Reply To: That was scary! What paragraph style caused entire 388 page document to be invisible?

Amanda said:

This happened to me once, and it turned out that something in the style was making the text too big to fit in any text box in the document — super-large type? leading? paragraph rule? So it traveled forlornly from box to box and couldn't find a home in any of them. If I remember right, even when you can't see it on the page, you can still see it in Story Editor and try to get at it from there. Because of your section break message, this may not be what was happening to you, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

Thanks for replying Amanda. I'm even having this scenario right now in the Index, though in a different way. I placed the Word file of the Index (no columns) into my Indesign CS5. I didn't create columns ahead of time. So when I try to create the columns now, with the index in there, all it does is push everything to the next page, and makes a blank page with columns. Argh.