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A-ha.

Check — with Invisible Characters switched on — for a hard Page break (it looks something like a blue bullet). You can also search-and-replace this code: “^P” with this one “^p” — replacing any Page Break with a simple paragraph return.

It's also possible ID imported wrong Keep With Next settings. Select all of the text, then call up the Keep With Next dialog. If the “Keep With” field or “Start on” fields are empty, there are mixed settings in the text that may try to keep everything together, or force a new page per paragraph. Enter “0″ for “Keep with next”, and “Anywhere” for the “Start on”.

And place your cursor somewhere inside the overset text in the Story Editor and check if all of the text has “No Break” applied to it. If ID cannot break a paragraph somewhere, it refuses to fill any further pages.

(Ed.)

And another one: if the text imports with a *huge* left or right indent value, ID cannot compose its lines either. You'll only have to check the first overset paragraph for this.