesign threads the frame into the series of linked frames containing the story.
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Unthread text frames
When you unthread a text frame, you break the connection between the frame and all subsequent frames in the thread.
Any text that previously appeared in the frames becomes overset text (no text is deleted). All subsequent frames are empty.
❖ Using the Selection tool, do one of the following:
• Double-click an in port or out port to break the connection between frames.
• Click an in port or an out port that represents a thread to another frame. For example, in a two-framed thread, click either the out port of the first frame or the in port of the second frame. Position the loaded text icon over the previous or next frame to display the unthread icon . Click in the frame you want to remove from the thread.
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To break one story into two stories, cut the text that needs to go in the second story, break the connection between the frames, and then paste the text into the first frame of the second story.
Cut or delete threaded text frames
Whenever you cut or delete text frames, no text is deleted; the text remains in the thread.
Cut a frame from a thread
You can cut a frame from a thread and paste the frame elsewhere. The frame is removed with a copy of the text, but no text is removed from the original story. When you cut and paste a series of threaded text frames at once, the pasted frames maintain their connection to each other, but lose connection to any other frames in the original story.
1 Using the Selection tool, select one or more frames (Shift-click to select multiple objects).
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2 Choose Edit > Cut. The frame disappears, and any text contained in it flows to the next frame in the story. When you cut the last frame in a story, the text is stored as overset text in the previous frame.
3 If you want to use the disconnected frame elsewhere in your document, go to the page where you want the disconnected text to appear and choose Edit > Paste.
Delete a frame from a thread
When you delete a text frame that is part of a thread, no text is deleted: it is overset or it flows into the next frame in succession. If the text frame isn’t connected to any other frame, the frame and text are deleted.
1 To select the text frame, do one of the following:
• Using a selection tool, click the frame.
• Using the Type tool, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac
2 Press Backspace or Delete.
Flow text manually or automatically
Your pointer becomes a loaded text icon after you place text or click an in port or out port. The loaded text icon lets you flow text onto your pages. By holding down a modifier key, you can determine how the text is flowed. The loaded text icon changes appearance, depending on where it is placed.
When you position the loaded text icon over a text frame, parentheses enclose the icon . When you position the loaded text icon next to a guide or grid snapping point, the black pointer becomes white .
You can flow text using four methods:
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Manual text flow
Semi-autoflow by holding down Alt (Windows) or Option
Autoflow by Shift-clicking.
Fixed-page autoflow by holding down Shift+Alt (Windows) or
What it does
Adds text one frame at a time. You must reload the text icon to continue flowing text.
Works like manual text flow, except that the pointer becomes a loaded text icon each time the end of a frame is reached, until all text is flowed into your document.
Adds pages and frames until all text is flowed into your document.
Flows all text into the document, adding frames as necessary without adding pages. Any remaining text is overset.
For a video tutorial on placing and flowing text, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4278_id .
Flow text manually
1 Use the Place command to select a file, or click the out port of a selected text frame.
2 Do one of the following:
• Position the loaded text icon anywhere within an existing frame or path, and then click. The text flows into the frame and any other frames linked to it. Note that text always starts filling the frame at the top of the leftmost column, even when you click in a different column.
• Position the loaded text icon in a column to create a text frame the width of that column. The top of the frame appears where you click.
• Drag the loaded text icon to create a text frame the width and height of the area you define.
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3 If there is more text to be placed, click the out port and repeat steps 1 and 2 until all text has been placed.
Note:
When you place text in a frame that is threaded to other frames, text autoflows through the threaded frames, regardless of the text flow method you choose.
Flow text semi-automatically
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The text flows one column at a time, as in manual flow, but the loaded text icon automatically reloads after each column is placed.
Flow text automatically
❖ With the loaded text icon displayed, hold down Shift as you do one of the following:
• Click the loaded text icon in a column to create a frame the width of that column. InDesign creates new text frames and new document pages until all text is added to the document.
• Click inside a text frame that is based on a master text frame. The text autoflows into the document page frame and
generates new pages as needed, using the master frame’s attributes. (See “ About masters, stacking order, and layers ” on page 70.)
Flow text automatically without adding pages
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Use Smart Text Reflow
You can use the Smart Text Reflow feature to add or remove pages when you’re typing or editing text. This feature is useful when you’re using InDesign as a text editor and you want a new page to be added whenever you type more text than can fit on the current page. It’s also useful in avoiding overset text or empty pages for situations in which the text flow changes due to editing text, showing or hiding conditional text, or making other changes to the text flow.
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.
Smart Text Reflow settings appear in Type preferences. These settings apply to the current document. To change default settings for all new documents, close all documents and specify the settings.
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Choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or InDesign OS).
Select Smart Text Reflow.
3 Select any of the following options and then click OK.
Add Pages To Use this option to determine where the new page is created. For example, suppose you have a three-page document with text frames on the first two pages and a full-page graphic on the third page. If you’re typing to the end of page two, you can determine whether the new page is added before or after the full-page graphic on the third page.
Choose End Of Story to add a new page after the second page. Choose End Of Document to add a new page after the page with the full-page graphic.
In a document with multiple sections, you can choose End Of Section to add the page at the end of the section.
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